In April 2018, Veeam released the Universal Storage API which enabled storage vendors like Pure Storage to create integrations for Veeam with their storage system. At a high level, this functionality allows Veeam to leverage storage system snapshots when performing backups as well as take snapshots of volumes for instant restore of VMs or granular file restoration.

In the initial release of the Pure Storage FlashArray plugin, the ability for Veeam to see and utilize existing snapshots on the FlashArray is unavailable. Additionally, it’s not currently possible for Veeam to take snapshots of all the volumes associated with a Protection Group. Joint customers have expressed the desire for this functionality but development takes time.