Veeam Releases Veeam Backup and Replication for VMware version 3.1.1

Virtualization management vendor Veeam just released Veeam Backup 3.1.1, an update that resolves a number of issues reported by customers from the previous version.

The following new feature has been added:

• Added support for replication and remote backup over slow and unreliable links with moderate packet loss.

• .NET Framework bug affecting some non-English locales (confirmed to exist on Norwegian locale) results in sporadic corruption of backup files chain (missing VBK files, extra VRB files).
• Backup file repair after unsuccessful backup cycle fails if backup storage is low on free disk space.
• Network backup in service console agent mode may fail with the following error: “Failed to validate command "dd if="/vmfs/volumes/...”.
• Attempting to enable SSH connection to ESX host on Japanese locale fails with the following error: ["Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture. Make sure "VeeamSSH.strings.ja.resources" was correctly embedded or linked into assembly "Veeam.SSH" at compile time, or that all the satellite assemblies required are loadable and fully signed."].
• Veeam VSS processing fails on specific OS configurations with various “Access denied” errors while specified VSS account has suffient permissions.
• Veeam VSS processing fails on specific OS configurations with the following error: "The specified service does not exist as an installed service".
• Veeam VSS integration does not support guests with Datacenter Edition of Microsoft Windows 2003.

Veeam Software announces the release of Veeam Business View and update to Veeam Reporter Enterprise

Veeam Business View offers VMware vSphere management from a business perspective; Veeam Reporter Enterprise is updated with Business View integration and enhanced reporting

Columbus, Ohio, July 7, 2009 – Veeam Software, award-winning provider of systems management tools for VMware virtual datacenter environments, today made available a new add-on tool that works with other Veeam products to group, view and manage virtual machines based on criteria such as business unit, department, location, server purpose, or service level agreement.  This alternate view of the VMware infrastructure supports chargeback and helps control “VM sprawl” by linking every virtual machine to a business service.  At the same time, Veeam has updated its Reporter Enterprise product to enhance several reports and to integrate the new Business View capability.

“VMware vCenter provides only an adminis­trative (technical) view of the VMware infrastructure, showing VMs grouped by datacenters, clusters, or ESX and ESXi hosts,” explained Ratmir Timashev, Veeam president and CEO.  “IT professionals are increasingly called upon to think and work in terms of business services provided, and Veeam Business View was designed to help them do that.”

Veeam Business View automates the use of VMware’s native custom attributes to categorize VMs. Business View also allows editing the attributes manually for one or multiple VMs at a time, or automatically based on pre-defined rules. For example, VMware administrators can define an automated rule such as “if a VM has retail in its name, add it to the Retail Banking category.”

Business View is integrated with Veeam Reporter Enterprise, the Veeam nworks Management Pack and the nworks Smart Plug-in. In the near future, it will also be integrated with Veeam Monitor and Veeam Backup & Replication.  Business View is available at no extra charge for all current Veeam customers on maintenance.

Key benefits of Business View include:

• Manage VMs from a business perspective – Group, view and manage virtual machines based on business criteria.
• Prioritize resource allocation and utilization – Business View’s unique dashboard view allows administrators to see at a glance the number of VMs, vCPUs, amount of memory and storage used by each business unit, department, and server type.
• Control VM sprawl – Business View helps control VM sprawl by categorizing virtual machines. Unassigned VMs and the resources they consume can be immediately seen on the web-based dashboard.
• Define a chargeback model – Together with Veeam Monitor and Veeam Reporter Enterprise, Business View provides the flexibility to define a customized chargeback model. VM group information can be exported to a Microsoft Excel document for reporting or integration with other chargeback, inventory, or billing systems.
• Integrate with existing VM categorization process – Customers already using custom attributes to group VMs by business unit, department, purpose, or SLA can automate and extend what they already have – no need to recreate everything from scratch.
• Open architecture – Because Business View integrates with VMware vCenter data, customers can leverage the advantages of Veeam Business View with the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client and other third-party products. To reduce complexity, Veeam Business View comes with a built-in web service that allows any application to quickly query a specific category’s content directly from the Business View server, without putting any extra load on the vCenter server.

“As IT organizations increasingly look to run more like a business, they need information to better align the business services that they deliver,” said Cameron Haight, Research Vice President, Gartner, Inc.  “This is becoming more critical with all the changes being wrought by an increasingly virtual, multi-sourced IT environment.  IT organizations should thus look for tools and develop processes that provide insight to key IT decision makers to ensure that future technology resource demands are able to be satisfied.”   

Availability
Veeam Business View is available immediately at no charge to all Veeam customers on maintenance.  More information, including download links, is available at http://www.veeam.com/vmware-business-view.html.  The updated version of Veeam Reporter Enterprise is also available immediately, with free trial downloads available at http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-reporting_enterprise.html.

About Veeam Software
Veeam Software, a premier-level VMware Technology Alliance Partner and member of the VMware Ready Management program, provides innovative software for managing VMware vSphere 4 and Virtual Infrastructure 3. Veeam offers an award-winning suite of tools to assist the VMware administrator, including #1 for VMware backup: Veeam Backup & Replication; Veeam Reporter Enterprise, for VMware performance, storage, capacity reporting and chargeback;  Veeam Configurator, offering complete host configuration management; and Veeam Monitor, for VMware performance monitoring and alertingacross multiple vCenters. With its acquisition of nworks, Veeam's products include the nworks Smart Plug-in and the nworks Management Pack that incorporate VMware data into enterprise management consoles from HP and Microsoft.  Learn more about Veeam Software by visiting www.veeam.com.

Veeam Backup & Replication 3.1

VEEAM BACKUP IS FIRST TO SUPPORT VMWARE vSPHERE 4
Veeam Backup & Replication 3.1 Also Adds Support for Microsoft Windows 2008  and 64-bit Operating Systems

Columbus, Ohio, June 2, 2009 – Veeam Software, award-winning provider of systems management tools for VMware virtual datacenter environments, today made available version 3.1 of Veeam Backup & Replication, the #1 backup solution for VMware environments, now with support for VMware vSphere 4. Other new features include support for Microsoft Windows 2008 and 64-bit operating systems on the backup server.

“Other vendors have announced their intent to support vSphere 4, but Veeam is pleased to be the first to offer generally available support for the backup and recovery of VMware vSphere 4,” said Ratmir Timashev, Veeam president and CEO. “New customers who have come to us through our competitive upgrade promotional program told us they also wanted 64-bit and Windows 2008 support, and were unable to get it from their previous vendor, so we added that support as well.”

“Our development team is now working on our next major release, Veeam Backup & Replication 4.0, which is due in late Q3 2009,” Timashev continued. “Version 4.0 will bring even more innovative customer-requested functionality, including leveraging the new VMware vStorage APIs.”

Until June 15, Veeam is offering an aggressive limited-time promotion whereby customers using competing products for VMware ESX and ESXi backup, replication and recovery can replace these products with Veeam Backup & Replication at 50% off Veeam‘s usual suggested retail price. Customers must provide proof of purchase to qualify for this offer. Veeam‘s 2,500+ worldwide reseller partners can be found at http://www.veeam.com/buy-end-user.html.

“We chose Veeam Backup & Replication because it offers a much better recovery solution compared to other products, either for the whole VM or for individual files,” said Tim Carter, senior systems administrator, Isaac Agnew (Holdings) Ltd., Ireland. “Other products back up the data twice, which is a waste of time for us. We're on a tight window for backup, and the Veeam solution saves us time by only backing up our data once.”

Pricing and Availability
Veeam Backup 3.1 is available immediately, with North American pricing unchanged at $499 USD per socket. More information, including free trial downloads, is available at http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-backup.html.

About Veeam Software
Veeam Software, a premier-level VMware Technology Alliance Partner and member of the VMware Ready Management program, provides innovative software for managing VMware Infrastructure. Veeam offers an award-winning suite of tools to assist the VMware administrator, including #1 for VMware Backup: Veeam Backup & Replication; Veeam Reporter Enterprise, for VMware Performance, Storage, Capacity reporting and chargeback;  Veeam Configurator, offering Host Profiles today; and Veeam Monitor, for vmware performance monitoring and alerting across multiple Virtual Centers.  With its acquisition of nworks, Veeam's products include the nworks Smart Plug-in and the nworks Management Pack that incorporate VMware data into enterprise management consoles from HP and Microsoft.  Learn more about Veeam Software by visiting www.veeam.com.

Veeam announces a Backup & Replication Competitive Upgrade Program

VEEAM SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES VEEAM BACKUP & REPLICATION COMPETITIVE UPGRADE PROGRAM

Customers Using Competing Products Can Get 50% Discount When They Upgrade to Veeam Backup & Replication

Columbus, Ohio, April 6, 2009 — Veeam Software, award-winning provider of systems management tools for VMware virtual datacenter environments, today announced an aggressive limited-time promotion whereby customers using competing products for VMware ESX and ESXi backup, replication and recovery can replace these products with Veeam Backup & Replication at 50% off Veeam‘s usual suggested retail price. Customers must provide proof of purchase to qualify for this offer. Veeam reseller partners worldwide will honor this special promotional pricing through June 15, 2009.

"Disaster recovery is a top priority for me – I know how it can affect a business. If you‘re serious about backing up your virtual machines, you need to have faith in a product that works," said Nathan Johnson, Manager of IT Services, NAI Utah Commercial Real Estate. "I‘ve tried them all, and am most pleased with Veeam. Veeam Backup is definitely number one in this market.

"My previous vendor kept telling me they would be coming out with a future version that would solve my issues, but I got tired of waiting," Johnson added. "I needed something that works now."

Key features of Veeam Backup & Replication include:

• 2-in-1: Backup and replication in a single product
• Support for ESX, ESXi and the ESXi free edition
• Fast file-level recovery from image-level backups for Windows and Linux
• Reduced storage costs with data de-duplication
• Windows VSS support: database-consistent backup and recovery

"Before Veeam Backup & Replication was introduced in 2008, there were not a lot of options for ESX backup and replication," said George Sidoris, Veeam vice president of Worldwide Sales. "With this special limited-time offer, we want to provide relief to customers who may have spent their budget on older products and are now dissatisfied with them." Details of the special limited-time offer can be found at http://www.veeam.com/go/backup-upgrade. More information on Veeam Backup & Replication, including free downloads, is available at http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-backup.html.

About Veeam Software
Veeam Software, a premier-level VMware Technology Alliance Partner and member of the VMware Ready Management program, provides innovative software for managing VMware Infrastructure. Veeam offers an award-winning suite of tools to assist the VMware administrator, including #1 for VMware: Veeam Backup & Replication; Veeam Reporter Enterprise, to document virtual environments for capacity planning and chargeback;  Veeam Configurator, offering Host Profiles today; and Veeam Monitor, for performance monitoring and alerting across multiple Virtual Centers.  With its acquisition of nworks, Veeam's products include the nworks Smart Plug-in and the nworks Management Pack that incorporate VMware data into enterprise management consoles from HP and Microsoft.  Learn more about Veeam Software by visiting www.veeam.com.