Veeam: New and Important Features
1. What can we back up
a. VMware Virtual Machines
b. Hyper-V Virtual Machines
c. Acropolis Hypervisor (Prism)
d. NAS File Shares
e. Windows and Linux Agents (Physical and Virtual Machines)
2. VM Backups are image based but still allow object restores
a. Application Aware Processing
b. Guest Indexing
3. Agent Backups
a. Windows and Linux
b. Physical Machines
c. Cloud Hosted Machines
d. Agents can be remotely installed, managed and upgraded
4. Backup File Shares
a. SMB and NFS
5. Recovery
a. Instant Recovery
b. Full Recovery
c. Bare Metal Recovery
d. Cross Platforms
e. Application Item Recovery
i. Explorers
ii. Instant File Level Recovery
6. Backup Copy
a. Offsite
b. Long Term Archiving
7. Replication
a. Onsite
b. Offsite
8. Scale out Backup Repository
a. Local and Object based Storage
b. Can automatically offload old backup chains to object storage
c. Can automatically copy all backups to object storage
9. Recoverability Testing
a. Sure Backup
b. Sure Replica
10. Enterprise Manager
a. Delegated restore rights via simple web interface
b. Allow Help Desk to do user restores
c. Allow DBAs to restore Databases
11. Veeam One
a. Part of the Veeam Availability Suite
b. Advanced Monitoring and Reporting Capabilities