Comments on: Veeam Backup 3.0.1 required for ESXi Update 4

By: David Siles

David Siles — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:36:18 +0000

Thanks for the update and feedback about your great experience with Veeam. We love our user base. I am always here to help as well, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

By: David Szpunar

David Szpunar — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:53:21 +0000

In reply to Backup Agent.

That’s complete nonsense. As you can see from my update this morning, upgrading to Veeam Backup 3.0.1 fixed the problem and was released (but not installed by me) before ESXi 3.5 Update 4 was out. I’m sure if Veeam Backup stopped working as advertised permanently that they would at least issue refunds to customers. For one, my purchase includes a one-year support contract. I’ve not seen anything about Veeam that makes me think they wouldn’t stand behind their product 100%!

Frankly the comment from “Backup Agent” stinks of being from a competitor trying to spread FUD, but I don’t have more info than so I’ll let it stand on its own.

By: Backup Agent

Backup Agent — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:06:42 +0000

Veeam probably will not work with ESXi Update 4.

From what I understand, Veeam had made the product work by exploiting a few loopholes.

Needless to say, VMware has closed those loopholes with update 4.

By: David Szpunar

David Szpunar — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:24:50 +0000

I said I wasn’t and that I’d be upgrading today, and I will be :-)

By: Anton Gostev

Anton Gostev — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:22:18 +0000

David, from the errors you are getting it sounds like you are not running the latest version of Veeam Backup. We had an update release (3.0.1) released a few weeks ago. Please, upgrade your Veeam Backup installation to the latest version.