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According with the Veeam KB1891 (Patch 4 Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0) there a new patch for Veeam Backup & Replication 7. This patch was already avaiable some days (but only thought the technical support); now it’s available for the public download. After upgrading, your build will be version 7.0.0.871.

There are some interesting new features and new support matrix that make this patch really interesting. Remember that is cumulative also of the previous patches because this patch contains also all fixes from Patch 1, R2 update and Patch 3.

VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN)

Seems that is the VSAN momentum: all is becomeing “VSAN aware”.

But in this case is really interesting: in addition to adding basic support (as provided by other vendors), the intelligent load-balancing engine was enhanced to account for VSAN specifics.

As the result, for each VM the job will pick backup proxy running on VSAN cluster node with most of the virtual disks’ data available locally. This significantly reduces backup traffic on VSAN cluster network, resulting in minimum possible impact on production environment from backup activities.

Microsoft SQL Server 2014

This patch adds the support for Microsoft SQL Server 2014 both as the protected guest workload (including application-aware processing functionality), and the back-end database for backup and Enterprise Manager servers.

License key auto update

This new feature adds automated license key update option to the License Information dialog. With auto-update enabled, the product will check Veeam licensing server periodically for an updated license key, and download and install the key automatically as soon as it becomes available.

This feature is particularly useful to the Service Providers and subscription-based customers, and it removes the need to download and install the license key manually each time when the license extension is purchased.

Backup Copy

  • The maximum allowed amount of restore points in the Backup Copy job has been increased to 999.
  • Backup Copy will now resume the transfer after network connection drop to a Linux-based backup repository.
  • Backup Copy jobs should no longer report errors during the days when source backup jobs are not scheduled to run – for example, during the weekend.

Hyper-V

  • Added support for certain Hardware VSS Providers that previously could not be detected by the storage rescan process, and as such could not be used by the jobs.
  • Jobs will now retry failed snapshot creation when another shadow copy of the same volume is already in progress, instead of immediately failing to process a VM.

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