As with any new major release, early adopters will weigh risk vs. reward on jumping on it. And with Veeam Software Appliance, considerations are even more complex due to the move to a re-platformed solution. I tried to group main considerations below.
Stability and Reliability
Making the Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) code cross-platform required removing all Windows OS dependencies, from basic WinAPI calls to the usage Microsoft RPC protocol, which resulted in over 60% of codebase updated – significantly more than in any previous major releases, increasing the risks of encountering teething issues in the business logic.
The good news is that our core engine has been cross-platform since inception, which is what allowed us to support running backup infrastructure components on Linux since V1. Written in native code and always compiled for both Windows and Linux, this holy grail of VBR is least impacted by the transition, and we expect the least surprises here.
Scalability and Performance
Simply put, V13 blows all previous versions out of the water as it comes to performance and scalability, and that's not even specific to the fact that Veeam Software Appliance is Linux based, as Windows installable software will offer the same improvements – because they are in the shared cross-platform code. My only concern here would be corner cases of complex deployments scenarios that have potentially escaped our performance QA labs. But in general, there should be little to worry about these two aspects.
Total Cost of Ownership
While being an early adopter of a major release of any software generally means spending more time on the phone with Technical Support, Veeam Software Appliance specifically offers significant TCO reduction for new deployments which may balance this out. Here’s direct feedback from one of our beta testers who is committed to jumping on the early release immediately:
Stability and Reliability
Making the Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) code cross-platform required removing all Windows OS dependencies, from basic WinAPI calls to the usage Microsoft RPC protocol, which resulted in over 60% of codebase updated – significantly more than in any previous major releases, increasing the risks of encountering teething issues in the business logic.
The good news is that our core engine has been cross-platform since inception, which is what allowed us to support running backup infrastructure components on Linux since V1. Written in native code and always compiled for both Windows and Linux, this holy grail of VBR is least impacted by the transition, and we expect the least surprises here.
Scalability and Performance
Simply put, V13 blows all previous versions out of the water as it comes to performance and scalability, and that's not even specific to the fact that Veeam Software Appliance is Linux based, as Windows installable software will offer the same improvements – because they are in the shared cross-platform code. My only concern here would be corner cases of complex deployments scenarios that have potentially escaped our performance QA labs. But in general, there should be little to worry about these two aspects.
Total Cost of Ownership
While being an early adopter of a major release of any software generally means spending more time on the phone with Technical Support, Veeam Software Appliance specifically offers significant TCO reduction for new deployments which may balance this out. Here’s direct feedback from one of our beta testers who is committed to jumping on the early release immediately:
They are aware that they will be an early adopter, that Veeam Software Appliance is a totally new product and can contain some bugs. The main reasons why they would like to start immediately with VSA are:
- It saves them a whole lot of work if they don’t have to set up a new backup domain
- No new backup domain will also save them time on configuring the network, firewalls, etc.
- VSA is pre-hardened and is secure out of the box, which further saves time
- Automatic patching is also a huge time saver
- They are impressed by some new V13 features
Statistics: Posted by Gostev — Sep 03, 2025 9:47 am
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