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If you’re a Veeam ProPartner then you should have received this update already but I wanted to get this out there for the rest of the world. As we move towards the next release of Veeam Backup & Replication which will include SureBackup, you will start to notice that we will have 2 versions, Standard and Enterprise. The idea behind offering 2 versions is to give customers a choice when purchasing, they may not want all of the features that will be included with Enterprise (at a higher price point). So what does that mean for current customers? Will they get Standard or Enterprise if they’re current on maintenance? They answer is the choice is yours! Yes, for a limited time Veeam will be offering customers current on maintenance the choice of Veeam Backup & Replication 5.0 Standard or Enterprise once it’s released. This means that all of our current customers can rest easy and know that they’ll have the option of getting all the great new Virtualization-Powered Protection features that will be released later this year. Of course anyone who’s not a current customer but purchases Veeam Backup & Replication by 18 June 2010 will also be eligible for this offer. If you’re not familiar with the put on by and , be sure to check out Episode 6: “The Mean Green Veeam Team”, also available on iTunes. Rich and Mark invited and myself on to talk a little about Veeam and the virtualization market in general. I made an announcement about this offer on the podcast (right around 6:12).
What’s the difference?
While the exact details of the release a still being worked out, the table below details functionality that we know at this time to be included in Standard and Enterprise. You can also register for the upgrade here (along with more details on the offer): http://www.veeam.com/go/free-enterprise-upgrade| Feature | Standard | Enterprise | Notes |
| Data Protection Modes | |||
| Backup | |||
| Replication | 2-in-1: backup and replication for one price, in one cohesive solution; includes replica rollback and replication to/from ESXi | ||
| Hot VM copy | Facilitates ad hoc backups and migrations | ||
| FastSCP™ | Integrates Veeam FastSCP, the #1 file management tool for VMware administrators, into the operator console | ||
| Architecture | |||
| vStorage APIs | Highly efficiency and “future-proof” solution that uses the vStorage APIs for Data Protection | ||
| Changed Block Tracking | Lightning-fast incremental backups to minimize backup windows and allow for more frequent replication | ||
| Multiple backup options | Back up directly from SAN, over LAN, with virtual appliance, or direct from target | ||
| Centralized control of distributed deployment | Includes Enterprise Manager, a web-based console that provides a consolidated view of your distributed deployment; includes federation of multiple backup servers, centralized reporting, and consolidating alerting | ||
| FastSCP | Leverages Veeam’s proven FastSCP engine | ||
| Synthetic backup | Eliminates the need for periodic full backups (provides “forever incremental” backup), thus saving time and space | ||
| SmartDedupe™ | 10x space savings on backup storage | ||
| SmartCDP™ | Near-continuous data protection (near-CDP) at a fraction of the cost of traditional CDP | ||
| Instant File-Level Recovery | |||
| Windows | |||
| Linux | |||
| Other | Unix, Solaris, BSD, Mac | ||
| Indexing and Search | |||
| Windows guest file system indexing | Creates an index (catalog) of all Windows guest files that have been backed up | ||
| Search across backups | Current backups | All backups (current & archived) | Quickly search for guest files across backups |
| SureBackup™ | |||
| Recovery verification | Manual | Automated | |
| Advanced VSS support | |||
| Application-Item Recovery | |||
| Universal application-item recovery | OS- and application-agnostic object-level recovery for application administrators | ||
| User-directed recovery | Available for any application with a web front-end |
