During this week, the long-awaited news arrived: Veeam 12.2 is finally available for download.
As previewed in this article, there are many new features compared to the previous version.
The main ones are:
- support for Proxmox VE, with immutability on backup and cross-platform VM restore capability
- improved Nutanix integration, including support for backup operations via Prism Central with Veeam backup for Nutanix AHV 6
- native backup support for Mongo DB, one of the most popular NoSQL databases, including the classic explorer for granular restores
- full support for VMware vSphere 8.0 U3 and VMware Cloud Director 10.6
- improvement of integrations with IBM Db2 and SAP HANA
- support for Amazon Redshift and Amazon Fsx
- support for Microsoft Azure Data Lake and Cosmos DB
In addition to the above, some of the most interesting improved features include:
- support for direct offload from performance tier to archive tier for all types of repositories present on-prem in the SOBR
- CDP I/O Filter Cross Compatibility, to also support older versions (12.0 and 12.1)
- Veeam App for Splunk, an extension that allows users of the popular software to monitor the status of the Veeam backup environment
- introduction of two new RBAC roles, Incident API Operator and Security Administrator
- new checks added in the Security & Compliance Analyzer
- sure backup continuous schedule, selecting specific time windows
- database authentication for Oracle RMAN Plugin
- intelligent SOBR extent selection for backup of unstructured data
- immutable snapshots integration for HPE Storage Arrays
For the full list of all new features, see the vendor’s official document here.
Enjoy! 💚