VeeamOn2020

VeeamOn 2020

VeeamON starts this week, which is Veeam’s annual conference and will be a mix of news and technical learning opportunities. I was lucky enough to attend VeeamON last year and got a lot out of it.

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This year due to the Covid situation they have decided to make it an online event making it more accessible since you can view all the sessions from your home plus even better news it completely free to register.

Similar to a traditional conference it will be a mixture of a main agenda sessions plus breakouts to dive deeper into areas of interest for you.

Some of the sessions I will be tuning into

  • AWS and Azure Backup Best Practices
  • Veeam Backup Ransomware Resiliency Tips: Preparation & Recovery From Experience
  • Version 10: Unleash the Power of NAS Backup
  • 10 Easy Steps To Harden Your Veeam Availability Infrastructure
  • Plus of course the keynote

You can check out the full agenda and breakout session list yourself. VeeamON On starts 17th and 18th of June.

Veeam v10 NAS

Veeam v10 Roundup

Veeam Backup and Replication v10 has now been made publicly available.  The update contains 150 enhancements, let’s take a look at a few of them

NAS Protection

One of the most requested features from customers has been NAS protection, that is now available natively in V10.  The system is software based and hardware agnostic, able to backup SMB and NFS shares.  The NAS feature is also able to backup SMB file shares hosted on Windows systems and NFS shares on Linux servers.  The v10 implementation of NAS backup utilises changed file tracking allowing incremental jobs to backup only what has changed.

Veeam v10 NAS

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Setting up NAS backups will look familiar to those already working with Veeam, file proxies act as the data movers, a new role the cache repository is responsible for the changed file tracking.  Backups can be stored like any other Veeam backup in repositories but can also be tiered to the public cloud for longer term retention

Multi-VM Instant Recovery

Instant Recovery has been available for some years now , this allows the immediate recovery of a VM by running it from the backup.  The updated VM Instant Recovery enhances performance by methods including caching to RAM and read ahead.  A knock on impact of this enhanced performance has been that multiple VM’s can now be instantly recovered in a single operation.

vSphere Any Backup Restore

It is now possible to restore any backups to your vSphere environment no matter what format the original backup was.  This for example allows you to restore backups of physical servers, Hyper-V VM’s or cloud backups to vSphere.

Veeam Cloud Tier

Veeam 9 update 4 added a move functionality to a cloud based capacity tier, this allowed older data to be aged off to the capacity tier. v10 adds a “copy” feature which allows backups to be copied to object storage as soon as the original backup is created. This allows data to be copied offsite for redundancy purposes and as the capacity tier is S3 object based this also acts as a secondary format to store backups.

Ransomware Protection

Given recent high profile ransomware cases v10 now offers the capability to store data online but in an immutable format to prevent attacks.  It is based on the new Veeam cloud tier copy facility, plus the immutable data option for S3. Once the data has been copied to S3 with the immutable option for S3 set it cannot be changed for the length of time specified, protecting backup data from any kind of change be that accidental, ransomware or a rouge admin.

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Linux Proxies

There is now greater flexibility for environments that favour Linux, allowing the deployment of backup proxies that are Linux based.

Vendor Integration

Good news for those using HPE storage, Primera is added as a supported primary storage array allowing all storage snapshot integration capabilities.  StoreOnce also added for support for catalyst copy.

Checkout this podcast with Rick Vanover and Calvin Zito for the full story on Veeam v10 and HPE integration.

To see all the new features check out the v10 what’s new document

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VeeamON Virtual

VeeamON virtual is due to hit screens near you shortly.  VeeamON is an online webinar held annually by Veeam covering data management tips and tricks, industry trends plus the latest product updates. The online webinar format makes it handy to fit around your work day, but like a transitional conference there will be a number of learning tracks available: Business, Technical or Cloud.

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My picks for the sessions to watch will include:

Veeam predictions 2020 – Backup used to be boring, not now with an ever changing landscape of multi-cloud and massive data growth, I will be tuning into this one to see what Veeam thinks is around the corner.

Designing for Veeam at scale – Organisations are facing increasing volumes of data, so how do you scale Veeam infrastructure when your environment runs into thousands of VMs.  This session provides best practices to ensure your infrastructure scales

Winning the war on ransomware – Backup is part of your defense– Ransomware continues to be a real threat to businesses, check in to this session to see if your strategy is sufficient to protect your organisation against Ransomware

There will also be chat rooms where you can ask any questions you may have.  I will be helping out in the chat rooms so pop in and say hi.

Registration is free