- Veeam provides backup and recovery solutions for virtualized environments without needing agents - Features include application-aware backups, file-level restores, change block tracking for Hyper-V, and SureBackup for validation - vSphere Operations Manager provides visibility into virtual infrastructure health with performance and efficiency metrics - vSphere Flash Read Cache uses server-based flash to accelerate VM performance by caching reads, providing up to 2x improvement - Virtual SAN software-defined storage that pools server HDDs and flash for a shared datastore with policies, resilience, and integration