Wouldn’t it be nice to know things are going to break and fix them, before they do? Veeam Intelligent Diagnostics does exactly that.
Veeam 9.5 update#
Even before Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 4, I was a fan, but this new release adds even more great features, my favorite being Veeam Intelligent Diagnostics. Veeam Intelligent Diagnostic is part of Veeam ONE, which is another Veeam product I spent a good amount of time with this year. Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 4: Veeam Intelligent Diagnostics Now you can have peace of mind when hitting the restore button, and peace of mind that the right people are pressing the restore button. Veeam DataLabs Secure Restore solves this problem by making sure your virtual machines are squeaky clean. You can even leverage Veeam DataLabs Secure Restore when restoring to the cloud. Veeam DataLabs Secure Restore simply mounts the drives from the impacted virtual machines, and scans them for malware, ransomware, and viruses. While I have no inside knowledge of this ransomware attack or recovery, my bet would be that infected systems were restored, and started the attack all over again. One article mentioned something along the lines of “the security patches did not hold”. If you follow me on Twitter, you may remember me losing my mind over coverage of the LA Times ransomware attack. With Veeam DataLabs Secure Restore, you can scan your virtual machines for malware as part of the restore process to ensure you are restoring clean machines to production. Let’s face it, it is not a matter of if an organization gets hit by ransomware, it is a matter of when. Veeam DataLabs Secure Restore is one of my favorite features. I have worked extensively with Veeam DataLabs in the last year, since they are used so heavily in Veeam Availability Orchestrator. Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4: Veeam DataLabs Secure Restore The Veeam Enterprise Manager interface is also extremely easy to use for virtual machine users and administrators. Within a few minutes, your users will be empowered to backup and restore whatever virtual machines they need to, without entering a ticket or waiting for a response to an email. To set up vSphere RBAC for self service, all you need to do is add a group or account, assign a quota, and select your delegation method, all of which will be familiar to anyone with experience with VMware vSphere: Leveraging already existing vSphere permissions makes it easy to grant and control access to virtual machines. For everything you ever wanted to know about VMware vSphere tags, check out this post: vSphere tags are easy to set up and manage, either through the vSphere Client or with PowerCLI. For a refresher on VMware vSphere roles and permissions, be sure to check out this guide:īeyond Roles and Permissions, we can also use VMware vSphere tags to allow access to virtual machines. Besides making sure everyone can do their job, it is a big part of making sure our VMware vSphere environments remain secure. We all have a permissions scheme in place for managing our VMware vSphere environments. VMware vSphere Users can simply use the Veeam Enterprise Manager web interface to do what they need to do, when they need to do it. The fact of the matter is vSphere RBAC for self service is super simple to set up, and super powerful. I sort of adopted this feature many months ago after my team first spoke with Veeam R&D about what was included in Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4. Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4: Self Service Backups and Restores with VMware vSphere Role Based Access Control (vSphere RBAC) You can find the release notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.4 U4 here, and the release notes for Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 4 here. Now that we have gotten that out of the way, let’s talk about some of my favorite features in Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4. Veeam Availability Suite = Veeam Backup & Replication + Veeam ONE Veeam Availability Suite is simply the combination of Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE. If you are reading this and going wondering what I am talking about, it is simple. While there are a whole slew of great features in this release (and since I am on the Product Strategy team at Veeam I have been playing with them in the lab for months), I wanted to focus on a few of my favorites, and how some my favorites pertain to a more secure IT infrastructure. Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4 has been released as of January 22, 2019.