Today Veeam released something awesome! Veeam 6.1. Normally I don’t blog about products Eagle, the company I work for, doesn’t currently sell. This is a special case. Veeam has released something that I am excited to talk about.
Rick Vanover (@RickVanover) invited me to a sneak peak of Veeam 6.1 last Friday. During this peak I got to see many of the new features of Veeam 6.1. The one that really excited me was VeeamZIP.
What was the first part that excited me about VeeamZIP? The fact that its free! Yeup that’s right free. You get VeeamZIP as part of the free version of Veeam 6.1.
What else excited me about this release? Simply what you can do with VeeamZIP. What’s that? You can extract your VM’s from your virtual environment.
Why is that a big deal? You can do the following:
- Archive your VM’s for later use
- Move them via Sneaker Net from one site to another.
- Distribute the VM’s quickly.
So what’s this mean for me?
It means I can do a lot. Now I can build VM’s for my clients at my facility and bring them to my clients on a usb device and they have very few hoops to jump through to use it. I can grab a base copy of important VM configurations and save them off into an archive so if I need to reconstruct the system before my SE hosed an environment.
The possibilities are endless. Its worth checking out Veeam 6.1 just for VeeamZIP alone.
Hate to cut this post short but I’m at a clients site and its time to get the day started!
Cheers,
Tony
