The 2022-23 DCIG TOP 5 Microsoft Hyper-V Backup Software Offerings report highlights the five best backup software offerings for protecting applications, data, and workloads hosted on Microsoft Hyper-V VMs. Almost every software offering covered in this DCIG TOP 5 report supports MS Windows as a guest OS on VMs, compresses backup data, encrypts backup data and performs VM restores to the same or different Microsoft Hyper-V VMs.

The 2022-23 DCIG  TOP 5 Microsoft Hyper-V Backup Software Offerings report also identifies features that each TOP 5 product offers to differentiate itself from competitors. These distinctions include:

• Licensing options
• Use of various Microsoft technologies to perform Hyper-V backups
• Creating application-consistent backups of various database types
• Support of array-based snapshots
• Restoring and recovering VMs to other hypervisors