Yesterday, Veeam has announces two disruptive features, that we’ve kept in a secret: Built-in WAN Acceleration and Backup from Storage Snapshots.
New feature 1:- Built-in WAN Acceleration
It is 1st backup software vendor to offer built in WAN acceleration for image based backup from Veeam primary backup storage to Secondary backup storage (offsite).
New feature 2:- Backup from Storage Snapshots
By leverage on storage capabilities, Veeam able to reduce backup and replica as often as every 5 minute time. Backup and replica can perform during production hour without any impact to running virtual machine.
Supported storage:-
- HP StoreVirtual + VSA
- HO StoreServ (3PAR)
- Others – coming soon
This feature is available for VMware hypervisor.
New feature 3:- Enhanced 1 Click Restore
Today 1-Click Restore enables fast restores of lost or corrupt data With enhanced v7, it provides ability to self service recovery of VMs and guest files without IT Administrator. Just use a browser and you will be able to recover individual VM and flexible delegation settings for self service recovery
New feature 4:- Virtual Lab for Replica
In today version, this feature only available to Vmware. So sad and unfair. But with the outcoming v7, Veeam going to include support for Hyper-V backup.
Virtual Lab enables
- SureBackup – added for replica. Reduce the risk and make your DR resources work without idle or waiting for a major disaster to strike.
- U-AIR – restore application without agents
- On-Demand Sandbox – allow to setup an isolated environment for testing, patches, troubleshooting, etc
Learn more by check out Veeam Youtube video and blog.
Previous new features:-
- VCloud Director
- vSphere Web Client
- Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Sharepoint
- Virtual Lab for Hyper-V
- Native Tape Support
