Last week, we've released Update 5 for Veeam Management Pack for System Center generally available! It's a huge update with lots of new features – particularly support for Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, new VMware vSAN monitoring with dozens of alarms on vSAN-specific metrics, additional Morning Coffee Dashboards and more – just check out the release notes, and you'll see why you want to update ASAP. If you are not MP customer yet, but are using SCOM – remember that we're still giving away 50 sockets of Enterprise Edition, so there's no excuse not to at least check our MP out.
For those interested in an update to the hot add writes performance issue that appeared due to VMware switching to SEsparse snapshots in vSphere 6.5 (and I know there are quite a few based on your constant follow ups on the forum). We had a long standing case with VMware Support on this issue, which after many months has finally came to the conclusion just now. In short, the official response is that this behavior is "by design" for the current SEsparse implementation. VMware engineering is apparently aware, and said to be working towards improving the performance, with timelines however being unclear as this "involves some design changes". Which does not sound too promising, so our current recommendation remains using NBD transport for target backup proxy of replication jobs. This also makes Update 3 for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 almost mandatory, as only this build has the latest VDDK version that gets rid of forced NBDSSL, which really plagues NBD performance.
Microsoft MVP summit last week was an amazing learning experience for me - so much good stuff is coming from Redmond in the upcoming RS4 and RS5 (by the way, the latter should become the new LTSC version of Windows Server). We've also received an email 3rd day into the summit saying that a bunch of MVPs were kicked out from the program right there on the spot for violating NDA. So I'd better keep my mouth shut on the details! But there's one thing important to many Veeam users that I can share – you should know that Microsoft keeps pouring incredible R&D investments into both ReFS and Storage Space Direct, and backup/archival use case will benefit from many of those heavily. So, just like 10 years ago, you still cannot go wrong by buying a general-purpose server for your primary Veeam repository! Even just because there's no lock-in into the particular OS and file system with this solution - and who knows what storage tech will be hot in 3 years from now?
VeeamON 2018 is just a couple of months away now! I didn't talk much about it here in the past months, so I thought I'd remind now that we have updated the website with Sessions at a glance and VMCE training information, which are usually the primary interests of mostly technical audience of this digest. I do hope some of you can make it there even if you are based outside of the North America, as we're in Chicago this year – which makes the travel so much easier for European folks.
Here's a good article on ransomware with all the same punch lines that I've been talking about here lately. Just from a more reputable source than yours truly, and aimed at C-levels - so hopefully, it'll come handy to some in your quest of getting budget for putting some air gap in place. I know how anything security-related is always a tough sell – my favorite saying goes "security is about spending money so that nothing happens". But, what can possibly be harder than selling air – especially quite a small amount of one (just enough to create a gap)? |
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