Future plans for new features and options

[simeonh]

Hi there,

Just wondering if Veeam have any future plans to do backups of esxi servers and physical servers, so it could be a one stop shop for backup, rather than haven't to use other backup solutions for doing these takes.

[Gostev]

Hi, we definitely do have plans to backup physical servers down the road too, in addition to virtual. You can definitely expect this sooner rather than later. Thanks.

[gshaw]

This would be very handy for us as we migrate from physical to virtual... how soon is very soon

[_d1z]

Are there plans for storage hw snapshots support?

[E.Kok]

It would be a nice feature to be able to restore VM's from a Copy job.

[Gostev]

This would be very handy for us as we migrate from physical to virtual... how soon is very soon

I never said "very soon".

Are there plans for storage hw snapshots support?

For Hyper-V backup, in the very first release. For VMware backup, most likely not sooner than VMware makes VMFS an open file system, so we can actually read data from it directly (like in case with NTFS), without being forced to go through vStorage API that in turn requires regular VMware snapshots to be created and used.

It would be a nice feature to be able to restore VM's from a Copy job.

This I do not understand. All you need to do to complete the "restore" after VM Copy job is to double-click the VMX file in vSphere Client (which registers the VM).