It’s been almost 2 weeks since VeeamON ended and I thought it was time to reflect on some of the (big) changes that are coming. First off, thanks again to Veeam for sponsoring the conference and hotel. The Diplomat in Fort Lauderdale was amazing; the conference was at the hotel and one did not have to walk a mile to go between sessions, vendors and hotel room. Much appreciated!
There were definitely some surprises at the VeeamON. During the keynote is was announced that Veeam now supports two more hypervisors, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Proxmox. The latter was not really a surprise, as Gostev had indicated this was coming leading up to the conference.
What was pretty impressive to see during the technical note was a migration from VMware to Proxmox by Anthony Spiteri. I can only speak for myself, but I have a feeling that many organizations are looking into alternatives after the Broadcom acquisition.
Another announcement was that Veeam can now backup two more workloads, MongoDB and Microsoft EntraID. Entra will be backed up via Veeam B&R, not Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. I’m pointing this out, as there was some discussion if it would make more sense to have it under VBO. I personally think Veeam made the right decision not have it with B&R. At any rate I’m pretty certain Entra will be a welcomed addition for backing up your cloud infrastructure.
We got a quick glimpse at B&R version 13, that Anton put on the screen. First he started trying to RDP into the system, but if failed. He quickly brought up a ssh session and only showed one command: “top”
Honestly it took me a moment; but there it was…Veeam B&R running on Linux! Very excited about this, not to replace existing Veeam Servers but to add on for different roles. Veeam made it very clear V&B for Windows is not going anywhere!
There weren’t many details revealed, but it should be released in 2024.
During the conference I attended several sessions. One was NAS backup best practices, which I found very useful and informative. See below for some of the points we talked about:
I also attended Shane and Rasmus’ session that focused on Linux and Veeam. There were some helpful hints for Linux starters on how to mount a share, resize a partition and so on.
The last session I attended was on Veeam’s Hardened Linux Repo. Rick and Hannes were the presenters. There are some pretty amazing changes coming. First of, it is switching to Rocky Linux. One reason for the change is quicker release of Stig security profiles compared to Ubuntu . Second it will be official supported by Veeam. There will be configurator with a menu to change network, ntp and so on. For support and idea exchange, the product will be placed in the R&D Forums, together with all the other products. Almost feels like it’s growing up!
All in all it was a very good conference; the location was great and I learned a bunch of new tricks. Time to fire up the home-lab for the updated version of Veeam Hardened Repository!
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