Veeam Backup and Replication 7.0 R2 Update

Veeam Backup and Replication 7.0 R2 update

The recent patch released for Veeam Backup & Replication contains numerous fixes and new features.

Here we give a very brief list of the features which have been introduced and issues which have been fixed. There is also a list of known outstanding issues.

Note

Please confirm you are running version 7.0.0.690 or 7.0.0.715 prior to installing this patch. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam Backup & Replication console. After upgrading, your build will be version 7.0.0.764

New Features

VMware

• vSphere 5.5 support, including support for 62TB virtual disks and virtual hardware v10 virtual machines.
• Support for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 as guest virtual machines (VMs).

Microsoft

• Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and free Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 support, including support for Generation 2 virtual machines.
• Support for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 as guest virtual machines (VMs)
• Support for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)

Built-in WAN acceleration

• Increased data processing performance up to 50% with hard drive based cache, and up to 3 times with SSD based cache.

Replication

• Added ability for source and target proxy servers to reconnect and resume replication when network connection between source and target site drops for a short period of time.

Tape

• Added support for a number of enterprise-class tape libraries.
• Support for a number of IBM and Oracle tape libraries added.

Resolved Issues

These are the following areas where resolutions to issues have be addressed. A link to a more detailed list is avaliable below.

• Engine
• VMware
• Hyper-V
• Application-aware processing
• Backup Copy
• File level recovery
• Guest file system indexing
• 1-Click VM Restore
• Built-in WAN Acceleration
• Backup from Storage Snapshots
• Tape
• File Copy
• SureBackup
• Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange
• Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint

Known Issues

There are still some general issues and more in the following areas.

• vSphere 5.5
• Hyper-V 2012 R2
• Windows Server 2012 R2

Please vists the Veeam knowledge base for the full article.

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By Mark Donegan