image While completing the beta process before releasing Veeam Backup & Replication v6, we compiled a list of new v6 features and enhancements—a total of 72! Version 6 will be released very soon, officially this quarter; but the excitement is building by the minute!

Although that earlier list is now public in the What’s New document, we wanted to show this in another way. We decided to create a numbered list for a better look at v6 features and enhancements: a 30,000-ft. view from the top. 

WOW! What a list!

Here is the list of Veeam Backup & Replication v6 new and improved features (drum roll….):

1. Scalability: Dedicated proxy to run backup and replication jobs
2. Scalability: Repository to hold backups and replication metadata
3. Scalability: Dynamic job assignment
4. Scalability: Intelligent load balancing
5. Scalability: Windows target support
6. Scalability: Multiple vPower repositories
7. Scalability: Multiple user Veeam console connections
8. Scalability: Log collection wizard
9. Replication: Leverage hot-add for disk writes
10. Replication: Replication can target a cluster object
11. Replication: Proxy to proxy compression (up to 10x improvement)
12. Replication: Multi-select operations for multiple VM failover
13. Replication: Enhanced job configuration
14. Multi-hypervisor support: Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere
15. Multi-hypervisor support: Easy license exchange for different hypervisors
16. Multi-hypervisor support: Dedicated Hyper-V off host proxy
17. Enterprise Manager: Job editing
18. Enterprise Manager: Job cloning
19. Enterprise Manager: FIPS compliance
20. Enterprise Manager: Improved interface design
21. 1-Click File Restore
22. File restore operator role
23. Traffic throttling
24. Improved domain controller handling
25. More efficient CPU usage for backup jobs
26. Multiple TCP/IP connections per job
27. Optimization for WAN transfers
28. Source data retrieval optimizations
29. Exclude virtual machine swap file
30. Enforceable backup window
31. Simultaneous backup and replication jobs now permitted
32. Backup mapping from existing backup file
33. Backup metadata file for quick foreign imports
34. Enhanced backup format file
35. Backup data file alignment to 4K on writes
36. Write enhancement for deduplication targets
37. 2-proxy replication architecture
38. Replication state protection
39. Improved job reports
40. Wizard navigation improvements
41. 1-Click automated failback for replication jobs
42. 1-Click permanent failover for replication jobs
43. Active rollbacks of replication jobs
44. Improved replica seeding
45. Replica mapping
46. Re-IP for replicated VMs
47. Full support for distributed virtual switches with backup and replication
48. Automatic replication job update on failover or failback
49. Additional replication job options
50. Veeam Quick Migration
51. SmartSwitch migration cutover
52. Instant VM Recovery migration
53. Individual file copy
54. 1-Click full VM restore
55. Virtual disk restore option to inventory on existing VM
56. Thin disk support for VM file level restore
57. Hot-Add restore
58. Hot-Add replication
59. Multiple VM restore
60. Network mapping on restore wizard
61. VM managed object reference preservation on restore
62. User profile indexing
63. Support for GPT and simple dynamic disks
64. NTFS permission preservation on guest file restores
65. Optional search server for less than ~100 VMs
66. Smaller guest index catalog size
67. Real-time statistics improvements
68. Job bottleneck monitor
69. Loss of VM warning for removed VMs
70. Support for unmanaged VMware Tools installations
71. PowerShell extended to support new v6 functionality and objects
72. 1-Click automatic upgrade for proxies and repositories

How cool is that! Are you curious about Veeam Backup & Replication v6? Check out Veeam’s series of webinars, with VMDoug and Gostev!

Which v6 features are you most excited about? Share your feedback below.