What’s Special About the RHV Plug‑In

• Agentless VM protection using native RHV snapshot mechanisms.

• Unified workflow inside Veeam Backup & Replication — backup policies, repositories, immutability and encryption all work identically to VMware/Hyper‑V/AHV/Proxmox/HyperCore.

• Cross‑platform restores: recover RHV VMs into VMware, Hyper‑V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Scale Computing HyperCore, and major cloud platforms.

• Application‑aware processing for supported guest OSes via in‑guest Veeam capabilities.

• Veeam Explorers for app‑item recovery (AD, SQL, Oracle, Exchange, SharePoint, PostgreSQL).

• Modular worker‑node architecture to offload snapshot and data‑processing tasks.

Key Capabilities

• Agentless Image‑Level Backups

1. Supports full and incremental VM backups stored in any Veeam repository.
2. Uses RHV/oVirt snapshot APIs for crash‑consistent or app‑consistent backups.
3. Supports VeeamZIP for on‑demand backups.

• Backup Chain Support

1. Forever‑Forward Incremental
2. Forward Incremental with active or synthetic full backups

These methods ensure storage‑efficiency, predictable retention, and simplified long‑term backup chain management.

• Flexible Restore Options

1. Restore RHV VMs back into RHV/oVirt environments.
2. File‑level restore for Windows & Linux guests.
3. Application‑item restore via Veeam Explorers (Exchange, SQL, Oracle, SharePoint, PostgreSQL, AD).

• Cross‑Platform Restore Options Restore RHV VM backups to:

1. VMware vSphere
2. Microsoft Hyper‑V
3. Nutanix AHV
4. Proxmox VE
5. Scale Computing HyperCore
6. Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine

• Instant Recovery Boot RHV backups instantly on:

1. vSphere
2. Hyper‑V
3. Nutanix AHV

• Worker‑Node Processing Architecture

RHV protection relies on Veeam’s worker‑based model:

1. Workers handle virtualization‑layer snapshot processing.
2. Workers handle data extraction and transport.
3. Workers scale horizontally to meet performance needs.

This ensures optimal throughput and parallelism in environments with many VMs.

• Storage, Immutability & DR Features

1. Store RHV backups on hardened Linux repositories with immutability.
2. Use Object Lock with S3‑compatible storage for ransomware safety.
3. Backup Copy + archive tier for DR and long‑term retention.

Deployment & Compatibility

Supported Veeam Versions 

Official plug‑in versions:

• v13 Plug‑In Family — included with Veeam Backup & Replication 13.0.1+

• v12 Plug‑In Family — independent download for VBR 12.3.x

Installation Notes

• Installed on the backup server (Windows‑based).

• Requires .NET Core runtime (installer handles this).

• May be bundled with VBR or installed manually from Veeam “Additional Downloads → Virtualization Plug‑Ins”.

Adding RHV to the Veeam Infrastructure

Same flow as other plug‑ins:

• Add RHV environment via API connection.

• Deploy workers to RHV hosts.

• Assign repositories and create backup jobs. (Matches configuration pattern shown for Scale/HyperCore plug‑in but structurally identical across RHV/OLVM family.)

Business Impact

• Modernize or replace VMware without losing enterprise‑grade backup capabilities — Veeam stays the central platform.

• Gain cross‑platform mobility to move workloads between RHV, VMware, Hyper‑V, AHV, Proxmox, HyperCore, or into the cloud.

• Improve ransomware resilience with hardened/immutable repositories and multi‑site DR.

• Standardize operations by using Veeam’s unified backup engine, job management, reporting, and monitoring across all hypervisors.

Bottom Line