Veeam Backup & Replication v9.5 and Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 are finally in GA and available for the download!
NEW Veeam® Availability Suite™ 9.5 build (9.5.0.711) is NOW AVAILABLE for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V! Veeam Availability Suite includes both Veeam Backup & Replication™ and Veeam ONE™ and is part of the new Veeam Availability Platform for the Hybrid Cloud.
Some of the new features and enhancements are:
- Much faster backup performance
- Full integration with the Microsoft 2016 Data Center Technologies
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Integration with Nimble Storage
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Cloud Restore for ANY Veeam backup to Microsoft Azure
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Enterprise scalability and more
Support for the new VMware vSphere 6.5 is not yet available.
For more information see those refences:
- Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5: What’s New in 9.5, Release Notes (includes upgrade procedure)
- Veeam ONE 9.5: What’s New in 9.5, Release Notes (includes upgrade procedure)
- Veeam blog here
Also note that a couple of weeks ago Veeam released the RTM Build of Backup & Replication 9.5 to it’s Cloud and Service Provider partners. In this case to upgrade the product to GA you have to read those notes or KB2189.
For the first 48 hours, Veeam Backup & Replication has been downloaded over 10’000 times, and Veeam ONE over 5’000 times – which is 50% more downloads than 9.0 versions had within the same period of time.
