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What’s New in 6.1 A technical walkthrough for Veeam customers

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Rick Vanover

Product Strategy Specialist Veeam Software

Chris Henley

Product Strategy Specialist Veeam Software

Veeam Backup & Replication What’s new in 6.1

Rick Vanover, Chris Henley and Vitaliy Safarov

Overview

Released on June 4

9,000+ downloads to date

Good reports thus far

● Read the Release Notes!

● Upgrade Enterprise Manager first

● Stop all running jobs and restores

(including Instant VM Recovery

sessions), and temporarily disable

near-CDP jobs

upgrade of veeam from 6.0 to 6.1 went like a breeze. good job @veeam!

Update #Veeam to v6.1. Really love the new interface. Great improvement for a allready great product.

Upgrade of @veeam B&R to version 6.1 was flawless. Thank you Veeam for such an awesome product!

First upgrade to 6.1 of @veeam backup deployed like a charm.

Just did my first @veeam Zip. One word: splendiferous. A must use product in my opinion.

Upgraded another customer to #VEEAM Backup and Replication 6.1. The new #upgradeinplace procedure works well!

Updated Veeam Backup and Replication to 6.1. Upgrade worked perfectly, like the new UI and Hot-add messages are now info and not warning.

@veeam loving #veeamzip in the new backup and replication product guys

What’s included

The big enhancements

● VeeamZIP

● Redesigned console

● Enhanced load balancing

● vPower for Hyper-V

Lots of other enhancements

New Free Edition mode

All fixes for 6.0

VeeamZIP

Ad-hoc VM backups

● Easy: no need to create a new backup job or disrupt existing job (restore points)

● Compact: compressed, deduplicated, thin-provisioning maintained, only the VM(s) you need

● Portable: encapsulates all virtual disks and configuration settings

Use cases ● Ad-hoc backups: before applying updates

● Archive: before decommissioning

● Copy: to test lab, training center, demo environment, client environment, etc.

NEW!

Redesigned console

Implements Microsoft UX guidelines ● Multiple management trees

● Dynamic nodes

Improved performance

New instant search capabilities

Provides better support for large

environments

Makes room for additional functionality to

be provided in next major release

Enhanced load balancing

vPower for Hyper-V

vPower: patent-pending Veeam technology that runs a VM directly from a compressed and deduplicated backup file on regular backup storage

● Any restore point: full or incremental

● Makes no changes to the backup itself

● Eliminates the need to provision storage and extract the backup

Enables Instant VM Recovery

● Restart a failed VM in 2 minutes or less

● Like a “temporary spare” for your VMs

● Migrate to production storage to complete the recovery

How it works

Compressed/ Deduplicated Backup File

Hyper-V vPower

vPower

Backup storage Production storage

Within 2 minutes!

Migrate to production storage

Other enhancements

See the What’s New for a complete list, including:

● Easily tweak default proxy and repository

configuration

● Shared backup proxy servers and repositories

● Email notification redesign

● Rotating storage support (create full if missing)

● Resume replication after failback

● Guest VM support for ReFS with Windows Server 2012

Veeam Backup Free Edition

New free tool from Veeam, replaces FastSCP ● Free tool for managing VM and host files

● Released in 2006, more than 150K users

● vSphere 4.1 and earlier (no support for vSphere 5, 64-bit or thin-provisioning)

Includes: ● VeeamZIP: ad-hoc VM backups

● Instant File-Level Recovery: restore individual guest files

● File Manager: FastSCP functionality

● Quick Migration for VMware: migrate VMs between hosts and/or datastores

Supports VMware and Hyper-V

NEW!

Free Edition for paying customers

VeeamZIP from your workstation

VeeamZIP backups can be imported into Veeam Backup & Replication

Downloadable restore application

No license key required

How it works, what’s included

Same download/install as Veeam Backup & Replication ● Operates without a license key (or with an expired key)

● To upgrade to full version, simply install a license key

No limit on number of hosts or VMs

Subset of functionality ● Full backups of individual VMs only—no scheduled, incremental or

multi-VM backups

● No VM replication

● No vPower capabilities

● Limited deployment options

Full comparison available at veeam.com

http://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_and_replication-free_vs_full_ds.pdf

Resources

What’s New document

Release Notes

Software download

License management portal

Knowledge base

Veeam Community Forums

Whiteboard session: today @ 2pm ET

http://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_6_1_whats_new_en_wn.pdfhttp://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_6_1_release_notes_rn.pdfhttp://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-backup/download.htmlhttp://www.veeam.com/manage_licenses.htmlhttp://cp.veeam.com/http://forums.veeam.com/viewforum.php?f=2http://go.veeam.com/product-demo-2012-backup-whiteboard-fridays.html

Questions? Comments?

Thanks for coming

See you on the forum!

Rick Vanover

Product Strategy Specialist Veeam Software

rick.vanover@veeam.com @RickVanover

Chris Henley

Product Strategy Specialist Veeam Software

chris.henley@veeam.com @NerdyLikeThat