ESX 3.5 vs vSphere 4.1 Should we upgrade ESX?

[johanb2b]

Hi,

I have only ESX 3.5 hosts with enterprise licenses installed. Wich features of Veeam 5 can we not take advantage of when running ESX 3.5 compared to vSphere 4.1?

Regards, Johan

[Vitaliy S.]

Hello Johan,

Veeam Backup and Replication 5 fully supports ESX 3.5 hosts, though you won't be able to use VMware change block tracking during your incremental job passes, as it was introduced in vSphere release only.

Thanks!

[Gostev]

CBT is absolutely huge. You should upgrade without any doubt. But answering your question, yes you will not loose a single v5 feature by not upgrading (considering that CBT support was v4 feature).