DPX 4.16 adds agentless Proxmox VE protection to Catalogic’s enterprise backup platform, giving mixed hypervisor estates a single, proven console for backup, recovery, and ransomware resilience, with no separate tool required per platform.

Why this matters

Proxmox Backup Server only protects Proxmox, and most organizations aren’t making a clean, one-time switch to it. They’re running Proxmox alongside VMware, Hyper-V, or physical servers, often mid-migration, and still need broader coverage than a Proxmox-only tool can provide. Catalogic DPX protects VMware, Proxmox VE, and Hyper-V consistently from one console, so a hypervisor decision doesn’t have to double as a data protection decision.

Two ways to protect Proxmox VE

DPX offers a choice between agentless and agent-based protection, and organizations can mix both within the same environment depending on the workload.

• Agentless covers broad, general-purpose VM backup and restore. There’s no agent to deploy or maintain, file-level recovery runs through vStor Snapshot Explorer, and it’s best suited to VM-level protection across many machines.
• Agent-based goes deeper for critical, consistency-sensitive workloads, with application-aware protection for SQL Server, Oracle, and SAP HANA, plus file-level, block-level, and bare metal recovery.

Technical overview

• A dedicated Proxmox job type handles full and incremental backup to vStor, full VM restore, job scheduling, and node management, all from the DPX web UI.
• The vStor backup target brings ZFS deduplication and compression, immutable snapshots, and replication for disaster recovery.
• vStor Snapshot Explorer restores individual files directly from a Proxmox VM snapshot.
• The agent-based option extends long-term archiving to Amazon S3, Azure Blob, Wasabi, Backblaze B2, or LTO tape.
• The same console also protects VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and physical servers, so Proxmox joins an environment DPX already covers rather than requiring a separate tool.

Summary

DPX brings Proxmox VE into the same protection model organizations already trust for VMware, Hyper-V, and physical workloads, without adding a separate, Proxmox-only tool to the mix. Full and incremental VM backups to vStor cut storage consumption and keep backup windows short as environments grow, full VM restore gets workloads back online when recovery is needed, and job scheduling keeps protection running without manual oversight. Proxmox node management lives in the same DPX web UI as everything else being backed up, and the agentless option runs alongside DPX’s agent-based backup for Windows and Linux guests, giving teams a choice between VM-level protection and guest-level, application-aware backup.

Download the datasheet now to see how DPX brings Proxmox VE into your existing data protection strategy.