Veeam Backup & Replication 4.1 Released!

Today Veeam released version 4.1 of our Backup & Replication product. It’s a milestone release for us because it now brings FULL ESXi compatibility to every one of our products. Why is this so important? From the industry view, VMware is pushing very hard for companies to adopt ESXi, it’s even been rumored that vSphere 4 is the last major release of ESX that will have a service console (COS), meaning that ESXi is the future for VMware. Veeam Backup and Replication 4.1 is yet another industry first by Veeam!

But it’s not just Veeam Backup & Replication…

All of Veeam’s products support ESXi, whether it’s reporting, monitoring or disaster recovery. Back at VMworld 2007 in San Francisco (yes, 2007, when ESXi was announced), Veeam R&D heard the message loud and clear that the COS is not the way VMware would like their partners to support ESX. With the VI API developers have a choice when writing software and for Veeam that choice is to move away from the COS.

What about ESXi Free?

Yes, we get the question all the time. While Veeam Backup & Replication did support the Free Version of ESXi for a brief time earlier this year, we no longer support ESXi Free for backup or replication. Some of our other products, however, do support ESXi Free, here’s a quick table of what is/isn’t supported by product:

 

ESX 3.5/4.x

ESXi 3.5/4.x

ESXi Free 3.x/4.x

Veeam Backup & Replication

Fully supported

Fully supported

Not supported

Veeam Monitor

Fully supported

Fully supported

Support for read operations only

Veeam/nworks MP and SPI

Fully supported

Fully supported

Support for read operations only

Veeam Reporter Enterprise

Fully supported

Fully supported

Support for read operations only