VeeamON 2017 Announcements

VeeamOn 2017 has turned out to be pretty good. There were lots of updates from Veeam and partners that should keep me busy for quite awhile. Here is a summary of some of the announcements from VeeamOn 2017.

Veeam Availability Suite v10 – Built to drive business continuity and visibility by leveraging the "Always on Cloud" Availability Platform to manage and protect the private and public cloud.

Here are a few details:

•  Built-in Management for Veeam Agent for Linux and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows - Reduce management complexity and improve usability through the direct integration of agent management, enabling users to manage virtual and physical infrastructures through the Veeam Backup & Replication console.
•  NAS Backup Support for SMB and NFS Shares - Maintain Availability through the expansion of Veeam’s protected data footprint with file-level backup support for Network Attached Storage (NAS) for SMB and NFS shares. Support includes scalable SMB/NFS backups, flexible data protection through short and long-term retention policies and out-of-place restore to easily restore SMB/NFS files to any target.
• Scale-Out Backup Repository — Archive Tier - Save primary backup repository space and minimize costs while maintaining compliance with the addition of an archive tier for Scale-Out Backup Repository. The new archive tier will deliver storage-agnostic support by enabling the archiving of backups to any storage or media, deliver backup data management by automatically moving the oldest backup files from primary storage to archive extents and provide broad cloud object storage support.
• Veeam CDP (Continuous Data Protection) - Preserve critical data during a disaster and ensure the Availability of tier-1 VMs with VMware-certified continuous data protection to reduce RPOs from minutes to seconds, as well as leverage VMware’s VAIO framework to reliably intercept and redirect VM I/O to the replica without a need to create standard VM snapshots.
•  Additional enterprise scalability enhancements - To save businesses valuable time and improve overall scalability, v10 will additionally feature several enterprise scalability enhancements including role-based access control to establish self-service backup and restore functionality for VMware workloads based on vCenter Server permissions and Oracle RMAN integration, allowing users to seamlessly stream RMAN backups into Veeam repositories and easily perform UI-driven restores from backups using a Veeam console.
• Primary Storage Integrations — Universal Storage Integration API - Extend Availability and improve recovery time and point objectives (RTPO) through primary storage integrations with leading storage providers through a universal plug-in framework enabling select partners to build integrations with Veeam Backup & Replication. New integrated storage solutions based on the API include IBM Spectrum Virtualize (IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and the IBM Storwize family), Lenovo Storage V Series and INFINIDAT.
• DRaaS Enhancements (for service providers) - Service providers can help tenants minimize costs and reduce recovery times during a disaster with new Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) enhancements including vCloud Director integration for Veeam Cloud Connect Replication and Tape as a Service (TaaS) for Veeam Cloud Connect Backups.

Veeam Management Pack (MP) for System Center v8 Update 4 -  Veeam MP Update 4 extends your traditional on-premises System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) monitoring of VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Veeam Backup & Replication environments out to Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) to allow the management and monitoring anywhere, anytime. Veeam MP for System Center provides integration, monitoring, advanced reporting and detailed topology features for virtualized environments, including the virtual machines, the physical hosts and the associated network and storage fabric. Veeam MP allows these advanced features to be leveraged across multiple System Center components, including: System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Orchestrator (SCORCH), Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and Service Manager (SCSM).

Veeam Availability for AWS - (delivered through a Veeam and N2WS strategic partnership) is a cloud-native, agentless backup and Availability solution designed to protect and recover AWS applications and data. With this solution, companies can mitigate the risk of losing access to applications and they are ensured protection of their AWS data against accidental deletion, malicious activity and outages.

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows - Now available. Based on Veeam Endpoint Backup Free and includes two editions — workstation and server. With this solution, you get complete protection for both workstations and Windows physical servers, even those running in the cloud.

Veeam Powered Network - Veeam PN -  A free Software defined network appliance deployed to your Microsoft Azure environment. The idea is to ease the process of network connectivity when moving workloads to the cloud. Once deployed on Azure another virtual appliance is then deployed into your on-premises environments.  From there you would configure which networks you wish to have access into Azure and importing site configuration files that are automatically generated to your remote site. Proving a secured link between sites.

Veeam Backup for Office 365 v1.5 – This release adds better scalability  with new proxies and repositories speeding up backup times.

Veeam Availability Console – Accelerating the migrating, managing, and protecting public clouds. AWS, Azure, and more – workloads, physical severs, and endpoints. With a single pane of glass console, GA expected Q3, but  the Release candidate was launched at VeeamON.

VMware vCloud Director Integration - VMware vCloud Director Integration with Veeam Cloud Connect Replication to reduce daily management and maintenance cost. ,Multi-tenant configuration by using vCloud for Disaster Recover-as-a-Service.

Tape-as-a-Service  - Tape-as-a-Service (TaaS) for Veeam Cloud Connect Backups. Allows for partners to deliver additional ‘tape out’ services to help customers meet compliance requirements for archival and long-term retention. Air-gapped backups protect against ransomware or insider threats, and it acts as an additional layer of disaster recovery protection.

Veeam Cloud and Service Provider Directory - free online platform for Veeam customers and partners who are looking for a cloud or service provider in their area who offers services using Veeam products.

Nimble Secondary Flash Arrays – Nimble announced a Secondary Flash array that combines flash, deduplication, and Predictive Analytics. The result: a secondary storage array that lets you run real workloads. You get fast flash performance, high effective capacity, 99.9999% measured availability, and simple to deploy and use. Designed to simply and efficiently handle tasks like Veeam backups and disaster recovery, Nimble Storage Secondary Flash Arrays offer the flash-optimized performance to run development/test, QA, and analytics on your secondary data – plus production workloads when needed.

That's all for now. once I go back through my notes I'm sure I will add a few updates!