One of the most impressive things about Veeam is they do not rest on their laurels.  They continue to advance their offerings and V9 is no exception.

  • EMC VNX / VNXe snapshot integration and Veeam Explorer for snapshot integration
  • Cloud Connect with Replication – support 600 service providers, SSL encryption and fully integrate

 

Primary storage integration

  • Direct NFS access – Veeam Proxy moves data from production NFS SAN
  • Veeam with NetApp –
  • ON-Demand Sandbox for Storage Snapshots (EMC, NetApp, HP) – test updates, troubleshoot issues, train IT staff, Dev labs

Backup Storage Integrations

  • HP StoreOnce Catalyst Integration – 50% faster full backup, 10x faster synthetic full backup
  • EMC Data Domain Boost 3.0 Integration – DD OS 5.6 Support, support DD boost over WAN
  • Other Deduplicating Storage – Per-VM backup file chain for multi-threaded writes, Active Full backup option for backup copy jobs, Instant VM Recovery, file level and application item recovery performance improvements

Veeam Explorers

  • Veeam Explorer for Oracle (NEW) – agentless transaction log backup, log replay for point in tim DB recovery, transaction-level recovery, supports Oracle on Windows and Linux, Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
  • Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange – eDiscovery enhancements include detailed export report on what has been exported from mailbox store, query result estimation based on the selected criteria
  • Veeam Explorer for Active Directory – New recovery options include Group Policy Objects (GPO), AD-integrated DNS records
  • Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server –  New recovery options include table level recovery, SQL objects recovery, leverage a remote staging SQL Server
  • Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint – Full site restore

ROBO Enhancements

  • Standalone Console – Say goodbye to RDP (Microsoft Windows only) no MAC 🙁
  • Guest Integration – guest interaction Proxy
  • File Level Restore – mount server

Tape Support Enhancements

  • Backup to tape jobs using the same media pools can process multiple backup jobs
  • Single media pool can now span across multiple libraries
  • GFS Media Pools -reduced tape consumption with long retention policies

Scale-out Backup Repository (aka – SOBER) – “One backup job to rule them all”

  • Storage system that uses a scaling methodology to create dynamic storage environment that will support balanced data growth on an as-need basis
  • Uses a number of storage nodes consisting of multiple low-cost computer servers and storage components that are configured to create a storage pool
  • The approach is to add storage nodes that work in tandem as you require additional storage resources
  • The scale-out arch is designed to scale both capacity and performance 
  • Dramatically simplify backup storage and backup job management, reduce storage hardware spending, improve backup storage performance and availability

Bitlooker

  • Exclude deleted file blocks in backups
  • Analyzes NTFS MFT to identify deleted data,
  • Source data mover skips blocks backing deleted guest files,
  • Target data mover stores zero block into an image,
  • Reduces size of backup

Useless Data

  • Exclude files and folders from an image level backup

The Scale-Out Backup Repository is the feature that has been missing and I know I could have used this feature a time or two. I would love to see snapshot integration support with DataGravity and Tintri. We are also waiting on another secret announcement that will announced at VeeamOn, stay tuned.