Veeam V12 Launch x Community Hub Discussion Board

Here are my responses -

• What V12 capability are you most anticipating? --- I think the direct to object along with the VeeaMover to migrate jobs/repos
• How do you plan upgrades to Veeam Backup & Replication? --- Upgrades are done in our lab with documentation updates, diagram changes, etc. by myself before it gets to the Change Request stage for actual rollout
• SNARK - Do you tell your boss you are upgrading? --- Hard not to as it goes through Change Control - LOL
• How long do you wait before upgrading? --- Typically we take anywhere from 2-4 weeks as I run through the upgrade process several times to ensure things work as expected and allow all documentation to be updated including Visio diagrams, etc.
• Do you set a test lab for upgrades? --- Yes we have a lab that we use for all upgrades including Veeam 😎

   

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!

I saw a familiar cat on @Rick Vanover 👀

Oh yes, I forgot about PostgreSQL. 😎

This is a feature I am especially looking for, because we have several Veeam servers hitting the 10GB DB size limit and have expensive MS SQL licenses in use...

Text search game? 😋

• What V12 capability are you most anticipating? - VeeamMover, MFA, Plugin Improvements
• How do you plan upgrades to Veeam Backup & Replication? - We will wait some weeks before we will update our existing production environments. We have a test environment were we will test the upgrade and the database change. We are building two new environments at the moment and will build them with V12 right away.
• SNARK - Do you tell your boss you are upgrading? - Yes all of our environments are under change control.
• How long do you wait before upgrading? - We wait approximately 4 weeks before upgrading our production environments to a new major release.
• Do you set a test lab for upgrades? - Yes

30 minutes to go!  Cannot wait for this event.

• 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.

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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!

I’m going to wait 5 weeks since everyone else seems to wait 4 😀

Veeamover, direct to object will be huge. 

My feedback @safiya  : 

@Rick Vanover : stay using the zoomit on the demo’s, I love it, it helps to focus, I love it, so keep using it 😎

• What V12 capability are you most anticipating?

→ Veeamover

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

→ VCC already upgraded, now all customers will be upgraded when engineers are onsite or engineers at the servicedesk doing it remotely

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

​​​​​​​→ No, they totally have faith in me and let me do what has to be done

• How long do you wait before upgrading?

→ the first day of GA for the VCC infra, afterwards customers will follow

• Do you set a test lab for upgrades?

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​→ Yes, at home