Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4b Released

Veeam has released Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4b.

This version giv support for new SO, Application verison and bug fixes:

Platform support

• Microsoft Windows 10 May 2019 Update and Microsoft Windows Server version 1903 support as guest VMs, and for the installation of Veeam Backup & Replication and its components.
• Microsoft Windows 10 May 2019 Update and Microsoft Windows Server version 1903 support by the Veeam Agent for Windows 3.0.2 (included in the update).
• Linux Kernel version 5.0 support by the updated Veeam Agent for Linux 3.0.2 (included in the update).
• Ubuntu 19.04, SLES 15 SP1, RHEL 8, CentOS 8 and openSUSE Leap 15.1 distributions support in the Veeam Backup & Replication agent management functionality.
• VMware vCloud Director 9.7 compatibility at the existing Update 4 feature level.
• VMware vSphere 6.5 U3 readiness based on the pre-release build. The official support will still require the full regression testing performed on the generally available (GA) build. This record will be updated with further information and the official support statement based on results.
• VMware vSphere 6.7 U3 readiness based on the pre-release build. The official support will still require the full regression testing performed on the generally available (GA) build. This record will be updated with further information and the official support statement based on results.

Application support

• Oracle 19c on Linux support for RMAN-based and OCI-based application-aware processing, redo log backup and Veeam Explorer for Oracle in most configurations. Due to the recent availability of Oracle 19c, testing of DataGuard and RAC configurations is still being performed. This record will be updated with further information and the official support statement based on results.
• Oracle 19c on Windows support for RMAN-based and OCI-based application-aware processing, redo log backup and Veeam Explorer for Oracle in basic configurations only. Due to the most recent availability of Oracle 19c for Windows, testing of advanced configurations (DataGuard, RAC, ASM, Pluggable DB, flashback, virtual accounts) is still to be performed. This record will be updated with further information and the official support statement based on results.

Cloud integrations

• Veeam Backup & Replication will now periodically update the list of supported Amazon AWS regions from the Veeam update server. The list will be updated as Veeam QC validates compatibility with the newly added Amazon region. This functionality requires that you opt in for automatic product update check via the existing Check for product and hypervisor updates periodically check box in the Notification settings.

Storage integrations

• Dell EMC Unity OE version 4.5 support.
• The proprietary NFS client has been updated for compatibility with the Western Digital IntelliFlash (formerly Tegile) Universal Storage API plug-in. The plug-in will be made generally available along with the Update 4b release.

In addition, Update 4b addresses over 100 bugs reported by customers and found during the internal testing, including the following common support issues:

• Tape virtual full backup reliability and performance, tape drive detection logic, WORM media support and NDMP backup reliability.
• Agent-based backup jobs may create unnecessary full backups under certain circumstances, or fail in the environments with very long backup repository paths.
• Scale-out backup repository race condition causes synthetic backup operations to dead lock when a very powerful backup proxy server is used.
• PowerShell Direct calls may hang under certain circumstances in the application-aware processing logic of Hyper-V backup.
• Veeam Agent for Windows: CBT driver block map reset issue; inability to failover to backup cache when it is hosted on a USB storage; inability to open a support case from the product UI under a restricted user account; improved command line tool for the Recovery Media creation.
• Veeam Agent for Linux: Dell servers with NUMA enabled may crash during the snapshot creation; intermittent backup jobs failures when processing XFS volumes; entire computer backup failure on Ubuntu 18.04 with Intel Software RAID; enhanced encrypted devices compatibility through redesigned device enumerator; CLI improvements for backup scope specification.
• NetApp ONTAP Snapvault retention processing in 7-mode clusters.
• Performance and resource usage optimizations in a number of backup infrastructure components.

See the Veeam KB here: https://www.veeam.com/kb2970