Veeam Backup and Replication v12.1 - What's new?

"Veeam Team,

We announced today the availability of Veeam Data Platform 23H2 Update (V12.1), enabling our customers to be radically resilient in a world of cyberthreats.

Please join me in congratulating the Veeam Data Platform Engineering, Product, and Marketing teams for all their hard work.

The 23H2 release shifts Veeam from being reactive to proactive when dealing with the greatest threat to businesses and their data — malware. From detection to recovery, this latest release helps IT and security teams to:

Minimize the devastation of a cyberattack
Empower their teams to slash incident response time
Complete their security and compliance standing

Additional capabilities include:

Backup of Object Storage
Enhancements for AWS, Azure, and Google
Various enterprise enhancements for IBM, NetAPP, ServiceNow, and HPE
Expansions to our CDP and DR capabilities
Our new AI assistant"

Security And Compliance Improvement

Malware detection
Key management systems support (KMIP)
SIEM integration (Syslog support)
Dell Data Domain Retention Lock support
HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Copy immutability

Backup of object storage

CDP

SureReplica
Point-in-time file level recovery
Planned failover
Smart visualization & more

Applications and integrations

ServiceNow Integration
Postgres instant recovery
DB2 on AIX & Linux

Tape News

Jaguar tape support (IBM 3592)

Veeam Agent for Linux

IBM Power support

Storage integrations

On-prem Glacier compatible support

Security & Compliance: Malware detection

Security & Compliance Dashboard
Inline detection (encryption & ransom notes)
In-guest detection via guest-index
YARA rules support
Automated scans via SureBackup
On-Demand scans
Malware events & false positives
Incident API
How to test features above

Security & Compliance: General

Key management systems support (KMIP)
Four Eyes approval
SIEM integration (syslog support)
Security & Compliance analyzer
Removed “Files” Tab For Non-Admin Users
Warning on short encryption passwords

Security & Compliance: Immutability News

Dell Data Domain Retention Lock support
HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Copy immutability
Object Lock Governance Mode
Immutable configuration backup on object storage
Consistent immutability in SOBR
Hardened Repository: Time step detection

Backup of object storage

Restore options
Technical overview
Linux Proxies

Application integrations

DB2 on AIX & Linux
SAP HANA On Power On Linux
SAP HANA Explorer
Instant Recovery of PostgreSQL instances
PostgreSQL database export
ServiceNow Integration

CDP

SureReplica
Scalability improvements
Point-in-time file level recovery
Veeam Explorers support
Planned failover
Other features
- Change disk type support
- Smart visualization & more

NAS backup

Netapp FlexGroup support
Load balancing Dell PowerScale (Isilon) & Netapp
Restore: Compare with production
Flexible includes / excludes

Tape News

Jaguar tape support (IBM 3592)
Microsoft DFS support
Improved Include & Exclude masks
Object storage to tape
Restore to object storage

Primary and secondary storage integrations

Netapp FlexGroup support
IBM snapshot improvements
Cisco Hyperflex Spanned Datastore Support
On-prem archive tier support
Dell Data Domain retention lock support
HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Copy immutability
HPE Alletra MP support

Object Storage (as backup target)

Capacity tier health checks
Improved rescan speed object storage
Google Coldline support
EntraID / Azure AD authentication support
Azure Cold Tier support
On-prem archive tier support
AWS Glacier Accelerated Restore support

Agent management

AIX & Solaris: centralized management
AIX, Solaris & MAC: GFS
AIX & Solaris: direct file restore from console

Veeam Agent Linux on IBM Power

Supported recovery methods
Supported backup options
management

Veeam Agent Linux x86

no-snap support

Veeam Agent for AIX & Solaris

AIX & Solaris agent: local restore console
Recovery token support for bare metal restore
Exclude directories during bare metal restore
AIX & Solaris performance improvements

SureBackup

SureBackup NSX-T support
SureBackup machine exclusions
SureBackup random VM tests

PowerShell & Rest API

Other Useful Features

VeeamONE Analytics in console
Simplified unattended installation
Unattended configuration restore
Veeam AI Assistant
“Publish disks” in console (instead PowerShell)
VeeaMover: fast on same volume
Custom retentions VeeamZip, export, copy
Health Check priority configuration
License from Veeam.com during installation
Linux File level restore: mount to original host
Linux proxies: improved multipath for BfSS
Health check priority over backup jobs
Improved log collection speed
Enterprise Manager enhancements

Cloud Director Self-Service Portal

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Advanced includes all features of Foundation plus Veeam Threat Center, YARA Rules, Key Management Systems, (KMS) Integration, ServiceNow Integration. Real time reporting, analysis and issue remediation.
Premium includes all features of Advanced plus DR to cloud with automation, network quarantine, Recovery plan testing with malware scanning, In-guest scripts for Azure Testing for CDP plans. Compliance and automated, clean and tested recovery.

Veeam Threat Center Dashboard

Additional Content on VBR 12.1...

Please contact me for access to "veeam_backup_12_1_whats_new.pdf"

Please contact me for access to "Veeam-Security-Checklist.pdf"

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