Veeam Backup Replication V7 Available

Veeam Software, Inc. released the seventh version of its Backup & Replication product.

It has been five and a half years since it released version one.

With the help of our Veeam ProPartners, the company has been able to accomplish in the past five and a half years:
#1 VMware and #1 Hyper-V Backup

Over 73,000 paying customers
Over 200,000 users of our free products
Coverage in 75% of Fortune 500 companies
Fastest growing backup software of all time

Earlier this year it rolled out a new marketing messaging called Modern Data Protection. Modern Data Protection is all about being built for virtualization while being powerful, easy-to-use and affordable. v7 is taking Modern Data Protection to the next level. It represents over 18 months of development effort by R&D team.

Innovation
v7 brings two innovations: Built-In WAN Acceleration and Backup from Storage Snapshots.

Built-In WAN Acceleration was developed work with Veeams’s backup file and data format. WAN acceleration is designed to help save time and money when to get your backups offsite. Additionally, the firm will be bringing WAN acceleration to replication jobs in a future release.

Backup from Storage Snapshots may seem like an ‘easy’ task but once you take a look at what’s required in vSphere, you know it’s not. A standard approach to using storage snapshots on vSphere is to promote the snapshot to a LUN and temporarily attach it to a dedicated host … this operation alone can take up to 5 minutes and your backup hasn’t even started yet. Engineers were able to get around this time-consuming task and further accelerate the backup by being able to leverage some key technology in vSphere.

Features
Veeam announced seven of disruptive features but the What’s New document contains more. It seems that everyone has their ‘favorite’ new feature in v7 although tape support seems to be close to the top for everyone. Veeam been working on vCD support for a while but it was "not quite good enough" to make it into a previous release. vCD support is easy to use. A feature for our Hyper-V customers is the inclusion of Virtual Labs for Hyper-V. Now Hyper-V customers have access to SureBackup Recovery Verification, U-AIR and the On-Demand Sandbox capability that VMware users have enjoyed for 3 years.

Performance
V7 is 1,000x faster than v1. Performance improvements come in different areas in each release – sometimes it’s improvements to algorithms for compression and deduplication, and other times it’s improvements in the virtual infrastructure, like Changed Block Tracking (CBT) in vSphere 4. One performance improvement in v7 is parallel processing within a backup job. Previously, all VMs were processed serially. In v7 they’re processed in parallel and multiple virtual disks on the same VM are processed in parallel. In addition, the company improved its default compression algorithm by a huge factor, meaning you can now process up to 2x more tasks per proxy than in v6. This also means much less CPU load on the proxies. And, backup repositories can now be deployed either 32 or 64 bits. A lot of people were asking for x64 backup repositories to be able to take advantage of larger addressable memory and support much bigger jobs. Speaking of 64 bits, v7 server install is only available in 64 bit. The proxies and repositories are still offered in both 32 and 64 bits.

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