


As the foundation of Veeam Platform, Veeam Backup & Replication delivers simple, flexible, reliable and powerful data protection. The Veeam vSphere Web Client Plug-In is longer supported by VMware due to the deprecation of legacy local plugins in vSphere 8.įull support for VMware vSphere 8.0 will be available with a future Veeam Backup & Replication release.Ī supported Disaster and Recovery solution for vSphere 8 workloads means that at least one box can be checked on the path to adopting vSphere 8 for many organizations.Veeam Backup & Replication is the single backup, recovery and data security solution for all workloads, both on-premises and in the cloud.The new Guest OS Family/Version options included with vSphere 8 are not recognized by Veeam Backup & Replication and, as a result, are not supported.Virtual Machines using Hardware Version 20 are not supported.Continuous Data Protection (CDP) is not supported.However, in Veeam Backup and Replication v11a, the following limitations apply: Testing and has determined that this version is functional with vSphere 8.0. P20220302) of Veeam Backup & Replication. Veeam's Research and Development team has performed extensive testing with version 11a P20220302 (build 11. Veeam Backup and Replication v11a supports Vmware vSphere 8 Veeam made their announcement after only 73 days. Veeam shared that their goal is to support new versions of hypervisors within 90 days of General Availability.

Up to Veeam’s communications this Friday, Veeam Backup & Replication didn’t officially support VMware vSphere 8.0. To be in a supported state, the entire organizational ecosystem surrounding the virtualization platform should consist of supported components. This release was 6 weeks ahead of VMware’s end or support for both vSphere 6.5 and vSphere 6,7, offering organizations a choice again between two versions.īut alas, this choice was not a realistic choice, as a new release of one infrastructure component might negatively affect other components. VMware announced this version on August 30th, 2022, to supersede its troubled v7.0 releases. VSphere 8.0 is currently the most recent version of vSphere.

VSphere is VMware’s advanced server virtualization solution, consisting of ESXi (the core virtualization product that is installed on host machines – a type 1 hypervisor) and vCenter Server (the solution to manage multiple ESXi hosts as a platform). Hot on the heels of VMware Explore Europe, Veeam announced its support for VMware vSphere 8.0.
