The document compares features available in Standard, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus editions of Veeam v7. Key features included in higher editions but not Standard are: backup from storage snapshots, virtual lab replicas, enhanced vCloud Director support, WAN acceleration, native tape support, and additional exploration and recovery tools. The document also provides overviews of Veeam's backup methods including reverse incremental backups and recommendations for optimizing backup jobs.

5. v7 Features
Standard
Enterprise
Built-in WAN Acceleration
Backup Copy jobs
Native tape support
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Backup from Storage Snapshots (VMware only)
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Virtual Lab for Hyper-V (backups only)
Full Instant File-Level Recovery
for Hyper-V (Windows, Linux, et al)
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1-Click Restore for VMs
Self-Service Recovery of VMs and guest files
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Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint 3
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Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange 2013 3
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Task automation 4
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15. Highly efficient
Automatically copies VMs to local or offsite storage location
Validation and remediation ensure copies are available and reliable
Minimizes backup overhead and expense
Enables proper backup and retention policies without extra backups, copy
scripts, or capabilities like storage-based file replication
Backup
Production
storage
Backup Copy
NEW!
Primary
backup storage
Secondary backup
storage

16. 50x faster
Backup
Production
storage
Backup Copy
Primary
backup storage
WAN acceleration
Offsite storage

19. Full
Backup
Forward increments
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21. All blocks are copied from
source storage to the backup
file
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23. Full
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25. All end result is a full backup
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capture a rollback file
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26. Reverse Incremental
Forward Incremental

27. Recommendation
Consideration
Create jobs with VM counts that are
reasonable for the backup window
Estimate 2-3 minutes minimum
overhead per-VM
Create jobs that contain a
manageable amount of data
Total size of VM data within a job:
Local Target (1MB blocks): 8TB
LAN Target (512KB blocks): 4TB
WAN Target (256KB blocks): 2TB
Understand the impact of selecting
VM Objects
Selecting jobs by datastore or host
will cause full backups when VMs
move
Limit the number of exclusions used
in backup object selection.
While intelligent use of exclusions
may be required, complex exclusions
lead to VMs or data not getting
backed up

28. VM
VM
VM
VM
Quick Migration
VM
VM
Production
Datastore
NFS
Backup
Compressed &
Deduplicated
VM
VM
VM
Backup to Disk
Datastore
VM
VM

30. File/Folder Restore:
direct from compressed and
deduplicated Backup file
VM
Virtual Lab
Veeam Explorer for Exchange neu:
direct from compressed and
deduplicated backup file (needs
Exchange 2010)
Universal Application-Item Recovery:
Backup to Disk
isolated environement Datastore Lab)
(Virtual
configured and managed by Veeam
use Instant VM Recovery technology
Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots neu:
Veeam Restores of SAN Snapshots
Support for HP Lefthand/VSA (3Par)
VM
Snapshot
VM
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VM
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31. Guest OS
Supported File System
Linux
ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS (Reiser3
only), JFS, XFS
Unix
JFS, XFS, UFS
BSD
UFS, UFS2
Solaris
UFS, ZFS
Mac
HFS, HFS+
Windows
NTFS, FAT, FAT32, ReFS

35. SureBackup
Verification Job
VM
OS
App
Report
VMware
vPowerTM
vPower NFS
VMWare DataStores
Compressed/
De-duplicated Backup
File
Backup Storage