It was some time ago when Veeam released the last major update for its Backup & Replication 9.5; update 3 was released back in December. While the company used its annual event, VeeamON, to showcase its upcoming update 4, the update is not slated until later this year. The rest of the industry is changing still and Veeam is responding to these changes through a smaller update 3a released this week. This smaller release focusing on both new features as well as more platforms supported.
Most notably, this provides support for the new VMware vSphere 6.7 within their 90 day window from its release on April 21st. Vembu BDR Suite was the first backup vendor to support VMware vSphere 6.7 with their June 19threlease. Update 3a also provides preliminary support for VMware vSphere 6.5 U2, with Veeam expecting to provide full support once VMware addresses a known issuein the API Veeam depends on. In addition to supporting the new vSphere versions, this update also brings improved performance with vSphere.
The full list of new platforms supported is:
Update 3a brings improvements for Microsoft users too. In addition to the new platforms supported listed above, Veeam Backup & Replication now supports Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure for environments with ExpressRoute or site-to-site VPN connectivity to Azure. Direct restore on Azure should also now process Linux machines with EFI boot more reliably. Critically, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows’ jobs should no longer fail when the backup server uses a custom certificate. Veeam has also tweaked Windows file level recovery (FLR) to now process large numbers of NTFS reparse points faster and more reliably.
There are a number of other minor enhancements as well. You can find the full list in the release notes link below, as well as the link to download the update.
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