I have written a way more detailed post on the Veeam upgrade process which you may prefer to read!
I recently upgraded a version 8 Veeam Backup and Replication installation to version 9. These are the notes I took to summarise the process.
Prerequisites
- If you have Veeam ONE upgrade this first
- Download the Veeam V9 media
- Licence file for v9
- Suspend all jobs in Veeam Backup and Replication
Backups
- Run a config backup
- Take a manual SQL backup of your Veeam Backup and Enterprise databases
- Snapshot Veeam backup server VM
Enterprise manager
- Accept licence
- The wizard finds the old version of Veeam. Choose next to proceed with upgrade
- Browse to licence file
- System configuration check. Allows you to install missing components
- Reboot if missing components installed require it
- Rerun setup if it doesn’t start automatically
- Setup should find the existing DB used by Veeam Enterprise Manager. Choose to upgrade it
- Allow upgrade to complete
- Reboot if prompted
Veeam Backup & Replication
- Check Veeam version information and upgrade path
- Run the V9 setup file
- Choose to upgrade Veeam Backup and Replication
- Accept licence agreement
- The wizard finds the old version of Veeam. Choose next to proceed with upgrade
- Browse to licence file
- Setup should find the existing DB used by Veeam Backup and Replication. Choose to upgrade it
- Allow upgrade to complete
- Reboot if prompted
- Launch Veeam console when prompted and allow all the different components such as proxy servers etc to be upgraded
- Optional – install the Veeam standalone console
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