Veeam Plugin for Scale Computing Hypercore 1.1 Release Notes
This document provides last-minute information about Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore 1.1, including system requirements, installation procedure, as well as relevant information on technical support, documentation, and online resources.
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System Requirements
Platform
Scale Computing HyperCore version 9.4.32 or later.
Virtual Hardware
Workers are Linux-based VMs that are distributed among the cluster hosts (nodes) and are automatically launched for the duration of a backup or restore process. VMs running as dedicated workers must be configured with 2 vCPUs and 2 GB of RAM for the base operating system and attendant services along with the following compute resources for each concurrent task:
- CPU: 1 vCPU
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
If you deploy a worker using the default configuration, the following compute resources will be allocated to a VM:
- CPU: 6 vCPU
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Disk Space: 100 GB for product installation, internal database files, logs, and other data
While configuring dedicated workers, follow the recommendations described in the Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore User Guide.
Veeam Backup & Replication
Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore may be installed on the Veeam Backup & Replication version 12.3.2 server.
Version 1.1 Features
Fully Integrated Architecture – management, backup and restore tasks are entirely executed within the context of the plug-in operation in conjunction with Veeam Backup & Replication. No ancillary appliance deployment is required.
Backup – image level backup with full and CBT-enabled incremental backup
Backup Jobs – job source definitions include VMs, tags, and cluster scopes
Backup Exclusions – VM and disk level exclusions are supported.
Repositories – support for all backup repository types (except hyper-scaler appliances and Veeam Cloud Connect)
Read Optimization – swapfile, dirty blocks processing exclusions for NTFS
Notifications – per-job and global email notifications
Storage Optimization – customizable compression level and block size
Backup Health – scheduled health check
Tape – backup to tape support
Mobility – VM restore to/from Nutanix AHV/Proxmox VE/KVM/AWS/Azure/Google Cloud
Instant Recovery – instant recovery to VMware/Hyper-V/Nutanix AHV
Disk Volumes – export as .VMDK/.VHD/.VHDX; Disk publishing for Windows/Linux
Granular Restore – file-level restore, Application-level restore (Veeam Explorers, heuristics mode only)
Malware Detection:
- Inline scanning (entropy analysis)
- SureBackup scheduled scans
- YARA suspicious file detection
- Veeam Threat Hunter
- Ad hoc scanning
Security:
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) access control
- Four-eyes authorization support
Known Issues and Limitations
- If a Scale Computing HyperCore cluster node is unavailable for any reason snapshot operations are disabled cluster wide. Backup operations will fail in this scenario.
- HyperCore clusters do not support a cluster virtual IP of any sort hence if the cluster node defining the connection to the cluster is unavailable backup/restore operations will cease.
- HyperCore VMs limit individual disk volumes to a maximum size of 16 TB.
- Application-aware processing is not supported in the version 1.1.
- Instant recovery to HyperCore is not supported in the version 1.1.
Backup Infrastructure
Workers
- Installing worker updates is performed on each worker start. To disable automatic updates (for example, if your infrastructure does not have connection to Internet) disable the Check for updates online option in the worker advanced network settings dialog.
- Starting workers for data processing is performed serially not in parallel, that is, no new worker starts until the prior worker has been prepared.
- Workers may start on the same host if automatic host affinity is enabled, and the number of workers has exceeded the number of hosts in the cluster.
Configuration Backup and Restore
- Configuration backup of backup appliances is created automatically with Veeam Backup & Replication configuration backup if configuration backup encryption is turned on.
- Configuration backup cannot be restored onto multiple backup appliances to avoid job collision. If you want to restore configuration on another backup appliance, remove the original backup appliance first.
Veeam Backup & Replication Repository
- Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore does not support storing backups in Veeam Cloud Connect and and HPE Cloud Bank Storage repositories.
- If a standalone Veeam Backup & Replication repository extent storing HyperCore backups is migrated into a SOBR, backup jobs will begin to fail with unknown repository errors. Editing the backup job to target the SOBR repository will correct the issue.
- Only file-level restores are available for backups created by Veeam Backup for HyperCore/AHV/Proxmox/RHV and stored on HPE Cloud Bank Storage.
Data Protection
Backup Jobs
- Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore creates forward incremental per-VM backup chains (one backup chain contains data for one VM). When you add several VMs to a backup job, Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore creates individual backup chains on the Veeam backup repository, one for each VM processed by the job. Note that for forward incremental backup chains, you can create active or synthetic full backups. For more information, see the Backup Methods section of the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.
- By default, Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore applies the following deduplication and compression settings to backed-up data:
- Deduplication: Enabled
- Data compression level: Optimal
- Storage optimization: 1MB
Due to technical limitations, you cannot change deduplication settings while configuring backup jobs.
- By default, backup encryption is disabled for backed-up data. However, you can enable encryption at the repository level. For more information, see the Access Permissions section of the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.
- Since Veeam Backup & Replication does not allow you to assign information about locations to Scale Computing HyperCore clusters and backup appliances, job statistics do not include information on the Scale Computing HyperCore VM data migration between different geographic regions.
- Manual Move backup functionality is not supported for Scale Computing HyperCore backups.
Backup From Replica Site
- Scale Computing HyperCore supports VM replication, however backup from replica copy is not supported.
Health Check
- Second Health Check of same data corrupt returns green session (disk is skipped from processing)
Backup Import Operations
- Backups cannot be imported from unsupported repository types. This can affect importing from backup copy jobs.
Backup Copy
- Backup Copy exclusions does not accept Scale Computing HyperCore jobs and objects.
VeeamZIP
- VeeamZIP retention is not supported.
- An SMB share that requires authentication cannot be specified as a local or shared folder. However, it can be added to the backup infrastructure and then set as backup repository.
Restore in Veeam Backup & Replication Console
- If you restore the VM from a backup stored in the archive tier of the scale-out backup repository, you must first retrieve backup data as described in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Retrieving Backup Files. Note that you cannot perform Entire VM restore from backups stored in the archive tier that consists of the Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval extent. For those backups, you can perform Instant Recovery.
- If you restore the VM from a backup of a VMware, Hyper-V, oVirt KVM, Proxmox VE, or Nutanix AHV VM or from a backup created by Veeam Agent, a restored VM may have network connection problems. To resolve the issue, install Scale Guest Tools on the restored VM.
- You cannot perform Entire VM Restore to Scale Computing HyperCore from a Veeam Cloud Connect repository or an external repository. However, you can use Instant Recovery to restore VMs to Nutanix AHV from Veeam Cloud Connect or external repositories.
- You cannot perform VM restore from a tape to Scale Computing HyperCore. A tape backup needs to be returned to a supported repository to complete the restore operation.
File-Level Restore
- If you want to perform file-level restore from volume group disks, you should run FLR from backups of the VM that have the required volume group attached to them.
- You can use Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager to file-level restore guest OS files of Scale Computing HyperCore VMs and manage Scale Computing HyperCore VM backup copy jobs. All other operations are not supported.
Instant Recovery
- You can perform instant recovery to Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V hosts from backups created by Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore. These hosts must be added to the Veeam Backup & Replication backup infrastructure.
- It is recommended to deploy a dedicated host as a mount server and allocate a minimum of 512 MB of additional RAM for each VM disk that you want to recover at the same time. For example, if you restore a VM with 4 disks, you need an additional 2 GB of RAM on the mount server.
- If you perform Instant Recovery using a VM backup stored in the archive tier of the scale-out backup repository, you must first retrieve backup data as described in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Retrieving Backup Files. Note that this requirement is not applicable to backups stored in the archive tier that consists of the Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval extent.
Recovery Verification
- SureBackup for backups created by Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore is supported in the Backup verification and content scan only verification mode.
Deploying Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore
To deploy Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore 1.1, do the following:
- Install Veeam Backup & Replication 12 (12.3.2.3617 or later) and configure a backup repository that will be used as a target for VM backups.
- Install Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore.
- In the Veeam Backup & Replication console, add a Scale Computing HyperCore cluster node to the backup infrastructure.
For detailed instructions, see the Deployment section of the Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore User Guide.
Licensing
Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore is licensed by the number of protected Scale Computing HyperCore VMs. Each protected Scale Computing HyperCore VM consumes one Veeam Universal License instance from the license scope. A Scale Computing HyperCore VM is considered protected if it has a restore point created during the past 31 days. If a Scale Computing HyperCore VM is protected with snapshots only, no license is consumed.
For more information, the Licensing section of the Veeam Plug-in for Scale Computing HyperCore User Guide.
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Technical Documentation References
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