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….):
- Scalability: Dedicated proxy to run backup and replication jobs
- Scalability: Repository to hold backups and replication metadata
- Scalability: Dynamic job assignment
- Scalability: Intelligent load balancing
- Scalability: Windows target support
- Scalability: Multiple vPower repositories
- Scalability: Multiple user Veeam console connections
- Scalability: Log collection wizard
- Replication: Leverage hot-add for disk writes
- Replication: Replication can target a cluster object
- Replication: Proxy to proxy compression (up to 10x improvement)
- Replication: Multi-select operations for multiple VM failover
- Replication: Enhanced job configuration
- Multi-hypervisor support: Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere
- Multi-hypervisor support: Easy license exchange for different hypervisors
- Multi-hypervisor support: Dedicated Hyper-V off host proxy
- Enterprise Manager: Job editing
- Enterprise Manager: Job cloning
- Enterprise Manager: FIPS compliance
- Enterprise Manager: Improved interface design
- 1-Click File Restore
- File restore operator role
- Traffic throttling
- Improved domain controller handling
- More efficient CPU usage for backup jobs
- Multiple TCP/IP connections per job
- Optimization for WAN transfers
- Source data retrieval optimizations
- Exclude virtual machine swap file
- Enforceable backup window
- Simultaneous backup and replication jobs now permitted
- Backup mapping from existing backup file
- Backup metadata file for quick foreign imports
- Enhanced backup format file
- Backup data file alignment to 4K on writes
- Write enhancement for deduplication targets
- 2-proxy replication architecture
- Replication state protection
- Improved job reports
- Wizard navigation improvements
- 1-Click automated failback for replication jobs
- 1-Click permanent failover for replication jobs
- Active rollbacks of replication jobs
- Improved replica seeding
- Replica mapping
- Re-IP for replicated VMs
- Full support for distributed virtual switches with backup and replication
- Automatic replication job update on failover or failback
- Additional replication job options
- Veeam Quick Migration
- SmartSwitch migration cutover
- Instant VM Recovery migration
- Individual file copy
- 1-Click full VM restore
- Virtual disk restore option to inventory on existing VM
- Thin disk support for VM file level restore
- Hot-Add restore
- Hot-Add replication
- Multiple VM restore
- Network mapping on restore wizard
- VM managed object reference preservation on restore
- User profile indexing
- Support for GPT and simple dynamic disks
- NTFS permission preservation on guest file restores
- Optional search server for less than ~100 VMs
- Smaller guest index catalog size
- Real-time statistics improvements
- Job bottleneck monitor
- Loss of VM warning for removed VMs
- Support for unmanaged VMware Tools installations
- PowerShell extended to support new v6 functionality and objects
- 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.
