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.