HPE Morpheus VM Essentials is a solution focused on creating and managing virtual machines and their backups, while Veeam Data Platform provides the underlying data protection and recovery capabilities. In the video, Richard Wuehler walks through how these two pieces fit together in a practical way: - HPE Morpheus VM Essentials is used to set up and manage virtual machine workloads. - Veeam Data Platform is used to back up those workloads so that data can be restored if something goes wrong. Together, they help you protect virtual machine environments, keep workloads available, and support data resilience as part of your day‑to‑day operations.

In the walkthrough, Richard Wuehler demonstrates how you can use HPE Morpheus VM Essentials to define and manage backup jobs for your virtual machines, with Veeam Data Platform handling the backup and recovery engine behind the scenes. The protection flow typically looks like this: 1. You configure backup policies for your virtual machines in HPE Morpheus VM Essentials. 2. Those policies trigger Veeam Data Platform to create backups of the VM workloads on a regular schedule. 3. If a VM or its data becomes unavailable or corrupted, you can restore it from those backups. This approach helps you: - Reduce the risk of data loss for key workloads. - Shorten recovery time when you need to bring a VM back online. - Build a more resilient environment where virtual machines can be reimagined or rebuilt from recent backup points rather than from scratch.

From Richard Wuehler’s walkthrough, you can expect a practical, step‑by‑step view of how to handle virtual machine backups using HPE Morpheus VM Essentials together with Veeam Data Platform. Specifically, you’ll see how to: - Set up backup jobs for your virtual machines. - Manage and monitor those backups over time. - Use the backup and restore capabilities to protect workloads and keep data available. The session is designed to help you rethink how you manage VM protection by showing a concrete example of how to: - Integrate VM management and backup in one workflow. - Align backup schedules with how your workloads actually run. - Support ongoing data resilience without adding a lot of manual overhead.