Veeam V12 Launch x Community Hub Discussion Board

Here’s my responses

• What V12 capability are you most anticipating? - VeeamMover is a huge one and MFA
• How do you plan upgrades to Veeam Backup & Replication? - It will be a phased approach across our client base as we have approx 50 VBR servers to complete
• SNARK - Do you tell your boss you are upgrading? - Yes our environments are going RTM under change control.
• How long do you wait before upgrading? - Client VBR servers we will typically wait a minimum of 2 weeks before planning unless any request the upgrade
• Do you set a test lab for upgrades? - Yes

I’m looking forward to the following:

• Direct to Object, corollary to Cloud Protection Agents (the Veeam Repo can be very expensive to run in public cloud!)
• Support for VBAWS v6 and VBAzure v5 for my cloud customers
• Support for VB365 reporting
• Improved support for Immutability Reports and Alerts
• Backup Chain Improvements - so many reasons!

• What V12 capability are you most anticipating?
  • VeeaMover and MFA
• How do you plan upgrades to Veeam Backup & Replication?
  • ​​​​​​​Depends on the degree of upgrade.  Most of the time there’s not a lot of need to plan unless there are other impacts such as using a feature that is being deprecated, additional infrastructure needs (such as expanding per-job backups to per-VM, etc).  Internally not a big deal.  For external clients, yes, planning is needed, and some of that stems from dependencies - clients that are hosting data on VCC vendors such as 11:11 will need to wait to update until those vendors are able to support the new version.
• SNARK - Do you tell your boss you are upgrading?
  • ​​​​​​​Yes, but usually as it’s happening or right before just as a heads-up.
• How long do you wait before upgrading?
  • ​​​​​​​Internally I update almost right away….I tend to trust Veeam updates more than updates from other vendors.  External clients - often it’ll be a couple weeks after the release though I don’t plan on waiting as long this time around.  Now that I can deploy upgrades via the Service Provider Console, assuming testing works well (I have one lab environment giving me a weird error), then those that can be updated sooner will be.  It’s a lot more manual and takes a lot more time when I have to do them one-by-one.
• Do you set a test lab for upgrades?
  • ​​​​​​​I can.  Sometimes I don’t, sometimes I do - just depends on the current state of the lab and if I have the time as well as if there are certain features that I need to perform additional testing on.

Hi @safiya my 2 cents

• What V12 capability are you most anticipating?

MFA, Postgres DB platform and to have Object Storage in the Performance Tier

• How do you plan upgrades to Veeam Backup & Replication?

We apply upgrade immediatly on our labs 

• SNARK - Do you tell your boss you are upgrading?

Oh my boss is excited

• How long do you wait before upgrading?

We work with customers so we need to wait their availability

• Do you set a test lab for upgrades?

Sure

Yes, definitely one of the top 5 on my list for sure too.  Getting away from SQL licensing will be a bonus.

Happy VEEAMalantines day everyone! 💚

30 minutes to go!  Cannot wait for this event.

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Text search game? 😋

I saw a familiar cat on @Rick Vanover 👀

Need an opinion…   Using Zoomit on Demos.. YAY or NAY?
 

Cheers @Chris.Childerhose  → Especially as this one had a frame all the time (the V12 broadcast) and sometimes camera was on side 1/3rd. So that worked for this, so far only @kirststoner12 has taken the Zoomit Plunge!