Storware Backup & Recovery review
A free hybrid backup platform for VMs, Kubernetes, applications, and bare-metal recovery.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Storware Backup & Recovery is an enterprise data-protection platform for organizations managing virtual machines, containers, private clouds, storage, applications, and endpoints. It is aimed at IT leaders, engineers, and architects working across distributed, multi-hypervisor infrastructures. The platform combines policy-based backup and retention with file-level recovery, disaster recovery, recovery testing, immutable backup, air-gap protection, and bare-metal recovery through Relax-and-Recover. Management is available through a web console, CLI, and REST API, with support for web, Windows, Linux, macOS, self-hosted deployments, and API-based workflows.
Pricing gives smaller environments a clear starting point. The Free plan is a forever-free version supporting up to 10 virtual machines. A 60-day free trial includes all features except V2V migration, with limits of up to 20 virtual environments, up to 20 applications, 2 TB for storage-provider backup, and 2 TB for Windows and Linux file backup. The Commercial plan uses a universal license and quote-based pricing. This structure makes Storware particularly suitable for evaluating multi-workload backup before moving to a commercial agreement, while organizations comparing paid products on published entry prices will need to request a quote.
Its main distinction is workload and infrastructure coverage. Storware supports VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, oVirt, OpenStack, OpenShift Virtualization, and Kubernetes, plus Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, IBM Spectrum Protect, Dell EMC Networker, Dell EMC Avamar, and tape. Application and database backups can use native tools or scripts, while Recovery Plans support scheduled recovery testing. Choose Storware when free VM coverage, Kubernetes protection, recovery planning, and multi-vendor support matter together. A narrower backup tool may suit teams that need only a single workload or prefer transparent commercial pricing.
Storware Backup & Recovery pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Forever-free plan supports up to 10 virtual machines
- Covers VMs, Kubernetes, applications, databases, and bare-metal recovery
- Immutable, air-gap, policy, and recovery-testing capabilities
- Where it doesn't
- Commercial pricing is quote-based
- Free and trial plans have workload-specific limits
- V2V migration is excluded from the 60-day trial
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