HPE VM Essentials

[Jos.maliepaard]

HPE is heaviliy promoting their new KVM based hypervisor and telling that the ecosystem is almost ready supporting this hypervisor. I'm wondering what Veeam's statement is to support this new HPE VM Essentials in VBR

[Gostev]

As always and with any other hypervisors, we will monitor the adoption and consider native integration if it gets a decent market share. VBR is easily extensible to support new hypervisors these days and we already have a good expertise with KVM-based hypervisors in-house so it shouldn't be a challenge. However, we need to make sure there's enough opportunity to at least cover R&D and on-going Support costs.

[HPEStorageGuy]

@Gostev - you now have me on the Morpheus team. Day 1 on the team was when you posted your reply.

While I totally understand waiting to ensure the opportunity is worth the investment, you will see the KVM that is in HPE VM Essentials appear in other solutions from HPE - like HPE Private Cloud Business Edition, Private Cloud Enterprise, and Private Cloud AI. Those plans are in motion.

BTW, since I'm not (and haven't been) the HPEStorageGuy, can you point me to someone that can help me update my profile name?

[Gostev]

Nice! So... should it be HPEVMEssentialsGuy now?

[DavidRobertson]

Watching with interest, we have a number of ongoing customer conversations around VME and the wider GL story where the other non-Broadcom options aren't a fit. Veeam is the last piece of that puzzle.

[HPEStorageGuy]

HPE is all-in on VME and how Morpheus will fit into the broader echo-system of hybrid cloud management. "Self-service" automation across many (more than 20) public and private clouds is what the Morpheus platform is famous for. Heard a story of a customer trying to get vRA (Cloud Assembly) running for over a year with an army of professional services. Morpheus had a PoC running in less than a day.

Note there is a 60 day free trial of VME if anyone wants to play with it. Here's where you can download the trial and watch videos (step-by-step) of getting it running. I also just brought up an HPE VME community forum where technical questions get answered.

[Gostev]

@HPEStorageGuy if HPE is truly "all-in" and serious about conquering on-prem hypervisor market, may I suggest that you seriously consider some free offering, which almost all of your competitors offer. It's just highly unlikely for IT Pros like myself to randomly decide to spend their time putting something in their home lab that I can't use long term if I end up liking it. Your best hope is their management forces them to evaluate, which will be a completely different type of marriage - not "by love"

Best of luck with this initiative and I truly am thrilled to see HPE stepping into the playing field. It will be interesting to watch how this plays out given how crowded said field already is, which is of course well balanced by all the horse power HPE can potentially throw behind this offering. Exciting times!

[HPEStorageGuy]

Copy/pasting into Slack for the PM team. As you know, revenue is always a factor, especially when there's an acquistion in the mix.

[vinc720]

The challenge for this HPE VM Essentials using Veeam Agents where is a challenge to manage in enterprise level backup. Hope Veeam can make an agentless solution with it so i believe many people out there and also myself are looking for a better VM Alternative Solution.

[RuaanP]

Hi
Does anyone know if you are able to use Veeam replication from a VMware cluster to a HPE VM essentials cluster? A Veeam replication job and then the Veeam failover and planned failover capabilities like you would have between 2 VMware clusters.
Thanks

[Gostev]

Hi, Ruaan. No as Veeam does not currently support HPE VM Essentials for host-based backup and replication in principle. Thanks

[RuaanP]

Thank you, noted

[larkrist]

About support for HPE VME, it's crucial to have Veeam supporting this with host based backup before we can put this into production, Agent based is not a good alternative in bigger enterprises.
We will need this support fast, and we have already started the process in the market to deliver HPE VME.

[JaySt]

looking forward to VME being supported by Veeam!

[jcollins1]

I am also throwing in here, we are switching to VME pending bid acceptance.

It is going to happen. We love VEEAM and do not want to lose its features. I will echo here that agent-based options are not good enough for our infrastructure. We want to continue being a VEEAM customer, but if support for VME isn't at least on the timeline, we will not be renewing our VEEAM license and support.

Hint: We want to keep paying VEEAM.

[sabicao]

+1 on a request for Veeam to fully support HPE VME.

[MaartenA]

Yes, full support would be very nice!