Attention VMware and Veeam backup users: If you are thinking about upgrading your VMware environment to 6.5, Veeam has a YouTube session for you. Veeam’s own Anton Gostev will be discussing ‘vSphere 6.5 backup gotchas’. As per the Veeam Community Digest, the session will be available to the base install group via his live YouTube channel tomorrow. A recording will be available for all others. In this session, he will be discussing topics that should be considered when upgrading to vSphere 6.5. Topics will include changes to encrypted VMs, NBD transports, VMFS 6, networkless guest processing along with additional information to ensure successful backups. This is a must watch for those weighing the idea of upgrading.

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Update: Here is a link to the recorded session. Definitely worth checking out if you are contemplating an upgrade. Lots of important information to consider, specifically;

• Transport modes and performance degradation
  • Network Backup mode is forced into NBDSSL resulting in degraded backup times.
  • SESparse and Hot-Add requiring a considerable amount of IOPs also degrading performance.
• Inability to enable CBT on machines with snapshots
• vSphere Tags
• Encrypted VMs
  • KMS required.
  • Loss of transport modes.