[XCP] XCP-ng support

[kiu893]

Hello,
I work with Veeam at my company, and we are switching to XCP-NG. Could you send me the binary that supports XCP so we can test it in our lab?

Thank you

[Gostev]

We don't have a public beta for XCP-ng yet but are planning to make it available in a few weeks after addressing a few gaps in the current build.

[zimeon]

Sounds good to have Veeam support XCP-NG!

[evanrac]

Hi team, as Oliver points out in the first post, "Bonus points: if you do the VEEAM integration for XCP-ng API, you will also automatically have it for XenServer, since we use the same API. 2 birds one stone!"

Will XenServer 8 be officially supported then along with XCP-ng for this upcoming integration? We are currently using Veeam agents to do hypervisor agnostic backups on our XenServer cluster, would love to move this to a hypervisor aware backup system if at all possible, when fully released.

Cheers!

[Andreas Neufert]

Hi Evan, this is too early to say.

[datpa]

This are really great news for our team!

We are currently in the process of migrating from VMWare to XCP-ng and are already starting to miss some features of Veeam.

We are really looking forward to switching back to Veeam once the first stable release is available.

[Gostev]

Good news all, public beta of our XCP-ng integration is now available.

We shipped it as a custom Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3.2 ISO specifically to drive people to perform a separate evaluation-only install instead of dropping the plug-in into the existing production Veeam server, as to prevent any possible impact of the pre-release code on your production backups.

You may also notice that the usage reporting is required to be enabled in this beta, which is not something we have ever done before. We're doing this because I really need the beta usage data to gauge the real interest in our XCP-ng integration, and present these numbers to the business to get the approval to move forward with the actual release. There's no telemetry of any kind with the usage reporting, Veeam only gets unique installation ID (GUID) and the number of protected VMs. So we will know the total number of unique beta deployments and the number of VMs protected by each, nothing more.

[Gostev]

Moving this thread to the KVM zoo meanwhile as there's no better place at this time.
I fully understand that XCP-ng is not based on KVM, please don't roast me for doing that.
This is also where PMs have created the beta announcement topic anyway.

@olivierlambert FYI on public beta.