Since Veeam Backup & Replication has been released, each new version brings anticipated capabilities and features our users requested and innovations to the market. Now, the entire Veeam community is excited about the newest release of Veeam Availability Suite v10.

With more than 150 new features and enhancements – including modern NAS support, Multi-VM Instant Recovery and heightened ransomware protection – v10 includes data protection capabilities that increase availability, portability, and extensibility for Cloud Data Management.

“Veeam is the only solution that can accommodate our massive data growth. Enterprise scalability is what sets Veeam apart.”- Renata Kobylinski, Director of Hosting and engineering devices, Royal Caribbean Cruise Ltd.; Miami, FL

“v10 finally allows us to move off our legacy backup Data Protector software to an all Veeam approach for even bare metal and large physical RDM servers, including Microsoft Windows Clustering. It fills the gap we were searching for the last few years with the StoreOnce Catalyst Store Support while meeting more stringent security requirements than CIFS or NFS would allow.” – Jason Melmoth, IT manager, Fountain Tire; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

What Veeam Availability Suite V10 Brings

Seriously powerful NAS Backup

New capabilities that redefine NAS data protection to deal with the world of massive file data. Rely on the simplicity that only Veeam® can deliver with comprehensive backups of everything that runs your business.

• Cloud – Backup in, to or from the cloud
• Virtual – VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV
• Physical – Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Unix

Network-attached storage backup Modernize and simplify the protection of unstructured file data and file servers at scale with powerful new capabilities that bring flexibility to NAS data protection and recovery, greatly reducing storage costs while improving recovery times.

• Faster incremental backups on commodity hardware to deliver scalable protection for unstructured file data through innovative file change tracking capability.
• The flexibility to store your unstructured NAS data on cheaper storage with the ability to easily tier to the cloud.

Many restore options — entire share recovery to address complete hardware loss or NAS migration, point-in-time share rollback to quickly recover from ransomware attacks, and file-level recovery with global search for day-to-day operational restores.

Scale-out Backup Repository Consolidate and extend your backup repositories with the powerful Scale-out Backup Repository (SOBR). Choose where your backups go, keep backups together, and restore with confidence. Select between higher-performance local targets or longer-term object storage in the Cloud Tier to meet your recovery and cost objectives.

Achieve the 3-2-1 backup rule faster than ever, ensuring that you are remaining compliant and are ready for any disaster.

New automated Cloud Tier copy mode allowing for duplicating backups to object storage as soon as they are created — providing fast redundancy for your backup repositories.

Seal your SOBR storage extents, preventing new writes or changes to existing data while still allowing restores and retention to continue while your data ages out.

Application-aware backup Protect your applications with production impact via direct integration into native tools including Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS), Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) and SAP HANA Backint, ensuring that your application data is captured during backup and ready for recovery.

Storage agnostic destinations Take advantage of storage efficiencies that Veeam uniquely delivers through strong integration with leading storage vendors regardless of format – leverage Veeam’s flexibility in robust storage functionality for cloud, disk or tape to get the most out of your hardware investment.

Multi-VM Instant Recovery

Accelerate Disaster Recovery with mass instant restores powered by Veeam’s next-generation Instant Recovery engine.

• Cloud– Restore in, to or from the cloud
• Virtual– VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV
• Physical– Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Unix
• Applications– Active Directory, SQL, Exchange, Sharepoint, Oracle, and SAP HANA

Instant VM recovery Instantly recovers ANY Veeam backup to VMware vSphere within minutes, providing you with the speed, flexibility, and portability required when recovering or migrating your data.

• Meet RTOs for any data, application, or location with up to 5x increase in recovery speed.
• Reduce your recovery footprint by restoring just the individual disks that are needed for extremely large VMs with Instant VM disk recovery.
• Less downtime associated with recovery and migration operations is achieved via simultaneous Instant Recovery of multiple VMs.

System and file recovery Deliver full system and file-level recovery for Windows, Linux, and UNIX, offering granular point in time recovery, even for the massive file data in unstructured NAS storage.

Application recovery Lightning-fast and reliable restores for applications and application items, giving you the confidence in virtually every recovery scenario to attain low recovery time objectives.

Data stays safe. Ransomware stays OUT

100% ransomware-proof backups with S3 object lock functionality and immutable backups. Customers need to:

• Protect workloads in the cloud
• Store backups in the cloud for redundancy and flexibility
• Leverage the cloud for disaster recovery (DR)

Veeam Cloud Tier Scale infinitely and do even more with the infinite capacity and security that the Veeam Cloud Tier object storage integration provides!

• Ensure your backups are recoverable and 100% protected from ransomware with Amazon S3 Object Lock Immutability.
• The new automated copy mode allows you to duplicate backups to object storage for fast, air-gapped redundancy, achieving the 3-2-1 Rule faster than ever.
• Support for Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, IBM Cloud Object Storage and S3-compatible service providers or on-premises object storage solutions.
• Best of all, Veeam does not charge additional fees to protect workloads in the cloud.

Cloud-native data protection Protect and easily recover from any data loss scenario in the cloud with cloud-native Veeam Backup for AWS and Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.

Restore directly to cloud Achieve fast and easy portability and recovery of any backup directly to AWS, Azure and Azure Stack in two simple steps. Directly restore any backup to the cloud for immediate access.

Veeam Cloud Connect Fully-integrated, cloud-based DR replication and fast, secure cloud backup with Veeam Cloud Connect through Veeam’s large ecosystem of capable service providers.

Author: Nisar Ahmad

Systems Engineer, vExpert 2017-19, owner of My Virtual Journey, with experience in managing a Datacenter environment using VMware and Microsoft Technologies. This blog mainly covers virtualization and cloud technologies but also covers some other technologies such as Cyber Security, Quantum Computing etc.