Saludos amigos, Veeam ha anunciado su nuevo Update 4b para la ya longeva versión 9.5 de Veeam Backup and Replication. El anterior update fue lanzado en Enero, con lo que ha pasado un tiempo prudencial para corregir bugs e incluir nuevas funcionalidades.
Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4b ¿qué hay de nuevo?
En este nuevo Update 4b, Veeam incluye soporte para muchas nuevas versiones de Sistemas Operativos, o de virtualización, además de corregir muchos bugs que los clientes han reportado desde el lanzamiento de 9.5 Update 4 y Update 4a.
Como os comentaba, podemos encontrar también un aumento en los sistemas soportados, de los cuales os dejo la lista entera en Inglés:
Platform support
- Microsoft Windows 10 May 2019 Update and Microsoft Windows Server version 1903 support as guest VMs, and for the installation of Veeam Backup & Replication and its components.
- Microsoft Windows 10 May 2019 Update and Microsoft Windows Server version 1903 support by the Veeam Agent for Windows 3.0.2 (included in the update).
- Linux Kernel version 5.0 support by the updated Veeam Agent for Linux 3.0.2 (included in the update).
- Ubuntu 19.04, SLES 15 SP1, RHEL 8 and openSUSE Leap 15.1 distributions support in the Veeam Backup & Replication agent management functionality.
- VMware vCloud Director 9.7 compatibility at the existing Update 4 feature level.
- VMware vSphere 6.5 U3 readiness based on the pre-release build. The official support will still require the full regression testing performed on the generally available (GA) build. This record will be updated with further information and the official support statement based on results.
- VMware vSphere 6.7 U3 readiness based on the pre-release build. The official support will still require the full regression testing performed on the generally available (GA) build. This record will be updated with further information and the official support statement based on results.
Cabe destacar que VMware vSphere 6.5 U3 se lanzó apenas hace unas semanas, y VMware vSphere 6.7 U3 esta misma semana, tener soporte por parte de Veeam para estas versiones tan recientes del hypervisor nos ayudará ha evitar quebraderos de cabeza.
Además encontramos novedades del soporte de aplicaciones, en este caso a nivel empresarial como es mejorad el soporte para Oracle, tanto en Linux como Windows.
Application support
- Oracle 19c on Linux support for RMAN-based and OCI-based application-aware processing, redo log backup and Veeam Explorer for Oracle in most configurations. Due to the recent availability of Oracle 19c, testing of DataGuard and RAC configurations is still being performed. This record will be updated with further information and the official support statement based on results.
- Oracle 19c on Windows support for RMAN-based and OCI-based application-aware processing, redo log backup and Veeam Explorer for Oracle in basic configurations only. Due to the most recent availability of Oracle 19c for Windows, testing of advanced configurations (DataGuard, RAC, ASM, Pluggable DB, flashback, virtual accounts) is still to be performed. This record will be updated with further information and the official support statement based on results.
Mejoras en la integración de Cloud
Veeam Backup & Replication v9.5 Update 4b y superiores actualizará periódicamente la lista de regiones de Amazon AWS soportadas desde el servidor de actualización de Veeam. La lista se actualizará a medida que el departamento de Calidad de Veeam valide la compatibilidad con la nueva región de Amazon. Esta funcionalidad requiere que hagamos click en la comprobación de actualización automática del producto a través de la casilla de verificación Comprobar actualizaciones periódicas del producto y del hipervisor en la configuración de Notificación.
Storage integrations
- Dell EMC Unity OE version 4.5 support.
- The proprietary NFS client has been updated for compatibility with the Western Digital IntelliFlash (formerly Tegile) Universal Storage API plug-in. The plug-in will be made generally available along with the Update 4b release.
Además de todo esto, más de 100 bugs solucionados, entre ellos podemos encontrar lo siguiente:
- Tape virtual full backup reliability and performance, tape drive detection logic, WORM media support and NDMP backup reliability.
- Agent-based backup jobs may create unnecessary full backups under certain circumstances, or fail in the environments with very long backup repository paths.
- Scale-out backup repository race condition causes synthetic backup operations to dead lock when a very powerful backup proxy server is used.
- PowerShell Direct calls may hang under certain circumstances in the application-aware processing logic of Hyper-V backup.
- Veeam Agent for Windows: CBT driver block map reset issue; inability to failover to backup cache when it is hosted on a USB storage; inability to open a support case from the product UI under a restricted user account; improved command line tool for the Recovery Media creation.
- Veeam Agent for Linux: Dell servers with NUMA enabled may crash during the snapshot creation; intermittent backup jobs failures when processing XFS volumes; entire computer backup failure on Ubuntu 18.04 with Intel Software RAID; enhanced encrypted devices compatibility through redesigned device enumerator; CLI improvements for backup scope specification.
- NetApp ONTAP Snapvault retention processing in 7-mode clusters.
- Performance and resource usage optimizations in a number of backup infrastructure components.
Vídeo con los pasos para actualizar Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5.x a 9.5 Update 4b
Os dejo los pasos de cómo instalar la actualización de Veeam 9.5 U4b, además de algunos comentarios sobre las novedades de esta nueva versión.
Release Notes y cómo descargar Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 U4b
Os dejo los enlaces de todo lo anunciado en este último update:
- Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4b (Build 9.5.4.2866)
- Veeam Agent for Windows 3.0.2
- Veeam Agent for Linux 3.0.2
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