So, Veeam one of the industry leaders in virtualization backup and data protection seem to be getting closer to the release of there anticipated version 6 of the Veeam Backup and Replication. They've released the official What's New document outlining a slew of enhancements and new functionality that will be included with the version 6 of their flagship Backup and Replication product. It's nothing new, as Veeam have been promoting the functionality of v6 with a series of webinars and sessions in the last few months, but its still nice to have all of these enhancements all combined together in one document.
Needless to say one of the biggest features of Veeam v6 is the Multi-Hypervisor support. As of version 6 Veeam will now support both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V all from the same interface. Since I'm not a Hyper-V user I'll leave it to you to read up on the supported functionality yourself, but I'll touch on a few other of my favorite features below…Keep in mind, I've yet to use to use or see the product, so my opinions are purely based upon what I have seen in the webinars or read, so the final product could differ from what I think it will be like…
Scalability – Veeam has completely redesigned their backup architecture in v6. With that they have the addition of backup proxy servers which offload the backup and replication traffic to the proxy server instead of the actual backup target. This will allow for the use of a load balancing algorithm that splits the load amongst proxy servers, and in turn, allows for more concurrent jobs to run and faster backup speeds. In terms of replication, the on-site backup proxy server can now send data directly to the target backup proxy server, completely bypassing the Veeam server itself.
1-Click Happiness – Veeam has simplified a lot of their processes by creating a bunch of 1-click functionality. Veeam has added 1 click events to their Instant Level File Recovery, Failover, F