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Veeam 12 vs vSphere 6.7

  • September 1, 2025
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atinivelli
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ciao, ho un cliente che ha veeam 9 e vsphere 6.7: dovrò fargli l’aggiornamento (di veeam per fortuna).

Da documentazione la VBR 12 supporta vmware 6.7, ma mi fa un po’ paura, nel senso che recentemente sono rimasto scottato con una 5.5 (!) che in teoria era supportata da versioni vecchie di veeam che mi ero procurato, ma nei fatti non andava, essendo una build particolarmente datata.

Quindi, fuori supporto per fuori supporto, stavo quasi pensando che fermarsi alla VBR 11 poteva essere una idea per cavarsela nel modo più indolore, dato che anche questo cliente mi sa che abbia una 6.7 mai toccata dalla installazione originale.

Avete esperienze in merito?

Best answer by Dynamic

Ciao Alessandro,

you could go with VBR 12.3.2. and vSphere 6.7.
Afaik every version since vSphere 6.0 is currently supportet.

 

But, regards upgrading from an earlier release than v10a, please check this R&D post: Upgrade VBR 9 to 12 - R&D Forums

Hope that helps a bit. Best, Markus

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Dynamic
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  • September 1, 2025

Ciao Alessandro,

you could go with VBR 12.3.2. and vSphere 6.7.
Afaik every version since vSphere 6.0 is currently supportet.

 

But, regards upgrading from an earlier release than v10a, please check this R&D post: Upgrade VBR 9 to 12 - R&D Forums

Hope that helps a bit. Best, Markus


AndrePulia
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  • September 1, 2025

Hi ​@atinivelli Veeam v12 supports vSphere 6.7, but vSphre 6.7 in not under support bt Broadcom anymore. https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/318381/announcing-end-of-support-life-for-vsphe.html

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/platform_support.html?ver=120#vm_virt

So, I think is better to convince the customer to upgrade to vSphere v7

 

Um abraço, André Pulia


atinivelli
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  • September 2, 2025

thank you Markus and Andre. I know that vSphere 6 is out of support but there is no chance to upgrade that for many reasons, the first is that I have only two days at the customer site (working from remote is not allowed by their policy). Shortly after this on site activity I will leave the current company and I won’t be able to support the customer after that.

The customer has only an handful of VMs and a couple of job: I would go for a fresh install of VBR 12, my only concern is that they are currently using iSCSI LUNs mounted on the veeam server itself, not the easiest scenario to be migrated, especially when you are so short on time.


AndrePulia
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  • September 3, 2025

Hi ​@atinivelli Regarding the iSCSI LUN, I coudln’t find which issue it represents, would you mind to give more details regarding it?

 

 


atinivelli
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  • September 3, 2025

Hi ​@atinivelli Regarding the iSCSI LUN, I coudln’t find which issue it represents, would you mind to give more details regarding it?

 

well, I’m worried about installing a new operating system, configuring iSCSI on it to “see” the repository LUNs, mapping the LUNs on the storage to that host and so on.

I don’t know the customer, never been there, for sure it does not appear the kind of customer that manages properly his infrastructure, as vsphere 6.7 and veeam 9.5 are a proof of that.

So issues like “the lun mapping was performed by a consultant which has retired 3 years ago, and he had the storage passwords….” are possible. 

 

 


atinivelli
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  • September 3, 2025

oh well… VBR 13 is out today: maybe that’s a good idea to install a V13 Linux Appliance, adding the previous windows server as a managed server/repository. 😀


AndrePulia
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  • September 3, 2025

@atinivelli I get your point now! It's true, it's really difficult to do activities without the certainty of having good documentation, passwords, etc.


AndrePulia
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  • September 3, 2025

oh well… VBR 13 is out today: maybe that’s a good idea to install a V13 Linux Appliance, adding the previous windows server as a managed server/repository. 😀

Yeah, that’s an ideia.