With the release of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 in November, there was an announcement made about the vSphere 6.5 support.
“Yesterday, with impeccable timing, VMware announced the general availability of vSphere 6.5. As always, we started work on the full integration of vSphere 6.5 since its beta, however, we now need adequate time to integrate the final VDDK code and then perform full regressive testing against the final vSphere 6.5 code to ensure the reliability of our advanced vSphere integrations. Therefore, full support for vSphere 6.5 in Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 will be delivered as a part of Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 1. And while an exact support timeline will depend on the results of our testing, historically we deliver support for new vSphere releases approximately two months after the final code availability.” Source: https://www.veeam.com/blog/new-veeam-availability-suite-9-5-is-available-today.html
On 20 January, Veeam has finally released update 1 for the Backup & Replication software (download link below).
Platform support:
- Dell EMC Data Domain OS 6.0 support, including synthetic full backup performances optimizations, backup retention and health check reliability improvements
- HPE 3PAR 3.2.2 MU3 support, including multiple API interaction improvements for added reliability and performance
- HPE StoreOnce 3.15.1 support, bringing Instant VM Recovery to Catalyst-based backup repositories
- Veeam Agent for Linux 1.0 support
- Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.0 Public Beta (build 2.0.0.594) support
- VMware vSAN 6.5 support
- VMware vSphere 6.5 support
- Encrypted VMs support
- VMFS6 support
- Virtual hardware version 13 support
- NBD compression
- New guest interaction API support
- New VM tag API support
Download link: https://www.veeam.com/kb2222
