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A: The short answer is you should still back up the virtual machine! The reason is that all data protection systems seek to eliminate the two critical challenges of downtime, and data loss. Each problem costs the business lots of money. In the IT industry the goals of limiting, or even eliminating, data loss and down time are referred to as Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) (for data loss), and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) (for downtime.) Replication makes a copy of a running virtual machine and then synchronizes updates from that running VM at regular intervals so that the replica is ready to run with the most current information should the need arise for a failover. The content of a replica changes with each new synchronization. Failover can take place very rapidly and often results in little to no downtime for the business and a very low RTO.

A Veeam Backup makes a point in time archive of all the files, settings, snapshots, binaries, and configuration files that make up a VM. This archive is stored in a single file (*.VBK) that is often compressed and deduplicated to save disk space. Completed backup files give the business a point in time from which to recover any and all files associated with a VM. If backups are completed with regular frequency they can be very effective at preventing data loss entirely and at recovering data in the event of accidental or purposeful deletion. Backup provides a very strong RPO solution.

There are those who might wish to argue that a good replica could also reduce RPO while also reducing RTO, however because the replica, which is actually a functional set of a virtual machine’s files, is constantly changing with synchronization updates there is never an established point in time from which to initiate recovery. In addition it is important to note that during failover a replica VM is locked to changes and a snapshot is used to enable VM operation while preserving the original state of the virtual machine.

The long and short of it is really pretty simple. Replication is a great way to get reduced RTO. Backup is still the best way to reduce RPO. Use both!

For more information about all things Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 please check out the free E-book from Veeam “The Hands-On Guide to Understanding Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012.”

· Mike Resseler released a whitepaper, “Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager and

· Veeam Backup & Replication – Better Together”. This is also the same theme of our session at Microsoft TechEd North America, which is going on this week in New Orleans.

· If you are going to TechEd, be sure to check out our InfoGraphic of what Veeam has planned for TechEd.

· Doug Hazelman blogged about our latest disruptive innovation, Built-In WAN Acceleration that is part of Backup Copy Job functionality. Now everyone can get their backups offsite!

· Rick Vanover delivered the public Sneak Peek webinar of Veeam Backup & Replication v7, where we had a huge crowd! This webinar is now available for replay.

· Mike Resseler delivered a great webinar on the #1 most requested feature from existing Veeam customers: Native Tape Support. He had a great crowd and this webinar is also available for replay.

· Another one of the v7 features that many people are excited about is Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint. This really makes recovery easy for SharePoint environments, Rick Vanover delivered this webinar and it is ready for replay now online.

· Veeam’s Annual Data Protection Report for 2013 has been released as a free download, you can find out what CIOs find as a priority with Data Protection as well as what are priorities going forward.

· We announced that v7 will include support for Virtual Labs for Replicas, a great way to put your VMware Replicas to work. Hans De Leenheer did a blog post on the topic, we have a video on the feature, and Hans will deliver a live global webinar on the topic also.

· As it turns out May isn’t all about Backup & Replication. Mike Resseler and Alec King presented a webinar to take control of your VMware Capacity Planning needs with the Veeam MP. You can replay that webinar now also.

· Lastly, we have our “Cool” promotion ongoing this month, and the giveaway is just what the aspiring virtualization professional wants: An incredible mobile virtualization lab with SSDs, 32 GB of RAM and all the software you’ll need. You can still register!

And those are just the highlights! Of course, keep engaging with us here on the blog, on Twitter and as always in the Veeam Forums.

If you want to get the raw image of this infograph then go and grab it at: http://vee.am/lsk70

The infographic summarizes all the great stuff that we present to you at TechEd North America.  From 3 break-out sessions, experts at our booth,, an awesome party that we will be hosting.  And I even didn't mention the great give-aways we will be having at our booth!

From funky robots to flashy USB-drives and nice looking t-shirts.  And don't forget our nice price-raffle!  You could win the ultimate storage system for your home-lab!

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MDC-B292: System Center Data Protection Manager & Veeam: Better Together

MDC-B304: Managing Multi-Hypervisor Environment with System Center 2012

MDC-B324: Key Metrics and Practices for Monitoring Virtualization Platforms

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Today we announced 2 disruptive innovations that will be available in Veeam Backup & Replication v7: Built-in WAN Acceleration and Backup from Storage Snapshots.

Over the past few months, you may have seen our announcements regarding the 7 new market-leading features coming in v7; if not, you can check them out here: http://go.veeam.com/v7.

There is tremendous interest in v7, and I wanted to offer some additional explanation here about our Built-in WAN Acceleration.

Built-in WAN Acceleration

Yes, we’re going to be including WAN acceleration in Veeam Backup & Replication v7. This is not a “general purpose” WAN accelerator, but functionality specifically tuned for Veeam data transfers across the WAN. The major benefit to start is that if you need to “copy” your backups to an offsite location, we can determine what data blocks are already there and send less data across the WAN connection. Our WAN acceleration includes global caching, variable length dedupe, traffic compression, TCP/IP optimizations (multi-threading, provisions for high latency links) and resume on disconnect.

By being “content aware” – and with what is effectively an infinite cache (source and target backup repositories) – we don’t need to “learn” and cache traffic patterns like a general purpose WAN accelerator does. This is what makes Veeam WAN acceleration more efficient than a general purpose WAN accelerator.

In keeping with our Powerful, Easy-to-Use and Affordable approach, setting up Built-in WAN Acceleration is as easy as deploying a new WAN Accelerator role (similar to Proxy and Repository roles). You can install WAN accelerators on existing proxies and repositories. Just install a WAN accelerator component at the source site and at the target site, and you’re ready to go. We estimate that WAN-accelerated backup transfers will be up to 50x faster than a traditional file copy across the WAN. Think about how much increasing your WAN connection bandwidth 50x would cost you! With v7 you don’t have to – it’s included with Veeam Backup & Replication!

And if you’ve already deployed a general purpose WAN accelerator, you can configure it to bypass Veeam traffic, thereby freeing up its CPU resources and cache for other traffic.

WAN accelerators in the Backup Infrastructure view

Adding a new WAN accelerator

Configuring the global cache for a WAN accelerator

Built-in WAN Acceleration is a feature of the new Backup Copy jobs. Our customers have told us that they need an easier way to make copies of their backups, whether it’s onsite or offsite. Because Veeam stores backups in a standard file structure, many customers today are using rsync or other file copy tools to make additional copies of their backups. While this works, it’s not the most efficient method and also makes it difficult to maintain different retention policies in the different repositories. The Backup Copy job is meant to solve that, and best of all you don’t need to change your existing Backup jobs – just create a new Backup Copy job. The Backup Copy job is per-VM, meaning you don’t have to copy all the VMs in the backup, and 1 Backup Copy job can copy VM backups from different backups and even different repositories into a single backup file. You add VMs to a Backup Copy job similar to how you add them to a Backup job. The Backup Copy job also has independent retention settings, and you can also specify grandfather/father/son (GFS) policies (yearly, quarterly, monthly and weekly fulls) to meet your long-term backup archiving requirements. A big benefit is that you can keep a small number of restore points for operational restores in the primary backup repository using fast storage, and get the fastest backup and restore performance. And, in addition to that, you can have a long-term repository onsite or offsite on slower storage with low cost per TB (such as deduplicating storage).

Retention policy settings for a Backup Copy job

With our synthetic backup technology, all “full backups” are generated from existing full and incremental backups, so there’s no need to create new “real” full backups periodically and copy them across the WAN.

We’re very excited to introduce Built-in WAN Acceleration in v7. While initially for Backup Copy jobs, WAN acceleration will also be available for Replication jobs in a future release.

“So Microsoft makes Hyper-V Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V?”

“Yes.”

“Hyper-V Server 2012 is a free download, right?”

“Right!”

“So why would I want to use Windows Server 2012 to get Hyper-V?”

The question is a good one, and it has a really good answer. Licensing! Here are the nitty gritty details. First this from the Microsoft Hyper-V Server2012 page;

“Hyper-V Server is a dedicated stand-alone product that contains the hypervisor, Windows Server driver model, virtualization capabilities, and supporting components such as failover clustering, but does not contain the robust set of features and roles as the Windows Server operating system.”

The language is clear that the focus of Hyper-V Server 2012 is to provide the platform components to run virtual machines for Windows Servers that are already licensed. For example if you were consolidating a group of your existing Windows servers with their existing licenses onto the Hyper-V platform it would be in your best interest to use Hyper-V Server 2012. If you were implementing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for your existing Licensed Windows environment then Hyper-V Server 2012 is a great solution because here again you already have the OS licenses. But what if you don’t already have the licensed Windows Servers?

Windows Server 2012 is all about virtualization rights. Both editions (Standard and Datacenter) have the exact same functionality. The only difference between the two editions is the virtualization rights. Windows Server 2012 Standard edition gives the purchaser the rights to run 2 virtual instances of Windows Server, while the Datacenter Edition has unlimited virtualization rights. That’s it. Now of course Windows Server 2012 also has all of the cool roles and features that you can install on the host machine but when it comes right down to it we generally keep the hosts as clean as possible from running additional workloads outside of Hyper-V.

I know someone reading this is thinking, “Couldn’t you run Hyper-V Server 2012 and just buy the Windows Server 2012 licenses?” The answer is; Of course you could. Should you do it? No. Maximize your licensing position by using the full version Windows Server 2012 and add Hyper-V.

Next time someone asks you about Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V, or Hyper-V Server 2012 you can smile and nod your head knowingly and then tell them “It seems to be a question of licensing.”

For more information about all things Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 please check out the free E-book from Veeam The Hands-On Guide on Understanding Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012.

If you thought we would run out of awesome ideas for our solution, think again.  We’re announcing the 7th feature in our Countdown to v7 today: Virtual Labs for Replicas (currently for VMware only).

Our customers and partners have long been asking us to add “SureReplica” functionality - in other words, enable the SureBackup capability for replicas and not just for backups. However, we at Veeam saw a lot more potential for also using replicas to take advantage of resources that are currently being wasted. In v7, we’re taking the SureReplica feature request beyond automated replica verification to provide you with the full range of functionality you’re already leveraging with Veeam backups.

So, the subtitle for this blog post should be: Put Your Replicas to Work! Most of the DR sites out there are idle, waiting for a major disaster to strike. Instead of gathering dust while waiting for the worst to happen, Veeam is offering you a way to actually give those resources value beyond disaster recovery. This time we’re going further. Now we’re bringing all the powerful capabilities of Virtual Labs for backup (SureBackup, U-AIR, On-Demand-Sandbox) to your replicas too.

First of all I should update you on how Virtual Labs for Veeam Backup & Replication actually works today in a VMware vSphere environment:

• A dedicated host for the job is assigned.
• A Standard vSwitch is created on that host.
• A Proxy Appliance (routing engine) gets connected to that vSwitch and to the subnet of the Backup Server, copying the production network at the backend.
• The requested virtual machines are brought online from within your backup files using vPower technology.

In the example of this picture, we are testing the recoverability of the Exchange server. For this we also need a domain controller. (This is just one of the many examples you could put up there, even your own less frequently known applications.) If you look closely at the proxy appliance you will notice that we also have a masquerading network range. Masquerading enables you to connect to VMs within your Virtual Lab from production network, by specifying a production network address. Note that while Virtual Lab VMs will respond to incoming network connections from production network, they can never establish connections into the production network themselves due to the complete isolation.

While doing this we need to keep a few things in mind:

• We are using a part of your production resources for the time that you need the Virtual Labs.
• The virtual lab is tied up to selected host for simplicity and isolation. One of the results is that you will have to turn your Virtual Lab down when you need to put this host in Maintenance.
• Kicking off all necessary machines can still take more time than with your production VMs because on-the-fly conversion of backup files by vPower engine is required, and backup file storage is generally slower than your production storage.

In comes Virtual Lab for Replicas

Veeam Backup & Replication has been designed from the ground up as a 2-in-1 solution, offering the possibility to have a disaster recovery site on standby for you, using the same technology as for backups.  With Virtual Lab for Replicas, not only will you be able to perform automated replica verification (SureReplica), but you can also use your replicas for U-AIR (Universal Application-Item Recovery) and On-Demand Sandbox! So those very few things you had to keep in mind in a production environment have now become irrelevant.  Let me clarify:

• All resources used are DR site resources, so you are not taking anything from production.
• Virtual Lab in v7 now also include support for Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS) to enable virtual labs span multiple hosts (in case your replicas are spread across many hosts)
• Your replicas are already on RAW disk - not in a compressed backup file that requires translation through vPower engine. So both U-AIR and On-Demand Sandbox work much faster than from backups.

Think about creating isolated environments, which are complete copies of your production environment from just a few hours ago,for testing new group policies, troubleshooting DNS or certificate issues, training new hires in a live environment…all these things can now be done on the DR location where resources are now under-utilized.

Conclusion

Virtual Lab for replicas gives you a whole new set of working tools beyond just performing test failovers to verify your disaster recovery procedures and test your business continuity plans.  Try out software updates, OS patches and other changes before applying them to your production environment.  Whatever the reason, with Virtual Lab for replicas, you now have an exact copy of your production environment running on standard hosts and datastores.  How innovative is that!

v7 feature announcements:

If you have been following the Countdown to v7, you’ve seen the blog posts for these other new features: Enhanced backup and recovery for vCloud Director, vSphere Web Client plug-in, Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint, Virtual Labs for Hyper-V, Archive to Tape and Self-service recovery of VMs and guest files (Enhanced 1-Click Restore). If you go to the Countdown landing page now, you will see that we are not quite done yet. The best is yet to come! We will keep you posted.

In this installment of the Content Roundup for April 2013, we have no shortage of things going on with the Veeam Teeam! This is a good time as we are really ramping up to v7 of Veeam Backup & Replication, but there are still a lot of other things going on. We’ve had a number of events, a release of the MP, awesome news and some great product and thought leadership content to share. Just recently we celebrated the 5th birthday of Veeam Backup & Replication on May 2, hence why this post is a bit after the end of the month. Nobody likes someone taking attention away from their birthday anyways, right?

Here’s the roundup from April of 2013:

• The countdown to Veeam Backup & Replication continues, and the excitement continues to build. In April we had three announcements as part of our countdown to v7. We’ve listened; tape support is coming with Veeam Backup & Replication v7. See Mike Resseler’s blog post on the tape support announcement, including some screenshots of the upcoming feature.
• We also announced Enhanced 1-Click Restore (whole VM, files and delegation) and Virtual Labs with Hyper-V are going to be available with v7.
• The Hands-On Guide on Understanding Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 is now online. This is a great resource providing practical tips on Hyper-V deployments and Windows Server.
• Veeam achieved VMware Ready status for B&R! This is a great show of commitment to the technologies VMware and Veeam are providing for virtualized infrastructures.
• Rick Vanover wrote a whitepaper at Veeam.com about data protection challenges when using VMware vCloud Director.
• Update 3 has been released for Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5, you can download the patch at KB 1751.
• Veeam also was awarded two US patents for Instant VM Recovery and SureBackup! These breakthrough features were introduced with Veeam Backup & Replication v5.
• Version 6 of the Veeam MP for VMware version 6 was released. The Veeam Management pack brings app to metal visibility to System Center environments. See the press release here, a video by Chris Henley and lastly a webinar by Mike Resseler on the new release. If that isn’t enough, the Management Pack was featured on Whiteboard Friday with Mike and Veeam Solution Architect Mike Stafford.
• Veeam had a great showing at Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. We showed the new MP and backup for Hyper-V; see the picture album from the event on Facebook.

That is it for now and of course you can keep engaging with us here on the blog, on Twitter and of course in the Veeam Forums.

It's been just over 5 years that Veeam Backup & Replication has been available. The time sure did seem to fly...in 5 years Veeam Backup & Replication now has over 63,000 customers protecting millions of VM's. It's been a great first 5 years and I'm very excited for the next 5. 

I'd like to thank Timothy Lutz and Paul Campanale for providing us with some great feedback. Timothy and Paul have both been long time customers...

Timothy Lutz

System Administrator

Frontier Science Foundation

Frontier Science is a non-profit organization that specializes in data management and statistical preparation for various patient studies across the globe.

We succeeded in virtualizing our infrastructure  several years ago.  Because of the sensitive nature of our business, we have to take every precaution to protect our data.  VEEAM B&R has been a viral part of our backup plan since we first went virtual.  The flagship Backup and Replication product had a few issues when we first began using it, but soon evolved into an extremely solid product.   This has been most evident when using the replication seeding feature over the WAN.

The instant recovery feature sealed the deal for us.  In addition to allowing us to quicky test a backup, it also allows us to easily reference any suspected or undocumented configuration changes. 

We just could not live without VEEAM B & R.

 

Paul Campanale

Systems Administrator

Superior Construction Company

I have used Veeam Backup and Replication for our VMware infrastructure for the last 5 years.  I think I started using your product since it was first introduced.  I have found Veeam has proven itself time and time again and it keeps getting better.  I have successfully restored entire VM’s as well as guest files.  I have created replicas.  Veeam has functioned flawlessly

Great support when I infrequently need it and great product!

I not only would recommend Veeam but I have recommended your product to many coworkers and colleagues.
I honestly cannot offer any areas where you can improve.

Finally, our graphics team put together this great infographic showing the past 5 years of Veeam Backup & Replicaton. It's a bit large, you can also download the PDF version.

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As part of our run up to v7 of Veeam Backup & Replication, we’re announcing a number of new features that will be part of this big release. The latest announcement expands on a v6 feature that solved a big problem for many organizations, you won’t believe what we have in store here!

This new feature centers on self-service for virtualized environments. On demand self-service is one of the key tenets of any public, private, or hybrid cloud. The point is that if a user can service their own needs there will be greater efficiency, greater satisfaction for the user, and less cost to the business. Everybody wins! So how does this apply to the world of modern data protection? The answer, in two words, is 1-Click Restore.

Since version 6, 1-Click Restore has made it easy for users to recover lost or corrupted files. In version 7, we’re extending 1-Click Restore to include self-service recovery of individual VMs!

Veeam Backup & Replication includes a bonus tool called the Enterprise Manager which is installed and runs in conjunction with your IIS web services to provide, among other things, on demand self-service capabilities for authorized users to search for, and then, with a single click, restore files – and soon VMs - from within your backups. The really cool thing is that this is all done from a web based interface that provides visibility of your entire virtual and backup infrastructures.

1-Click restore empowers administrators to delegate permissions in a very granular way, on an as-needed basis, to the individuals who will complete the restore process. It is possible, for example, to delegate permissions to recover files without actually being able to see the contents of the files. Delegations can be made to users which will allow recovery across the virtual spectrum from individual files all the way through to the recovery of the entire VM. The figure below outlines some of the recovery scenarios:

1-Click restore in Veeam Backup & Replication v7 gives you the capabilities you need for self-service recovery:

· An easy interface for finding and quickly recovering individual VMs and guest files

· Delegation settings that control exactly which VMs and guest files users can recover

· The security of knowing you have the ability to authorize user access to only the items that are appropriate

Probably the best part of this new feature is the flexibility it brings. Not only is it available for both VMware and Hyper-V environments; but it also works with all of the different constructs of your virtualized infrastructure. That’s important when it comes to specifying which VMs a user or group of users can perform recovery tasks on. These constructs include clusters, hosts, data stores, vApps, and more; much like the constructs you can use in creating a backup job. In fact, my peer Rick Vanover gets really excited about this aspect of data protection. Check out his post from last year, VM Backups: Forget Me Not!

Enhanced 1-Click Restore is just one of the many features planned for Veeam Backup & Replication v7. You can stay on top of the latest news related to version 7 at: http://go.veeam.com/v7.

We’ve already announced four great new features coming in Veeam Backup & Replication v7. And, we’re not done yet! We’re proud to announce the fifth new feature in the Countdown to v7—Archive to Tape!

If you’ve been using Veeam for a while, you know our focus has been on helping customers realize the full potential that virtualization provides for a modern IT infrastructure. Thus far, we’ve not supported writing backup files to tape natively. However, we heard you in the Veeam Forums, on Twitter and at events, and Veeam Backup & Replication v7 delivers Archive to Tape, giving you options for archiving your backups—disk, cloud and tape.

The new tape support is a great way to make Veeam backups portable and take them offsite. Much like Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition, which allows easy offsite backups to more than 15 different public storage providers, tape support answers the question “How do I get my backups offsite in a cost-effective manner?”

Tape is dead?

If you believe the media, it is. But, based on customer feedback, we know this isn’t true for everyone. Whether dealing with compliance rules, internal policies or if you simply need to archive backups using tape infrastructure you’ve already invested in, these challenges can be solved with our Archive to Tape.

Archive to Tape in Veeam Backup & Replication v7 supports virtual tape libraries (VTLs), tape libraries and standalone drives.

Working with VTLs, tape libraries and standalone drives is easy with v7. As long as the tape device can be seen in Windows Device Manager, it is automatically picked up by our software.

Figure 1: Tape seen in the Backup Infrastructure node (UI subject to change)

Jobs

The new tape support brings two types of jobs: Backups to tape and Files to tape. The figure below shows an internal preview of this wizard-driven part of the Veeam Backup & Replication v7 interface.

Figure 2: Backup to tape wizard (UI subject to change)

Backups to tape gives you the ability to archive Veeam backups produced by specific jobs to tape, or you can choose to archive entire backup repositories to tape. This means you can have multiple backup jobs in your infrastructure and take those, in a single archive, to tape.

Veeam also brings you a convenient scheduling option for backup to tape jobs. This option kicks off the job every time there is a change in the backup files on VM backup jobs. No more scheduling your tape backups—every time you run a VM backup job, the produced backup files are automatically sent to tape. How cool is that!

Files to tape gives you an easy-to-use wizard that allows you to add specific files from Windows or Linux servers (virtual or physical) to tape. As long as the server(s) are registered in Backup Infrastructure, you can place any type of file onto tape. We even leverage Microsoft VSS to place files that are locked by running applications to tape in a consistent state.

We heard many IT administrators grieving about the loss of NTBackup. Because its replacement, Windows Server Backup (WSB) doesn’t include tape support, many of you are missing needed functionality for your organization. Worry not, because Veeam is bringing this functionality back to you with Veeam Backup Free Edition with tape support for file operations at no cost! Free Edition even supports restores from tapes created by NTBackup!

Restoring

Restoring backups from tape gives you the same possibilities as when you recover from disk backups. The backups are recovered to one of your repositories, automatically imported, and from there you can use all our great features such as Instant VM Recovery, Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange and other wizards to perform an entire VM restore and more!

It is important to note that restores are fully integrated to maintain the VM and recovery point perspective. We are not just tracking backup files on tape—we are tracking VMs and restore points to ensure a seamless restore experience. Just pick the VM and restore point, and our solution will do the rest—figure out what tapes are required, let you to load them if they are not already in the library, and then do the restore. Easy! Instead of thinking about backup file recoveries, you can focus on VMs and recovery points exactly as you do today from disk.

The figure below shows an internal preview of the restore wizard.

Figure 3: Tape restore wizard (UI subject to change)

But what if you are scripting guy who hates UI? As always, this feature is PowerShell aware!

Restoring files from tape comes with the same ease-of-use you expect from Veeam. Recover data to its original location or to another server. You can also choose to restore file and folder security, and whether you want to overwrite existing files.

Find out more

Below is a short video with a sneak peek of the new Archive to Tape feature.

Sign up and be the first to know about all the new features coming in v7. And learn more about our already announced v7 features, including:

1. Enhanced Backup and Recovery for vCloud Director
   • Watch the video
   • Read the news release
2. New Plug-in for the vSphere Web Client
   • Watch the recorded webinar
   • Watch the video
   • Read the blog post
3. Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint
   • Watch the video
   • Read the blog post
   • Read the news release
4. Virtual Lab for Hyper-V
   • Watch the video
   • Read the blog post
   • Read the news release