To say was a success for Veeam this year would be an understatement. We had record traffic to our booth, record attendance at our party and to top it all off we took home a record 4 Best of VMworld awards from TechTarget’s , including Best of Show. At the booth we were doing live demos of our upcoming Veeam Backup & Replication v5 as well as our Veeam ONE Solution. Below is a collection of pictures and videos, thanks to everyone who helped make VMworld a huge success for Veeam! Of course we look forward to seeing even more people at .
Be sure to check our for a complete collection of pictures from the show floor as well as the Veeam party.
Our CEO, Ratmir Timashev, with our Best of Show award Read more>>
Late last week I was informed that we were ready to go live with an updated video for Veeam SureBackup. In this video we actually show how it works, it’s not just a bunch of pretty graphics. Please note, some of the screens shown in the video may change, this is not the final release:
I'm very excited for the upcoming release of Veeam Monitor 4.5 with Veeam Business View integration. While we released Veeam Business View a few months ago, we are now getting our products aligned with how it works and how it enables you to start taking a "business view" of your virtual infrastructure rather that just an "infrastructure view". Monitor 4.5 will show the Business View tree from within it's interface, making it very easy to set alerts, create reports and in general just see how things are performing based on the business category or group. This includes even setting alerts by service level agreement (SLA) or by application. Virtual Machines are not limited to 1 dimension, they can be in multiple categories/groups. The video below (featuring the voice of yours truly) goes into more detail of what's coming up and shows the power of Veeam Business View along with Veeam Monitor 4.5.
On YouTube:
The best part in my opinion? Veeam Business View is free and Veeam Monitor has a free edition. You'll get all this capability without spending a penny! Of course there are some limitations on Veeam Monitor Free Edition, here's a summary:
real-time monitoring only (24 hours of history)
real-time reporting only (24 hours of history in report)
10 alarms
no alarm modeling
no VM/ESX/VC drill-down (process monitoring/management)
no access to datastore load monitoring (other datastore graphs are available)
Veeam Monitor 4.5 should be available in early Q4, sign up here to be notified.
While there's been a lot of talk this past week on Free ESXi (more on that later) I wanted to take some time and explain the new Veeam Essentials bundle and our reasons behind it. We view our Veeam Essentials bundle as a great entry bundle for the small business just getting into virtualization using . As you may know, VMware has introduced a very attractively priced vSphere bundle called , this gives you vCenter and up to 6 sockets (3 hosts) for just shy of US $1,000. If you think about it, that's a lot of power for not a lot of clams. Think how many physical servers you can virtualize on 3 ESX(i) hosts...way more than 3. For more information, check out
So, for just shy of 1K you get fully licensed vSphere. This is great but it still leaves you without an efficient backup and recovery tool, single pane of glass monitoring or detailed reporting...enter Veeam Essentials bundle...offering Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Monitor and Veeam Reporter for around US $2,000 (Americas pricing). The Veeam Essentials bundle is fully functional licensed versions of those 3 products for 6 sockets (3 hosts).
Of course Veeam is placing some limits on this bundle...
Must be purchased with VMware vSphere Essentials (or proof of VMware vSphere Essentials must be given)
Each bundle will only support 6 sockets. This means that even if you purchase multiple bundles, each Veeam product will only work on 6 sockets, you'll need to install other instances with the other license(s) to manage the other VMware vSphere Essentials vCenters.
Each bundle is 6 sockets, no less (sorry folks, you can't get it cheaper for only 4 sockets)
What does all this mean? For just under US $3,000 (hardware not included) you get 6 sockets of VMware vSphere, 6 sockets of Veeam Backup & Replication, 6 sockets of Veeam Monitor and 6 sockets of Veeam Reporter. That's 3 servers with up to 8 cores (2x4) and 256GB RAM each running VMware ESX(i). Couple that with a free iSCSI solution such as and now you're talking 2 TB of shared data for free (hardware and Windows licensing not included).
I did not include Support and Subscription (SnS) above because for VMware vSphere Essentials it's optional (it's not optional on VMware vSphere Essentials Plus). Veeam's Essentials bundle includes 1 year of support and upgrades in the list price.
Now, let's discuss a few things about the Free Version of ESXi. We've gotten a number of questions on this since we released the "news" and the Essentials bundle on the same day. Below is a simple table explaining what is and isn't supported:
Table of compatibility:
ESX Version
Current Customers As of June 3, 2009
Future Customers
ESX/ESXi 3.x licensed
+
+
ESX/ESXi 4.x licensed
+
+
ESXi 3.5 free
+
-
ESXi 4.0 free
-
-
+ = supported/usable
- = not supported
Now please note that Veeam will not be supporting ESXi Free 4.0 at all. If you're a current customer using Veeam Backup & Replication for ESXi Free 3.x, please contact your Veeam ProPartner or sales person for vSphere options.
While I don't endorse or condone any of the following, I thought I would be doing an injustice if I did not include links to the community's reaction to our announcement regarding dropping ESXi Free support. The list below is just some of the reaction, be sure to read the comments in each as well.
I took a little time today to create a sample video for Veeam's "Win a trip to VMworld San Francisco" video contest. I really hope that our actual entries are much more exciting that this.
Veeam has just announced that we are giving away a free trip (airfare, hotel, pass) to VMword 2009 in San Francisco. I'm really looking forward to the videos that people submit. For contest details, check here.
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