Veeam announces Backup and Replication 7.0
Veeam has announces Version 7 of Backup and Replication. It comes with 2 new major features, 7 market leading feature, 50+ other enhancements and a new Edition.
First, have a look at the new major features:
Beside the new main features this version will also include the following new features:
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Support for vCloud Director
Using the vCloud Director API, Veeam will display the vCloud Director infrastructure directly in Veeam Backup & Replication, backup all vApp metadata and attributes, restore vApps and VMs directly to vCloud Director, and support restore of fast-provisioned VMs.
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vSphere Web Client Plug-in
Customers can now see information about the status of Backup and Replication in the vSphere Web Client.
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Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Sharepoint
As with Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange, it is now possible to do the same thing with Microsoft Sharepoint.
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Native Tape Support
The new tape support is a great way to make Veeam backups portable and take them offsite.
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Virtual Lab for Hyper-V
Virtual Labs was a VMware only features in previous version. In version 7 the whole feature set (SureBackup, Universal Application Item Restore (U-Air), On-Demand Sandbox) is available for Hyper-V too.
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Enhanced 1-click Restore
Since version 6, 1-Click Restore has made it easy for users to recover lost or corrupted files. In version 7, Veeam is extending 1-Click Restore to include self-service recovery of individual VMs!
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Virtual Lab for Replicas (VMware only)
Customers can now use the whole feature set (SureBackup, Universal Application Item Restore (U-Air), On-Demand Sandbox) of Virtual Labs for their replicas (SureReplica).
Beside this new features and enhancesments a new Edition is introduced, Enterprise Plus.
Veeam Backup and Replication 7 Editions
| Product | Standard | Enterprise | Enterprise Plus |
| Veeam Backup & Replication | x | x | x |
| Veeam Backup Management Suite | x | x | x |
| Veeam Essentials | x | x |
Features per Edition
| New v7 Features | Standard | Enterprise | Enterprise Plus |
| Backup copy | Direct transfer | Direct transfer | Direct transfer and WAN accelerated |
| Backup from Storage Snapshots | x | ||
| Archive to tape | Files only | Includes full backup tracking | Includes full backup tracking |
| Support for VMware vCloud Director | Visibility + VeeamZIP backup | Full vCloud Director support | Full vCloud Director support |
| 1-Click Restore (guest files and VMs) | x | Includes optional Selfservice | |
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Virtual Lab for Hyper-V: |
x | x | |
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Virtual Lab for Replicas: SureReplica, U-AIR, On-Demand Sandbox |
x | x | |
| Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Share Point | No restore to original location | Includes restore to original location | Includes restore to original location |
| vSphere web client plug-in | x | x | |
| Full Instant File-Level Recovery for Hyper-V (Windows and Linux, et al) | x | x | x |
| Task automation | PowerShell | PowerShell | PowerShell + RESTful API |
Veeam Backup & Replication v7 will be available in the third quarter of 2013. European pricing (in EUR) will be: Standard Edition: 620€/socket. Enterprise Edition: 1,000€/socket. Enterprise Plus Edition: 1,600€/socket. Veeam Backup Free Edition will continue to be available at no charge at http://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.html.