It's been 4 weeks since we've made Update 3 for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 generally available, so I owe you an update on the common issues we're seeing in support after 30'000 downloads. Basically, there are only two commonly reported issues so far. First one is with the UI being slow/unresponsive on some nodes in large backup infrastructures. This one is caused by a few sub-optimal SQL queries, and it appears that most of these issues existed even before U3. Anyhow, our support has the hot fix in hands – and it's been validated in a couple of "tough" environments already, so we're pretty confident about this one. The second issue is with certain Linux-based repositories – this one is not straightforward, and while something definitely broke - we can't confirm it in-house on the repositories we have, so this must be some distro-specific issue. Last I heard, the theory was that it is specific to Synology NAS users who made changes to enable our Data Mover to run directly on the box. So, this issue is still being investigated.
The rest of the issues have been reported just once or twice, so are likely environment-specific. And overall, our support management is "cautiously happy" with the update quality so far. We're planning to wait until the end of January, and then determine if all known issues are significant enough to justify releasing Update 3a - or we can just stick with those hot fixes and move on (right now it looks like the latter). By the way, one huge benefit of our new release approach with major feature updates, is the ease of releasing such "a/b/c" updates should we ever need them to stabilize some new functionality: being cumulative by nature, those are installable on any build starting from GA and to the latest update - so, should we need to "patch" one slightly, it's going to be easy for both us and you.
I always like to share the testimonials of those who gave general purpose servers a try for their backup repositories, because of how excited they are seeing so much performance improvement from such a small investment relatively to the costs of alternatives. Indeed, not only such storage is cheap and fast – but also easy to scale by virtualizing multiple boxes into the single pool using a scale-out backup repository. Which is actually another gem that many users have just started to uncover, often leading to major changes to their data protection strategies. For example, one B&R customer recently told us that his discovery of Veeam's scale-out repository made him start backing up workstations "just because of how easy it was to join those unused pieces of storage capacity I had here and there". Basically, he could not approve the budget to buy a backup storage for workstations, and so just did not back those up at all, having to constantly fix or redeploy them - but scale-out backup repository allowed him to put together the solution to this time sink using the existing storage resources! And this story would totally sound like a sales pitch if he did not use FREE agents to do this!
Next up, the dedicated Meltdown and Spectre paragraph. For those of you who have already patched your ESXi hosts with the initial set of patches, please note that those patches are being recalled by VMware, and action is required. VMware has also updated their security advisory late in the week. Next, we've been getting many questions regarding performance impact of the corresponding OS patches on Veeam performance – it's being evaluated, please follow this Veeam KB article and this
forum topic for updates. And while not specific to Veeam, here's a good article with many such reports collected, although some I've already covered in the previous digest. Finally, if you have certain AMD processors and installed those critical Windows patches which Microsoft pushed to Windows Update, here's the important Microsoft KB article that you won't be able to read, because your computer is unbootable!
In other major news, Microsoft PowerShell Core 6.0 is now generally available – I know many have been waiting for this one!
Apple seem to be having a really bad year with all the security bugs in High Sierra – and each new bug only gets more ridiculous. If with the previous bug, you really had to work hard to "convince" the OS to accept an invalid password – this time, they found one can unlock App Store preferences using an administrator-level account with any password at all. Wow!
Storage is an important topic for everyone, so I decided to share this article that provides an interesting opinion and outlook on major vendors > Three challenges for mainstream storage. We love them all though - in fact, Veeam either already integrates, or (thanks to the Universal Storage API) soon will, with almost all vendors in the list. |
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