A couple of weeks ago Veeam Cloud Service Provider would have received an email informing them that Update 2 for Veeam 9 Backup & Replication had been RTM’ed and was available to download for Cloud Connect partners and selected Veeam customers with outstanding support cases. The update introduces a couple of significant feature enhancement for Cloud Connect Replication and a few outstanding bug fixes as well as some updates to the core Backup & Replication product. Update 2 is now generally available and can be downloaded here.

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Unlike previous patch releases services providers don’t have to upgrade right away as no matter what…versions of V9 Build 9.0.0.902 or 9.0.0.1491 are compatible with server or client versions of Build 9.0.0.1715 and vice versa. I’d still recommended that VCSPs upgrade as soon as their change processes allows to gain the extra functionality.

Before heading into the Cloud Connect enhancements and fixes, great news for VCSPs running vCloud Director or/and VSAN, with this update bringing compatibility for vCD SP 8.10 and VSAN 6.2.

General Cloud Connect:

Enhancements include improved cloud service stability under heavy load, license expiration grace period functionality works correctly for rental licenses and licensed VM count is now correctly enforced, instead of issuing errors. Update 2 also introduces usage reporting for rental licenses directly from the user interface. This functionality lays groundwork for automated usage reporting in the future and is to be used as a beta initially. VCSPs should if possible, submit usage reports through the user interface and provide feedback. Automated usage reporting functionality is enabled by selecting the “Update license key automatically” check box in the License Information window.

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Please note that on the first day of the month, each backup server upgraded to 9.0 Update 2 and operating with a service provider rental license will generate a usage report for the previous month. The report is saved on the backup server (or Enterprise Manager server, if present) for your reference. It can be reviewed and modified as necessary in the first 10 days of the month. After that, if the “Update license key automatically” check box is selected, the backup server (or Enterprise Manager server) will send the report to Veeam. See KB article 2144 for more information).

Cloud Connect Replication

Enhancements include support for Planned Failover functionality whereby tenants can now perform planned failovers to achieve zero data loss for when a disaster can be predicted in advance. There is support for the Network Extension Appliances on Hyper-V and the ability to exclude IP addresses in the service provider side NEA firewall. There where a number of issues addressed for both partial and full site failover functionality and the Network mapping functionality now works correctly when VMware Distributed Virtual Switch are in use.

Overall another solid Update from Veeam that further enhances the industry leading Backup & Replication platform and it’s Cloud Connect Backup and Replication technology.

References:

https://www.veeam.com/kb2147