![]() To learn more, see Restoring Data from Veeam Agent Backups and Managing Veeam Agent Backups. For such Veeam Agent backups, Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to perform the same set of operations as for backups created with regular backup scenario that uses software VSS provider. ![]() Veeam Backup & Replication completes the backup job session and deletes snapshot metadata from the storage and backup proxy.Īfter that, you can use backups created from storage snapshots for restore and administration tasks.Keep in mind that if the snapshot LUN contains a dynamic volume, Veeam Backup & Replication reads all extents of this volume. Veeam Backup & Replication reads the snapshot LUN and transfers data from the backup proxy to the target repository.Veeam Backup & Replication moves the snapshot LUN to the backup proxy.After a snapshot LUN is created, this LUN connects to Veeam Agent computer to finish VSS operations and record storage metadata.To learn more about VSS and its limitations, see this Microsoft article. Veeam Backup & Replication will complete the backup job with the Failed status or fail over to the regular backup scenario that uses software VSS provider. If storage system fails to create a native snapshot within the time period allowed by VSS, Veeam Backup & Replication will behave according to the storage integration settings. Veeam Backup & Replication starts a backup job session and sends a request to the storage system to create a native snapshot as a new LUN.If the hardware VSS provider is not installed, Veeam Backup & Replication rescans the Veeam Agent computer and installs the hardware VSS provider. ![]() Veeam Backup & Replication checks that the hardware VSS provider is installed on the Veeam Agent computer.Once all the hosts are completed with the upgrades, we can double check the driver version again inside of the vSphere Web Client and now see version 12.0.412 CDP policies can now be re-enabled, and the replication will continue on with it’s processing of the VMs in the policy.To create a backup from a storage snapshot, Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Agent do the following: Hosts will NOT be rebooted during this upgrade. The process is identical to doing VMware updates with Lifecycle Management (Update manager) in which VMs are vMotioned off of a host, the host is placed into maintenance mode, and the updates (or in our case Filter Driver) is changed. The nice thing about this method is that vSphere is responsible for the availability of VMs and hosts. During the upgrade, Veeam will be using vSphere APIs to handle uninstalling and installing VIBs. The two clusters show out of date and they will now get updated by clicking next. In the navigation tree under Inventory, right click on the vCenter server and choose Manage IO Filters. The cost and complexity of building a secondary disaster recovery site is a deterrent for many organizations. I re-enabled my policy to show the error message that the console will display.Īgain, the vSphere clusters could have been updated by now, but I chose not to on the previous screens – but now is the time to proceed with the update. Flexible and agnostic by design reliably replicate backup data and VM replicas from any storage to any storage. Since the clusters have not yet been updated, any CDP policies that get re-enabled will not be able to yet process VMs and their disks. ![]() Here, all the remote servers will now be updated, but I again un-selected the vSphere clusters so we can update the I/O Filters independent of the rest of the infrastructure. When you log back into the Veeam console for the first time after the update, there’s a list of remote components that have not yet been updates (as I had unchecked to button to update them automatically). I chose to NOT update remote components automatically in order to show the more manual approach.Īfter a while, the update is complete, and the server will require a reboot. Mount the ISO and start the installer, and continue through the steps to upgrade from v11 to v12. If you leave your CDP policies running the installer will let you know. Just like any other Veeam upgrade, all jobs will need to be stopped (or policies disabled in the case of CDP) and the backup console closed. That information can be found by selecting the vSphere cluster, and navigating to Configure, and selecting I/O Filters. In my lab, I’m running the latest build of Veeam Backup and Replication v11, and my hosts have the veecdp filter driver version 11.1.312. With the release of Veeam Backup and Replication v12 on 2/14/23, there’s going to be a lot of upgrades happening! For the installs that use Veeam’s CDP (Continuous Data Protection) for sub minute, snapshot-less replication, that’s means updating the IO filter driver on the VMware hosts. ![]()
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