Veeam has made its Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4 available, after it was released to manufacturers (RTM) on December 28th, 2018.
This update addresses several minor issues. However, it also add support for the latest and greatest that Veeam Vanguards and Veeam admins work with… and that’s cool!
Veeam Backup & Replication
Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 offers many new functions, including effectively unlimited scale-out backup repositories (SOBRs) and a new archive tier
Platform support
Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 brings support for:
- Microsoft Windows Server 2019
- Microdoft Hyper-V Server 2019
- Microsoft Windows Server, version 1809
- Microsoft Windows 10, version 1809 “October Update”
- Microsoft Windows Server Core installations (via Managed by Backup Server jobs)
- Microsoft Exchange Server Database Availability Groups (DAGs, via Managed by Backup Server jobs)
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2019
- Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019
- VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1
- VMware vCloud Director 9.5
Secure Restore
Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 introduces Secure Restore. This feature allows organizations to perform an anti-malware scan on the backups they wish to restore, through 3rd party anti-virus integrations.
Microsoft’s Windows Defender, ESET and Symantec Protection Engine are supported out of the box, but any anti-malware solution can be used, when it supports command-line triggering.
Staged Restore
Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 introduces Staged Restore. This feature runs a restored machine directly from the backup file in an isolated data lab environment, for pre-processing, such as the removal of personal data from an application’s database or mask data using solutions as Ekobit BizDataX, before moving the post-processed machine state into the production environment.
Support for Write-Once Media (WORM)
Many enterprise organizations require the use of write-once media. Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 now offers support for this scenario by offering dedicated Worm Media Pools.
Cloud Tier
Veeam Cloud Tier is a new storage tier within the scale-out backup repository (SOBR) — the Capacity Tier — with unlimited capacity for long-term data retention by using native, cost-effective object storage integrations with Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, IBM Cloud Object Storage, as well as numerous S3-compatible service providers and on-premises storage solutions.
Here’s the full story on what’s cool in Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4.
Veeam Agents
All new versions of the Veeam Agents now offer health checks and deleted agent retention. In addition to that, Veeam Agents now offer two backup job types:
- Managed by Agent
- Managed by Backup Server
Veeam Agent for Windows 3.0
The Veeam Agent for Windows version 3 adds support for:
- Microsoft Windows Server 2019
- Microsoft Windows Server, version 1809
- Microsoft Windows 10, version 1809 “October Update”
- Microsoft Windows Server Core installations
- Microsoft Exchange Server Database Availability Groups (DAGs)
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2019
- Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019
Note:
Server Core installations and Exchange Server Database Availability Groups are only available through Managed by Backup Server jobs
In addition to the extended platform support, version 3 of the Veeam Agent for Windows also now supports multiple jobs, network throttling, file level restore enhancements, and integration with Windows’ Action Center.
Click here for everything that’s cool in Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 3.0.
Veeam Agent for Linux 3.0
Version 2 of Veeam’s Agent for Linux was the first version of the product to be manageable through Veeam Availability Suite. This allows you to streamline the discovery, deployment and centralized management of these agents.
Now, with version 3 of the Veeam Agent for Linux, support is added for the following distributions:
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.6 6.10
- Oracle Linux (RHCK) 7.6 6.10
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Edition (SLES) 15
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Edition (SLES) 12 Service Pack 4
- CentOS 7.6 6.10
- Debian 8.11
- Debian 9.5
- Debian 9.6
- Ubuntu 18.10
- openSUSE Leap 15
- Fedora 29
Click here for everything that’s cool in Veeam Agent for Linux 3.0.
Veeam Backup for Office 365
Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v2 has been updated with Cumulative Patch KB2809 that updates the build version to 2.0.0.814. Next to optimizations in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, this update, offers:
- Compatibility support for Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4, including the new versions of Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange and Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint
- Compatibility support for Veeam Cloud Connect 9.5 Update 4
Veeam Availability for AWS
Veeam Availability for AWS is a separate solution within the Veeam Availability Platform, but it is enabled by multiple components, one of which is being delivered in the Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Upgrade 4 release: the External Repository feature in Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4. This feature allows to move backup data from the cloud to on-premises. However, this feature can only be leveraged when Veeam Availability for AWS is purchased.
With Veeam Availability for AWS, Veeam leverages the AWS-purpose-built functionality of N2WS Cloud Protection Manager as part of the platform to:
- Protect both AWS-based workloads and on-premises workloads
- Consolidate all backup data in a single repository with consistent auditing, reporting and alerting
- Enable Veeam Backup & Replication to be used to backup and restore both workloads and create cloud mobility from a single user interface.
Veeam Cloud Connect
Veeam Cloud Connect has been revamped. Veeam Cloud Service Providers (VCSPs) can now align better with VMware vCloud Director on top of the functionality for VMware vCenter and Microsoft Hyper-V.
Tenant to tape
Veeam Cloud Connect now offers Tenant to Tape. This way, Veeam Cloud Connect Service Providers can offer Tape-as-a-Service to their customers to provide an additional tier of protections.
This feature requires backups made with Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4, or up, since it won’t work with older backup files.
Veeam Availability Orchestrator
Version 2 of the Veeam Availability Orchestrator expands on the functionality of Version 1, by offering Restore Plans, enhanced reporting and RTO/RPO tracking in localized languages, Site Scopes for roles and permissions, and Virtual Machine Console Access right from the Orchestrator Web User Interface.
Veeam ONE
Veeam ONE version 9.5 Update 4 offers a new Business View, Veeam Intelligent Diagnostics (VID), Remediation Actions and App-level Monitoring.
Additionally, monitoring of Veeam Agents is dramatically improved in this version of Veeam ONE, offering more direct views on the status and backup locations of agents.
Click here to see all of What’s New in Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 4.
Concluding
Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4 offers new features for admins of networking infrastructure to cope with the high demands organizations face in terms of regulatory compliance and data.
Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4 should be on your update list, despite Veeam announced Veeam Availability Suite 10 for next year.
The post Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4 is now available. Here’s how cool it is. appeared first on The things that are better left unspoken.