Veeam bets on more VMware alternatives, including Red Hat and China’s Sangfor

Backup software vendor Veeam has thrown its weight behind more alternatives to VMware.

On Wednesday, the company announced both version 13 of its flagship Data Platform product and a plan to support at least 13 hypervisors.

In the first half of 2026, Veeam will add support for XCP-NG, HPE’s Morpheus VM Essentials, Citrix’s Xen Server, and Sangfor. Later in the year, the company will support Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

HPE’s Morpheus is quite new and is yet to achieve much traction. HPE has pitched it as a solid server virtualization platform that suits users who don’t need everything VMware packs into its Cloud Foundation private cloud suite. XCP-NG, a fork of Xen Server, is likewise hasn’t won substantial market share.

Citrix has a substantial installed base for Xen Server, but for years hasn’t suggested it as a host for workloads other than its own ...