We may well be talking cross purposes here as our our site doesn't have any Linux hosts that are managed by Veeam.
As a specific example of what I am complaining about, a really simple update from 12.2 to 12.3 on a Hyper-V server. Just a dedicated Veeam server VM and the Hyper-V host. Repo is a NAS so not involved.
After the update, on the Veeam server, I have these extra programs that are not required (and, unless they were new features, had been removed before):
Veeam Plug-in for Enterprise Applications Redistibutable
Agent for Linux Redistributable
Agent for Mac Redistributable
Agent for Unix Redistributable
Veeam Threat Hunter
Veeam Backup vPowerNFS
VMwareVDDK
Microsoft Entra ID plug-in
oVirt KVM Plug-in
Promox Plug-in
Nutanix Plug-in
Azure Plug-in
Kasten Plug-in
Google Cloud Plug-in
AWS Plugin
MS Windows Desktop Runtime (required dependancy for an unwanted plug-in)
MS ASP .NET Core (required dependancy for an unwanted plug-in)
MS Edge Webview (required dependancy for an unwanted plug-in)
On the host, we get these added:
Veeam Threat Hunter
VMwareVDDK
Firstly, why doesn't the installation software add the simple option of what plug-ins you want installed (upgrade or new install)?! This would avoid 65% of the unwanted software being installed.
Secondly, why does the upgrade insist on installing upgrades to software I didn't have installed? We don't need Veeam Backup vPowerNFS and VMwareVDDK (we are Windows and Hyper-V only) so why keep reinstalling them at every upgrade, even though they weren't installed prior to the upgrade?
Thirdly, we now find that if we remove some software we don't need, like Agent for Linux Redistributable and Agent for Unix Redistributable, it just gets reinstalled when we make changes to protection groups, even though there are no Linux or Unix agents.
I can understand installing software for a new feature like Threat Hunter (even if we aren't going to use it) but all this software just has to be uninstalled again.
As a specific example of what I am complaining about, a really simple update from 12.2 to 12.3 on a Hyper-V server. Just a dedicated Veeam server VM and the Hyper-V host. Repo is a NAS so not involved.
After the update, on the Veeam server, I have these extra programs that are not required (and, unless they were new features, had been removed before):
Veeam Plug-in for Enterprise Applications Redistibutable
Agent for Linux Redistributable
Agent for Mac Redistributable
Agent for Unix Redistributable
Veeam Threat Hunter
Veeam Backup vPowerNFS
VMwareVDDK
Microsoft Entra ID plug-in
oVirt KVM Plug-in
Promox Plug-in
Nutanix Plug-in
Azure Plug-in
Kasten Plug-in
Google Cloud Plug-in
AWS Plugin
MS Windows Desktop Runtime (required dependancy for an unwanted plug-in)
MS ASP .NET Core (required dependancy for an unwanted plug-in)
MS Edge Webview (required dependancy for an unwanted plug-in)
On the host, we get these added:
Veeam Threat Hunter
VMwareVDDK
Firstly, why doesn't the installation software add the simple option of what plug-ins you want installed (upgrade or new install)?! This would avoid 65% of the unwanted software being installed.
Secondly, why does the upgrade insist on installing upgrades to software I didn't have installed? We don't need Veeam Backup vPowerNFS and VMwareVDDK (we are Windows and Hyper-V only) so why keep reinstalling them at every upgrade, even though they weren't installed prior to the upgrade?
Thirdly, we now find that if we remove some software we don't need, like Agent for Linux Redistributable and Agent for Unix Redistributable, it just gets reinstalled when we make changes to protection groups, even though there are no Linux or Unix agents.
I can understand installing software for a new feature like Threat Hunter (even if we aren't going to use it) but all this software just has to be uninstalled again.
Statistics: Posted by JPMS — Jan 17, 2025 2:57 pm
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