Technical Deep Dive – What’s New in v9

October 26, 2015 Veeam

One of the most impressive things about Veeam is they do not rest on their laurels.  They continue to advance their offerings and V9 is no exception.

  • EMC VNX / VNXe snapshot integration and Veeam Explorer for snapshot integration
  • Cloud Connect with Replication – support 600 service providers, SSL encryption and fully integrate

 

Primary storage integration

  • Direct NFS access – Veeam Proxy moves data from production NFS SAN
  • Veeam with NetApp –
  • ON-Demand Sandbox for Storage Snapshots (EMC, NetApp, HP) – test updates, troubleshoot issues, train IT staff, Dev labs

Backup Storage Integrations

  • HP StoreOnce Catalyst Integration – 50% faster full backup, 10x faster synthetic full backup
  • EMC Data Domain Boost 3.0 Integration – DD OS 5.6 Support, support DD boost over WAN
  • Other Deduplicating Storage – Per-VM backup file chain for multi-threaded writes, Active Full backup option for backup copy jobs, Instant VM Recovery, file level and application item recovery performance improvements

Veeam Explorers

  • Veeam Explorer for Oracle (NEW) – agentless transaction log backup, log replay for point in tim DB recovery, transaction-level recovery, supports Oracle on Windows and Linux, Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
  • Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange – eDiscovery enhancements include detailed export report on what has been exported from mailbox store, query result estimation based on the selected criteria
  • Veeam Explorer for Active Directory – New recovery options include Group Policy Objects (GPO), AD-integrated DNS records
  • Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server –  New recovery options include table level recovery, SQL objects recovery, leverage a remote staging SQL Server
  • Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint – Full site restore

ROBO Enhancements

  • Standalone Console – Say goodbye to RDP (Microsoft Windows only) no MAC 🙁
  • Guest Integration – guest interaction Proxy
  • File Level Restore – mount server

Tape Support Enhancements

  • Backup to tape jobs using the same media pools can process multiple backup jobs
  • Single media pool can now span across multiple libraries
  • GFS Media Pools -reduced tape consumption with long retention policies

Scale-out Backup Repository (aka – SOBER) – “One backup job to rule them all”

  • Storage system that uses a scaling methodology to create dynamic storage environment that will support balanced data growth on an as-need basis
  • Uses a number of storage nodes consisting of multiple low-cost computer servers and storage components that are configured to create a storage pool
  • The approach is to add storage nodes that work in tandem as you require additional storage resources
  • The scale-out arch is designed to scale both capacity and performance 
  • Dramatically simplify backup storage and backup job management, reduce storage hardware spending, improve backup storage performance and availability

Bitlooker

  • Exclude deleted file blocks in backups
  • Analyzes NTFS MFT to identify deleted data,
  • Source data mover skips blocks backing deleted guest files,
  • Target data mover stores zero block into an image,
  • Reduces size of backup

Useless Data

  • Exclude files and folders from an image level backup

The Scale-Out Backup Repository is the feature that has been missing and I know I could have used this feature a time or two. I would love to see snapshot integration support with DataGravity and Tintri. We are also waiting on another secret announcement that will announced at VeeamOn, stay tuned.

By Jaison Bailley