Today Veeam made Generally Available Update 4 for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 ( Build 9.5.4.2615 ) and with it comes a ton of very anticipated new features and enhancements. Don’t let the Update part fool you…this is a very significant release for us and is worthy of a full new version release. There is a huge focus on cloud and service providers in Update 4 and in my opinion this release contains some of the most innovative technology we have released in years.

Together with Update 4 we have also released:

Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 4

Veeam Agent for Windows 3.0

Veeam Agent for Linux 3.0

As mentioned Update 4 is a significant update and contains a number of enhancements and fixes with a lot of those enhancements aimed at improving the scalability of our flagship Backup & Replication platform. However it’s the new features of the platform that steal the show.

The biggest and most anticipated feature is Cloud Tier…which is an extension of the Scale Out Backup Repository that takes advantage of Object Storage which ultimately looks to increase the scalability of backup repositories while reducing a lot of the headaches that come with managing the ever increasing growth of data. Note that this isn’t an archive solution…we have extended SOBR to be a tiered storage platform that intelligently moves blocks of data from local to offsite storage and back

Next, we have extended our Direct Restore technology to now enable recovery of workloads into Amazon EC2 and Azure Stack. The Amazon EC2 restore functionally has been eagerly anticipated and it works towards achieving our goal of enabling our customers with Cloud Mobility. Together with N2WS, we now can complete the loop (albeit through seperate platforms for the moment) for the backup and recovery of EC2 workloads. Cloud Mobility also allows for the migration of workloads between platforms

Further to those headline features we have added offical support for vSphere 6.7 Update1 and vCloud Director 9.5 as well as Windows Server 2019.

Below are the other major features and enhancements included in Update 4.

vCloud Director Support for Cloud Connect Replication

Gateway Pools for Cloud Connect

Veeam Datalabs Enhancements

vSphere RBAC Self Service Portal

External Repository for N2WS

Tape Enhancements

Oracle RMAN Plugin

SAP Hana Plugin

Veeam Explorer Updates

When is comes to the agents you can now do backup mapping for seeding and restore from backup copies. For VMware there is a significant fix for a condition which reset CBT data for all disks belonging to a VM rather than just the resized disk and there is support again for non encrypted NDB transport.

With regards to the new features and enhancements for VCSPs…as listed above, there are some huge additions in Update 4 which is worthy of a What’s In it For Service Provider Post. i’ll put that together over the next few days and I will be deep diving into a number of features over the upcoming weeks. I did touch on a few of them in the Update 4 RTM post here.

For a full list check out the release notes below and download the update here.

References:

https://www.veeam.com/kb2878

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