Just a short post today - I cherry picked a couple of my favourite features of 12.1. There were so many to choose from, but the features I love best in new releases are often the big heroes that hide in the shadows.
Maintenance mode enhancements — running Cloud Connect Replication jobs and Cloud Connect CDP policies will now be stopped gracefully and prevented from starting automatically for the duration of the maintenance mode.
This one has long been a thorn for us Service Providers. You put the environment into maintenance mode, but replicas continue to come through. I’m excited to see this new feature being implemented! Now maintenance on CC environments are going to be much less troublesome!
PostgreSQL database support — following multiple optimizations and QA testing, starting from v12.1 we’re removing the previous recommendation not to use PostgreSQL as a configuration database for Veeam Cloud Connect infrastructures.
Huge feature here! No longer will we be chained to expensive MS SQL licensing. Looking forward to doing this migration myself!
Full VMware Cloud Director 10.5 support — in addition to basic backup and restore compatibility provided by the corresponding V12 hotfix, V12.1 delivers full VMware Cloud Director 10.5 support including vSphere Web Client plug-in and all Veeam CDP functionality.
Another fantastic compatibility release. The KB needs to be updated, but I’m looking forward to this pushing this Veeam release so we can also push VCD 10.5.
Last but not least on my list:
Object storage improvements — multiple under-the-hood optimizations were implemented to significantly improve the performance of object storage repository operations like backup rescan, import, upgrade and removal while reducing object storage load at the same time.
There are many other improvements with v12.1! Check them out here and let me know, what are your favourite improvement unsung heroes of this release?
