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Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 1 released for production

24. January 2017 / Alexander / 0 Comments

Last weekend the final version of Veeam Backup and Replication Update 1 was released.

VMware vSphere 6.5 is now fully supported.

The vSphere 6.5 support adds the following features:

Encrypted VMs support.
VMFS6 support.
Virtual hardware version 13 support.
NBD compression. VDDK 6.5 adds ability to enable native NBD traffic compression.
New guest interaction API support.
New VM tag API support. vSphere 6.5 introduces new APIs for programmatic access and management of vSphere tags.

To get the full list of changes go to https://www.veeam.com/download_add_packs/vmware-esx-backup/kb2222/

I’ve wrote down the few steps to install the update.

Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 1 – Release Candidate availiable

2. January 2017 / Alexander / 0 Comments

At the beginning of the new year Veeam has built the Release Candidate for Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 1.

With this update it is possible to backup VMs running on vSphere 6.5. You have to open a case at Veeam to get the Release Candidate. Remeber: Those updates are only for testing. Productive support will come with the official update!