Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for: Veeam Data Platform v12.2 is now generally available! Despite being a point release, we’re delivering significant enhanced functionality and many new capabilities, many of which were unveiled for preview at VeeamON in Fort Lauderdale earlier this year.
Long-time customers know when it comes to releases, new features are just part of the story. Another part is why we deliver these features. More than ever, enterprises are looking for stability – not in a “I hope my system doesn’t crash” way (still applicable though), but stability with their data resilience, stability with their datacenter partners, and stability with their strategic plans. Stability is front and center because organizations face key risks every day, such as:
- Cyberattack consequences: Brand damage, eroded customer confidence, and financial losses.
- Data migration risks: Data vulnerability, data loss, compliance, and locality challenges.
- Navigating multiple tools: Leads to confusion and inefficiency.
To successfully navigate these challenges, your business needs a reliable recovery solution that’s flexible, secure, and resilient.
Destination: Data Freedom
At VeeamON 2024, we heard Anand discuss some of the most common challenges facing enterprises today, including relentless ransomware attacks and threats, unexpected rising costs, and lack of data freedom: the ability to securely own, move, and keep your data where it makes the most sense for your business.
A large part of data freedom is not being held hostage by any vendor or platform. As vendor relationships change, so does the data center impact. Whether it’s a hypervisor shift, cloud infrastructure expansion, or moving to best-in-class applications, enterprises need to be agile. With this release, Veeam Data Platform continues delivering on the promise to be the best partner to customers across three unique areas.
- Freedom to Choose
Veeam Data Platform offers scalable, policy-driven protection with unmatched Nutanix Prism integration and data protection for Proxmox VE. This release also introduces protection for MongoDB, featuring immutability, centralized management, and high-speed recovery. Ultimately, Veeam continues to provide you with data freedom.
- Enterprise Migration Experience
Accelerate your journey to the cloud, adopt new hypervisors, or embrace HCI — all on your terms. Veeam raises the bar again by offering support for Amazon FSx, Amazon RedShift, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Data Lake Storage. Make compliance second nature, with orchestrated YARA rule collaboration, advanced discovery, and threat detection.
- Secure, Streamlined Operations
Deepen integration with trusted security partners to better secure and streamline operations, with the upcoming Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM and XSOAR integrations. AI-powered incident response and expanded health-check alarms also deliver faster detection and response, all while maintaining compliance and cost.
Diving Deeper into the Latest Release: VDP v12.2
Proxmox VE Support
Earlier this year, Veeam announced that support for Proxmox VE was on the roadmap. Now, Veeam Data Platform offers a robust and reliable backup solution for Proxmox VE, providing hypervisor protection without requiring the management or use of agents. As a first-class citizen in the platform, Proxmox VE will experience many of the same benefits that Veeam delivers today. From fast and efficient backups to comprehensive monitoring and reporting, you’ll be able to protect your Proxmox VE workloads in an impactful, yet familiar way.
But it’s not just about backups — after all, what good is a backup if it can’t be restored? Powered by Veeam’s Instant Recovery, Proxmox VE workloads can be restored in seconds to vSphere or Hyper-V. In cases where you’re looking at moving to Proxmox, we’ve got a solution for you: Veeam Data Platform 12.2 will allow you to restore backups from any Veeam-protected hypervisor to Proxmox VE!
To sum things up, Veeam’s Proxmox VE support will:
- Empower data freedom with hypervisor flexibility, providing dependability amid industry changes.
- Ensure recovery across your data’s lifecycle with expanded backup immutability support.
- Reduce migration complexities by leveraging your existing backups.
- Save time and space with storage efficient backups.
- Take advantage of Veeam Data Platform’s inherent security capabilities.
Nutanix Prism Central Integration
Nutanix AHV administrators will be excited about this release as Veeam introduces our integration with Nutanix Prism Central. This integration brings many benefits, such as the ability to create policy-based backup jobs by using Nutanix Categories. When creating or adding new workloads, simply tag the VM as part of the process and a Categories-based backup job will automatically start protecting that workload.
Other highlights include centralized image management for your worker nodes, enhanced Nutanix Guest Tools processing controls, and the ability to backup Nutanix replica VMs. Whether it’s due to VMs that are overly sensitive to snapshot latency, network architecture, or any other number of reasons, the ability to backup replica VMs provides enterprises with the flexibility needed to attain the RPOs they require.
Veeam continues to empower you to protect your most critical Nutanix AHV data, and this release keeps moving that needle forward with:
- A unified experience, allowing policy-based backup jobs, while simplifying administration and deployment.
- Flexibility with network design — extending protection to unique architectures, in addition to increased backup security and performance.
- Protection for critical workloads without impacting production.
- Customizable storage policies, aligning you with optimal performance.
Expanded Protection for Enterprise
At the end of the day, applications are what drive business, and virtualization is only part of the story. Veeam has been a trusted provider when it comes to safeguarding physical and cloud workloads for years, and once again, we are expanding our protection scope and adapting to what our customers ask for.
With the V12.2 release, Veeam also introduces backup protection for Linux-based MongoDB workloads. But this isn’t just any regular type of protection. Powered by Veeam Agent for Linux, you can now create image-level backups of hosts within MongoDB replica sets. Automated deployment and protection are made possible by leveraging Protection Groups, letting you easily deploy, configure, and protect MongoDB workloads at scale.
Considering not every IT professional is a MongoDB specialist, this release also introduces the new Veeam Explorer for MongoDB. Powered by a comprehensive backup, administrators can now perform restores in seconds — ranging from entire systems and instances, scaling down to databases, or even collections.
Clearly this isn’t your typical release when it comes to capabilities. With this new workload protection, you experience:
- Immutable MongoDB backups with flexible 3-2-1 rule capabilities.
- High-speed recovery with Veeam Explorer for MongoDB.
- Object storage and deduplication appliances are supported as backup targets.
- Image-based backup with additional recovery options.
- A proven Linux transport technology base.
Evolved Public Cloud Protection
Cloud is a part of every story Veeam tells when it comes to data resilience, and this release is no different. As customers looking to minimize costs without compromising compliance, long-term storage is a common target. This is especially true for data that might be considered “Write Once, Read Never” — data that needs to be kept but may never be looked at. The new Direct to Archive functionality enables businesses to send backups directly from Performance Tier storage (irrespective of the storage used) directly to Archive Tier, reducing costs by skipping the need for it to consume resources within the capacity tier.
On the AWS side of things, Veeam Data Platform extends native resilience to two new AWS services: Amazon FSx and Amazon Redshift, through policy-based protection and fast, automated recovery. This gives you confidence in knowing your cloud workloads are protected, while ensuring data resilience against accidental deletion, corruption, security threats, and more.
As services expand with Microsoft Azure, and as customers adopt these services, Veeam is here to keep partnering with you. Customers can now enjoy protection for two new Azure services: Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. You’ll find the levels of protection you’ve come to expect from Veeam with fast, automated recovery, granular level restores, centralized management of all data protection across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and compliance for applications powered by data stored in these services.
Data Freedom: Resilience you can Trust
The bottom line is, your data needs to be protected. Whether migrating to the cloud or between hypervisors, Veeam Data Platform enables you to migrate, manage, and protect your data with confidence. Veeam continually innovates across many platforms, from Public Cloud, Nutanix AHV, Microsoft Hyper-V, Red Hat, Kubernetes, VMware, and beyond, to ensure you’re prepared for complete data resiliency.
Explore more about this exciting release, watch a demo, and try it out for yourself to see how Veeam gives your business a data resilience advantage, by visiting Veeam Data Platform Latest Release.
Data freedom takes the stage at VeeamON Data Resilience Summit
Our global online event is back! From Oct. 1-2, we’ll pack the broadcast stage with data resilience experts, special guests, all new demos, and more. See new release features in action and get answers to your questions in real time. Register and explore the agenda today.