Veeam and Free ESXi – it’s official now
Figured I would blog this…These are not my words, I just copied from Veeam’s official release. Let me know in the comments what you think…
As a longtime Premier Technology Alliance Partner and supporter of VMware’s product strategy, Veeam Software takes great pride in creating innovative software products that enhance the customer value of VMware ESX, ESXi, and ESXi Free. One such example is support for the free edition of VMware ESXi in Veeam Backup and Replication.
Recently, VMware requested that Veeam Software discontinue support for ESXi Free in Veeam Backup and Replication in order to comply with VMware’s updated licensing policy. In light of VMware’s request, and our close technical partnership, Veeam Backup and Replication will no longer support ESXi Free. We will still continue to offer support for ESXi Free to existing Veeam customers who purchased Backup & Replication prior to version 3.1.
For small or branch office environments, Veeam advises its new customers to buy VMware vSphere Essentials and the Veeam Essentials bundle (announced today). This combination costs exactly the same amount of money as purchasing 6 sockets of Veeam Backup at regular list price for use with free ESXi, but it is actually better, because with Veeam Essentials at its special discounted price, customers also get Veeam Monitor and Veeam Reporter.
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It’s always fun trying to pick themes for Tradeshows. With VMworld we can pretty much pick any theme since everyone there is part of our target audience. With Microsoft Tech·Ed the decision is a bit more difficult…how do we appeal just to select audience members that manage VMware? OK, maybe that wasn’t so difficult after More >
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Today Veeam released Veeam Reporter 4.0. This release is significant for many reasons but one that I’d like to focus on here is the new tracking and auditing capability. We introduced change tracking with Reporter 3.5 but we were missing one critical piece…who made the changes? With Reporter 4.0 we now pull in the vCenter More >
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I have to say my first MMS conference was a great experience. Not only did I have a chance to meet a lot of great new people, I also go to see first hand Microsoft’s messaging and go-to-market strategies around the entire System Center platform. The keynotes were great (thanks for streaming them live), if More >
about 3 months ago - 1 comment
I’m really looking forward to my first MMS experience next week in Las Vegas. Veeam is a gold sponsor at MMS this year and with good reason, we have some exciting announcements to make
about 3 months ago - 2 comments
If you’re a Veeam ProPartner then you should have received this update already but I wanted to get this out there for the rest of the world. As we move towards the next release of Veeam Backup & Replication which will include SureBackup, you will start to notice that we will have 2 versions, Standard More >
about 4 months ago - 5 comments
Once (maybe twice) in your professional life you are presented with a great opportunity. Sometimes you understand the opportunity going into it, other times you realize a few years later what a great opportunity you stumbled upon.
about 4 months ago - 3 comments
I’ve been mulling a post about this in my head for a week now and I thought I would get some thoughts out there on what it means to verify your backups. Veeam’s marketing department has done a great job in getting the word out about SureBackup but what is it really? Some have suggested More >
about 5 months ago - 2 comments
I’m going to be hosting a special Blogger Briefing on Sunday, March 21. The intent here is to give those bloggers who are interested some advance information so that when we do go public on March 22 you will have had time to consider our new features. My current plan is 11AM but I can be flexible if that’s too early/late for people.
about 5 months ago - 4 comments
Yes, I stole the title for this post from none other than Archie Hendryx who has a blog over at ZDNet UK. Archie asks the question and then goes on to provide several points as to why Veeam is the best backup solution for vShpere 4: So in looking around for solutions which best incorporated More >
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Over the past few months Veeam has commissioned a number of white papers from various industry specialists. There’s a lot of valuable information in these white papers, not just about Veeam but about virtualization backup and recovery in general. OpenBench Lab Report: Better Data Protection for VMware vSphere By Jack Fegreus Managing Director openBench Labs. More >
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I’m really not sure I’m happy about this.
Why is VMware dictating what Veeam can and can’t do and why is Veeam allowing it. Ok so there are business reasons I’m sure but where does this leave the consumer.
I need to fully digest this and see how it will effect my business.
Or have I missed the point, which is also possible.
Paul
about 1 year ago
Nope, you didn’t miss the point…
about 1 year ago
Why release a free product with no restrictions and then penalize an innovative partner for building on top of it? It’s kind of like telling your neighbor, “Yeah, I’m okay with you building a fence on our shared property line.” And then a couple months later suing them to take it down because it’s on your property line.
about 1 year ago
For those of us that bought Backup in the last month or so, any chance of converting it to Essentials? We bought 10 sockets in mid-April and haven’t gotten it implemented yet.
We’re probably gonna go with vSphere essentials on our current ESXi free for a number of reasons.
I just wish VMware’s pricing wasn’t such a moving target.
about 1 year ago
Which licensing policy was updated and when?
about 1 year ago
@MadHADR Not sure when it was changed, Veeam is just doing what VMware asked in order to be a good partner. Also, the statement from Veeam had to be released to help our customers understand why Veeam Backup and Replication would no longer work with ESXi Free.
Dropping the support for the Free version of ESXi has caused a number of support calls as well as questions from our partners, it was difficult to explain to them what was going on without an official statement, I’m sure you can understand.
about 1 year ago
You’ve got to be kidding me
about 1 year ago
…and this is good why?!
about 1 year ago
@Dwight – You’ll have to ask VMware that question
about 1 year ago
I think Vmware missed a good opportunity for SMB. I am a current Veeam and Vmware partner. We are using a lot of Free ESXi. My client are SMB, they don’t need a licence for 3 host of 2 CPU (vSphere Essential). They have 2 to 5 servers to consolidate, so one physical host is enough, but I must be able to backup them to make my setup secure and reliable. Even their cheapest option is too large for SMB. For this reason, I will have to considerate another choice like Hyper-V or Xen Server for many SMB I consult for.
Steve Lavoie, VCP
about 1 year ago
Ouch, chalk up a lost sale here then.
about 1 year ago
@Pete – Sorry to hear that. Lost sale for VMware or lost sale for Veeam? What direction will you be going now, just curious.
about 1 year ago
I believe VMWare wanted to dominate the business.
ESXi was a strategy meant to capture many SMB into the trap that VMWare setup long ago. The intention was for SMB to go into it and use it for production. They know that you need a good backup tool like Veeam, VRanger Pro.
I might be wrong. However it’s seems the stragegy works now and suprises many SMB.
I am in the same shoe as well. I have not find a good tool to backup Citrix Xen Server.
I will definately move to Citrix Xen Server if there is one available good backup tool for it.
I do hope Veeam will extend it tools to backup Citrix Xen VM’s and also Hyper-V as well since many customer from SMB needs it.
It’s a bad thing that Veeam it’s just a follower and servant to VMWare.
about 1 year ago
For a small business combo, vmware esxi / veeam backup looked to be an ideal combo. However, now that this option is no longer available, xenserver is back on the table leaving veeam highly vulnerable to a lost sale.
about 1 year ago
“This combination costs exactly the same amount of money as purchasing 6 sockets of Veeam Backup at regular list price for use with free ESXi, but it is actually better…”
What if you don’t need 6 sockets? What if you only need one or two? ESXi free and Veeam Backup were looking like a great combo that we were just starting to experiment with. Forget it now.
A smart idea on both companies’ parts would be to at least allow Veeam Backup to work with ESXi free for licenses of one or two sockets (or pick any other number less than six).
—H
about 1 year ago
Sucks.
I was on my way over to Veeam to purchase a couple of copies of backup as I have two single server environments running ESXi Free. Guess I’m SOL. Shame on VMWare. I’m a huge VMWare fan and we run Enterprise in our data centers, but I have a couple of SMB and charities as clients that just don’t want/need to spend the money on ESXi licenses. They only have one server… why do the need to pay for 6 sockets. Dumb…
Don’t they deserve a decent backup product, or is their data not important?
Short-sighted and arrogant of VMWare. I have to admit that although I understand the motiviation, I’m more than a bit disappointed in Veeam for caving.
Just to ensure that VMWare sees the errors in its ways, please be sure to add support for Xen, Hyper-V, and any additional free hypervisors that seem reasonable.
J
about 1 year ago
…or, even better… release the bits that use the “unsupported API” as open source, via an “unaffiliated” company/person. Make it a plug-in for your product.
I’ll keep my mouth shut, I swear!
about 1 year ago
Vmware = EMC
EMC = normous onetary osts
Just finished an Email Archive solution RFP, EMC was a finalist…. The only company more arrogant IMHO is Micro$oft.
I wish VMware had never sold out!
about 10 months ago
The discontinued support for ESXi is really screwing up what was a great DR solution for SMB’s and others who have a Single VMWare server and just 2 to 3 physical servers it gave a great solution at a low cost.
In the current economic climate this is a very big step back by Veeam to cave in to VMware pressure and an even larger step back by VMware.
VMware had a great chance to fight Microsoft by seeding the market but GREED and SHAREHOLDERS seem to be taking priority over clients and the future of the product.
I will just add remember Digital Research and Novell.