Disk content export from agent-based backups now processes multiple disks in parallel, as opposed to sequentially. Double-byte characters are now supported in the virtual infrastructure object names (such as VM name) and Veeam object names (such as job name).
#VEEAM BACKUP AND REPLICATION UPDATE UPGRADE#
With its support by Veeam, you can continue using advanced backup policies based on tags even after you upgrade to vSphere 6.5 vSphere 6.5 introduces new APIs for programmatic access and management of vSphere tags. As part of vSphere 6.5 support effort, we have switched the corresponding functionality to the new vSphere API for guest interaction, so that you can continue using the existing product functionality with vSphere 6.5. vSphere 6.5 discontinued VIX API that previous Veeam versions leveraged for network-less guest interaction for functionality such as application-aware processing. Please expect significant performance impact from enabling NBD compression unless you’re backing up over slow or busy management network. To control the compression level, create VMwareNBDCompressionLevel (DWORD) registry value under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication key on the backup server with value from 0 (no compression) to 3 (best compression). VDDK 6.5 adds ability to enable native NBD traffic compression.
#VEEAM BACKUP AND REPLICATION UPDATE UPDATE#
This update adds ability to process such VMs. vSphere 6.5 introduces the new VM hardware version which increases some configuration maximums and adds ability to add NVMe controllers to a VM. vSphere 6.5 introduces the new VMFS version, and this update allows you to leverage advanced functionality such as Backup from Storage Snapshots and Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots for VMs with virtual disks residing on VMFS 6 datastores. There are no limitations around restores, because backups contain unencrypted VM data (remember to enable backup encryption if that is a concern). Such VMs can be backed up in hot add and network (NBD) transport modes only, with hot add mode requiring that the backup proxy itself is an encrypted VM. vSphere 6.5 introduces VMs with encrypted disks. VMware vSphere 6.5 support (see the next section for details).Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.0 Public Beta (build 2.0.0.594) support.
HPE StoreOnce 3.15.1 support, bringning Instant VM Recovery to Catalyst-based backup repositories.HPE 3PAR 3.2.2 MU3 support, including multiple API interaction improvements for added reliability and performance.Dell EMC Data Domain OS 6.0 support, including synthetic full backup performances optimizations, backup retention and health check reliability improvements.Finally Veeam 9.5 B&R Update has been released, adding support for vSphere 6.5!