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Release Notes for Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 4Cause
Please confirm you are running version 9.5.0.3201, 9.5.0.3254 or 9.5.0.3801 prior to installing this update. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam ONE console. After upgrading, your build will be version 9.5.4.4566.Solution
As a result of on-going R&D effort and in response to customer feedback, Update 4 includes hundreds of enhancements and bug fixes, the most significant of which are listed below.What’s New: Main features
- Veeam Intelligent Diagnostics: Increase availability, save time and reduce support interactions with a proactive identification and alerting of known infrastructure problems with prepared workarounds and resolutions.
- Remediation actions: Improve response times and reduce downtime by automating manual, routine processes associated with fixing common backup and virtual infrastructure-related issues such as snapshot deletion and missed RPOs.
- Business View 2.0: Improve visibility for virtual and agent-based infrastructures by easily grouping VMs and computers into business groups to satisfy specific business needs, through a rebuilt categorization engine embedded in Veeam ONE Monitor.
- Application-level monitoring: Ensure the availability of mission-critical applications running in virtual machines through enhanced, proactive application-level monitoring functionality, including the ability to track an individual application’s health monitoring status as well as manage guest services and processes.
Deployment
- Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2019: All Veeam ONE components can be installed to the Microsoft Windows Server 2019 platform.
- Dedicated view for job and disk-based alarms: Now, each disk and job alarm will trigger independently.
- Enhanced alarms notification engine: All triggers of specific alarm objects now have unique identifiers that can be used for integration with third-party applications.
- Enhanced SNMP monitoring: Now, the Management Information Base (MIB) file includes descriptions and Veeam SNMP IDs.
- Alarm Modelling usability enhancements: Now, you can easily change the scope of objects for modelling as well as choose specific alarms.
- “Veeam ONE Reporter service state” alarm: This alarm improves system self-monitoring by notifying users of high Veeam ONE Reporter service loads to ensure workload stability.
- Single console for categorization: Categorization can now be completed and checked from Veeam ONE Monitor. In addition, categorization workflow has been simplified.
- Simplified categorization workflow: Now, categories and groups can be created and synchronized with virtual infrastructure from a single wizard.
- Support for multiple cardinality: Now, individual objects can be included in multiple groups within one category.
- Enhanced synchronization with virtual infrastructures: Now Business View categories and groups can be synchronized with VMware vSphere tags and Microsoft Hyper-V custom attributes.
- Veeam Agents support: Now, computers protected with Veeam Agents can be categorized for business needs based on various parameters.
- Group owner: An owner can be assigned to each group of categorized objects to receive alarm notifications about its objects.
- New reports layout: All reports now have a renewed, modern design.
- Enhanced login capabilities: Login to Veeam ONE Reporter is now supported in UserName@Domain format.
- Enhanced report branding: Now, JPEG, BMP, GIF and TIFF file extensions are also allowed. The image size requirement is eliminated.
- Enhanced dashboard generation time: Dashboards generation time have been dramatically reduced.
Monitoring
- Enhanced Backup Repositories view: Veeam ONE now provides information about external repositories and capacity tier in scale-out backup repositories.
- Enhanced Cloud Gateway view: Veeam ONE now provides information about gateway pools.
- Enhanced infrastructure objects management: Hosts and servers can now be added and removed in parallel.
- New “Restore activity” alarm: This new alarm notifies users when a restore operation takes place.
- New “Storage snapshot creation failure” alarm: This new alarm notifies users when an integrated storage fails to create a storage snapshot initiated by a Veeam backup job.
- Backup infrastructure diagnostics alarms: This alarm pack is part of the Veeam Intelligent Diagnostics feature which allows detecting common misconfigurations and potential issues in the backup infrastructure.
- New “Backup Infrastructure Audit” report: This report tracks configuration changes in a backup environment, providing a list of events with detailed information about every change for each user.
- New “Backup Objects Change Tracking” report: This report provides detailed information on backup infrastructure configuration changes, showing previous and current settings.
- New “Computer Backup Status” report: This report provides daily backup status information for all computers protected with Veeam Agents.
- New “Computers with no Archive Copy” report: This report highlights agents that lack a secondary backup copy.
- New “Agent Backup Job and Policy History” report: This report provides historical information for Veeam Agent backup policies and jobs.
- Enhanced “Protected Computers” report: Now, the RPO parameter can be set in minutes.
- Enhanced “Backup Custom Infrastructure” report: Computers, protected by Veeam Agents, have been added to the report objects list. A geolocation parameter has been added for VMs and backup repositories. Additional VM and job parameters have been added to the report parameters list.
- Enhanced “Protected VMs” report: Report details now include a reason whether unprotected VMs have no restore points or exceeded RPO. Now, the RPO parameter can be set in minutes. A job filter and information about independent disks have also been added to the report.
- Enhanced “Backup Billing” report: A summary section has been added to the report.
- Enhanced “Veeam Backup Files Growth” report: Compression and deduplication ratio data has been added to the report.
- Enhanced “Configuration Job Change Tracking” report: User-friendly labels are now used for naming job parameters that are displayed in the report.
- Enhanced “Recovery Verification Overview” report: A “Group by” option has been added to the report parameters, in addition to a “Business View” scope option.
- Enhanced “Backup Inventory” report: New Veeam Backup & Replication object types such as gateway pools, external repositories and scale-out backup repository capacity tier are now supported. Veeam Instance Licensing information is also provided in the report details.
- Enhanced “Cloud Connect Inventory” report: New Veeam Backup & Replication object types such as gateway pools, external repositories and scale-out backup repository capacity tier are now supported. Veeam Instance Licensing information is also provided in the report details. Hardware plan storage data has been added to the report.
- Enhanced “Latest Job Status” report: Backup date has been added to the drill-down report.
- Enhanced “Capacity Planning for Backup Repositories” report: An option to choose analysis depth has been added to the report.
- Enhanced “Infrastructure Chargeback” reports. Qatari Rial has been added as a currency option.
- Enhanced “Tape GFS Configurations” and “Tape GFS Backup Files” report: Information about daily increments is now provided in the report details.
- Enhanced “Job History” (Backup Job Historical Information) report: File Copy Job has been added to the report parameters.
- Enhanced “Job Configuration Dump” report: Information about Backup-to-Tape and File-to-Tape jobs has been added to the report.
- Enhanced “Data Sovereignty Overview” report: All objects with a defined location are now provided in the report. An option to show/hide backup infrastructure objects has also been added to the report parameters.
- Enhanced “Latest Job Status” report: Job type filter, as well as information about Backup-to-Tape and File-to-Tape jobs have been added to the report.
- Enhanced “Backup Files Growth” report: An interval option has been added to the report parameters.
- New “Repository Free Space” widget heatmap: This interactive dashboard provides an overview of the free space available in your backup repositories.
- New “Proxy Usage” widget heatmap: This interactive dashboard provides an overview of backup proxy servers workloads allowing optimization of jobs schedules and backup proxy configurations.
- New “Repository Usage” widget heatmap: This interactive dashboard provides an overview of backup repository servers workloads allowing optimization of job schedules and backup repository configuration.
- Enhanced “Protected VMs Overview” widget: This widget now highlights the number of unprotected virtual machines a user currently has.
Enhanced scalability of the Veeam Backup & Replication data collection engine: Backup data is now retrieved in parallel threads.
What’s new: VMware vSphere
Reporting
- Enhanced “Custom Infrastructure” report: “Network adapter type” has been added to the virtual machine object parameters list. Virtual disk provisioning parameter now considers lazy and eager thick provisioning.
- Enhanced “VMs Uptime” and “Power off VMs” reports: Absolute uptime and downtime values have been added to the reports.
- Enhanced “Datastore Space Usage History” report: Top datastores containing the most and least free space have been added to the report.
- Enhanced “Datastore Capacity” report: The datastore used space in the drill-down report layout has been refreshed.
- Enhanced “Raw Performance Data” report: A From/To option has been added to the report parameters.
- Enhanced “VM Performance”, “Host Performance” and “Custom performance” reports: A period option has been added to the report parameters.
- Enhanced “What if Lose 1 Host in a Cluster” widget: The number of failed hosts for analyses is now available for selection.
- Enhanced scalability of the data collection engine: vSphere data is now retrieved in parallel threads.
What’s new: Microsoft Hyper-V
Monitoring
- Microsoft Hyper-V 2019 Support: Veeam ONE now fully supports Microsoft Hyper-V 2019.
- VM power status alarm: This new alarm indicates if a VM is active and functional.
- New “Host Uptime” report: This report provides an overview of host uptime including lists of the hosts with the lowest and highest uptime values.
- Enhanced “VMs Uptime” report: Downtime, restarts and alarm numbers have been added to the report details. In addition, users can generate a drill-down report including details on alarms and restarts.
- Enhanced “Raw Performance Data” report: A From/To option has been added to the report parameters.
- Enhanced “VM Performance”, “Host Performance” and “Custom performance” reports: A period option has been added to the report parameters.
- Enhanced Hyper-V data collection: Hyper-V data is now collected faster and more stable.
- Manual data retention application: Now, data retention can be applied manually to purge SQL data.
Known Issues
- Following the upgrade, the default Business View group titled “Cluster Shared Volume 2012” will be removed from the alarms assignment.
- In “Backup Policy Historical Information” report, the drill-down reports do not provide individual statistics for clustered agents.
- Veeam ONE Reporter’s service time zone is used for report scheduling instead of Reporter Web time zone.
- Change of dependent alarms increases count of the “Max allowed job duration” alarm.
- If a tenant is inactive for 30 days or more, their report scheduling settings will no longer be visible.
- IBM Cloud Object Storage will not be visible in Veeam ONE unless it’s added to the backup console as S3 Compatible storage.
- Veeam ONE Reporter will feature license changes only after a relaunch.
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