Upgrading to Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 1

After Veeam releases Update 1 for their Availability Suite 9.5 in January 2017 I decided that it is about time to upgrade my complete Veeam Availability Suite environment in my homelab. Currently I’m running the following components in my environment: Veeam Backup and Replication 9.0 Update 2 (9.0.0.1715) Management Server incl. the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Responsible for configuration but not used as proxy Veeam Backup and Replication Proxy Responsible for the backup (Direct NFS) Veeam ONE 9.0 (9.0.0.2062) incl. ONEMonitor, ONEReporter and ONEBusiness View Database for Veeam Backup and Replication: SQL Server 2012 Express SP2 (11.0.5343) incl. Security Update KB3045321 Database for Veeam ONE: SQL Server 2012 Express SP2 (11.0.5058)

Contents

1 Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 1 1.1 Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 1 1.1.1 Platform support 1.1.2 VMware vSphere 6.5 Support 1.1.3 VMware (general) 1.2 Veeam ONE9.5 Update 1 2 Upgrade existing SQL Server 3 Upgrade Veeam ONE9.0 to 9.5 Update 1 4 Upgrade Veeam Backup and Replication9.0 to 9.5 Update 1 4.1 Upgrade Veeam Enterprise Manager 4.2 Upgrade Veeam Backup and Replication

But before we do the upgrade let me give you a quick overviewof new features which are availablein Update 1

Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 1 Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 1 Platform support VMware vSphere 6.5 support VMware vSAN 6.5 support Veeam Agent for Microsoft windows 2.0 Public beta support Veeam Agent for linux 1.0 support HPE StoreOnce 3.15.1 support HPE 3PAR 3.2.2 MU3 support Dell EMC Data Domain OS 6.0 support VMware vSphere 6.5 Support Encrypted VMs support VMFS6 support Virtual Hardware 13 support NBD Compression support (done through VDDK 6.5 New guest interaction API support (switched from VIX API to vSphere API to leverage functions like application-aware processing) New VM Tag API support VMware (general) Direct SAN transport improvements Restore without storage profile Restore logic improvements Broker service enhancements

Here you can find many more improvements.

Veeam ONE9.5 Update 1 General VMware vSphere 6.5 support Asian locales support Monitoring Memory demand for Hyper-V 2016 VMs Reporting Enhanced Backup Custom Infrastructure report Enhanced VM Backup Status report

You can find more detailed information also here .

Upgrade existing SQL Server

Currently the Veeam enviroment is running on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express SP2.

To stay at a supported configuration,I decided to upgraded these components first because of the following 2 issues:

The lifecycle matrix for SQL Server shows that the support end date for SP2 was Jan. 10th, 2017 The database which comes with both products is SQL Server 2012 Express SP3 Stop Services V eeam Backup Enterprise Manager and Veeam Backup Service on the Veeam Backup Management Server Install SQL Server 2012 SP3 After the update is finished start the 2 services again.

On the Veeam ONE server it is the same procedure. The services, that needed to be stopped there are Veeam ONE Monitor Server and Veeam ONE Reporter Server .

After the update the SQL 2012 Server should have version 11.0.6020 .

Upgrade Veeam ONE9.0 to 9.5 Update 1

If you have integrated Veeam Backup and Replication into Veeam ONEthen the first step in the upgrade process is to upgrade Veeam ONEto 9.5 Update 1.

On the Veeam ONE Server, mount the Veeam ONE9.5 ISO image on the Server and select upgrade.

Accept license agreement and click Next.

The upgrade wizard will show you every component which is installed on the current server

Provide a valid license or switch to the Free license. A comparison between free vs. paid license can be found here .

During the System Configuration Check some components need to be updated.

After the installation of the missing or outdated components everything should complete with a“Passed”.

Provide the service account credentials which were used during the initial installation of Veeam ONE.

Check the SQL Server instance and select either Windows authentication or SQL authentication for connecting to the SQL Server.

Choose the Performance Cache folder.Performance cache is space on disk to which Veeam ONE stores real-time performance data, as this data is collected. Performance data stored in cache is used for Veeam ONE Monitor dashboards and views. Disk-based performance cache allows significantly decrease RAM utilization on the machine that runs the Veeam ONE Server component.

Select the Data Collection Mode. The Backup Data Only mode is recommended for users who want to focus on Veeam Backup & Replication monitoring and reporting, and do not need a deep visibility of the virtual infrastructure.

Just click Install and depending on the Veeam ONE database this will take some time.

Update 1 can be applied after Veeam ONE is successfully upgraded to 9.5.

Upgrade Veeam Backup and Replication9.0 to 9.5 Update 1 After Veeam ONE upgrade to 9.5 Update 1 was successful I move to the Backup & Replication upgrade. First I stoppe