query on v5 - vsphere 5 support

[Bunce]

We've held off upgrading to v6 due to a couple of the remaining known issues.

While the FAQ clearly states v 5 does not support vsphere5, I was wondering if anyone had tried running veeam5 backups with only vcenter upgraded to v5 while esx hosts still on v4?

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Andrew, actually Veeam B&R v5 does support vSphere 5. Please refer to this KB1311 article for more info.

[Bunce]

Thanks Vitaly.

All good, however had another issue.

For anyone going through the same thing, you may notice duplicate datastores after upgrading Vcenter to V5 - the previous copy becomes inactive and Veeam cannot connect with a SOAP error similar to:

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Can't process object ADL-FPS02.
Invalid SoapPath fullName: 'sanfs://vmfs_uuid:4c882201-21eb2c8d-8a24-18a905529cc2/Win-7RTM-Ent-x86 (ADL)/Win-7RTM-Ent-x86 (ADL).vmtx'.

Strangely, the file it points to is actually a VM template.

Fix is to remove any templates from the VC inventory at which point the duplicate datastores immediately disappear.

Veeam can then connect, and jobs runs OK.

Summarised here:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/338927