Veeam: Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0 Update 1

La semana pasada Veeam liberaba el Update 1 para la nueva versión de Veeam Backup & Replication v9, este Update 1 contiene más de 300 mejoras y cómo siempre en Veeam, han solucionado muchas incidencias que los clientes habían reportado o estaban demandando en el producto.

Os dejo aquí algunas de las mejoras más importantes, aunque aquí podéis ojear el listado completo en las Release Notes

Os dejo un breve vídeo donde se ve el proceso de actualización en una VM donde tengo Veeam Backup & Replication v9 instalado:

General

• Enhanced extent selection logic for scale-out backup repositories with and without per-VM backup file chains enabled.
• Added reversed incremental backup mode support for storage-level corruption guard and backup file compact and defrag functionality.
• Guest Interaction Proxy selection algorithm has been improved to increase proxy selection performance.
• Added support for BitLooker folder exclusion functionality on Japanese and Chinese OS. This requires that the backup proxy used by the job is installed on the OS with the same locale as the processed VM.

VMware

• Storage fingerprint check can now be disabled using SshFingerprintCheck (DWORD) registry value under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication key.
• Datastore based jobs can now be set to not include VMs with mounted ISO residing on the selected datastore. To enable this behavior, create StrictDatstoreScope (DWORD) registry value under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication key.

Application-aware processing

• To increase the chance of Microsoft VSS processing succeeding, the default VSS snapshot timeout has been doubled to 1200 sec. Additionally, VSSGuestSnapshotTimeout (DWORD) registry value in seconds under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication key has been added to allow you to control this value.

Veeam Explorers

• Improved Veeam Explorer for SQL Server startup and restore initialization time on large backup sets.
• Added support for exporting very large PST files with Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange.

User interface

• Improved user interface responsiveness and reduced configuration database SQL Server load in the environments with large amount of backups and replicas.
• Deduplicating storage appliance users will now receive a warning if their backup job or storage appliance settings do not match the recommended settings.

Upgrade

• Console will now auto-update itself when connecting to backup server of higher version by downloading the update package (or updated files) directly from the backup server. This functionality is supported for both updates and hot fixes.
• Network extensions appliances are now included into the existing remote components auto update process (Upgrade wizard), thus removing the requirement to re-deploy them manually.