Skip to content
Luca Dell'Oca Principal Cloud Architect @Veeam
Virtual To The Core Virtual To The Core

Virtualization blog, the italian way.

Virtual To The Core
Virtual To The Core

Virtualization blog, the italian way.

#Veeam Backup & Replication and vSphere 5.1 support

Luca Dell'Oca, September 13, 2012December 4, 2016

The hype around the new vSphere 5.1 is going strong these days, and many people downloaded and installed it as soon as the binaries were available. Many of them installed it upgrading their current 5.0 environment, but they got many problems with Veeam 6.1 jobs failing with errors.

In one sentence: vSphere 5.1 is NOT supported on Veeam 6.1. You need to wait for 6.5. Dot.

If you care about your environment, your due diligence is to check before all the release notes coming out from VMware along with the new release. There are many changes that involve many aspects, and in a production environment you have to be sure every piece of your infrastructure is compatible with each other. Storage firmwares (read here for problems with Synology), View installations (none is supported yet, read here), and if you came here for some uuid errors, yes even Veeam Backup 6.1.

Maish Saidel-Keesing did a wonderful job by commenting the complete release notes, highlighting all the doubt and issues. Go here and read it carefully.

Only when all your components are ready for vSphere 5.1, you can safely upgrade.

If you upgraded vSphere to 5.1 probably now your Veeam backups are failing with this error:

Error: Host with uuid ‘30303734-3536-5a43-4339-343030543957’ was not found

well, first of all remember, you are not supported. Keeping this in mind, there is a little trick at least to make your backups run again: go to Veeam licensing, revoke the licenses applied to ESXi 5.0 hosts, so Veeam can hopefully reassign the same licenses to ESXi 5.1 hosts.

Even with this workaround, I have not tested anything with vSphere 5.1, so I do not know for example if virtual machines with virtual hardware 9 will be supported or not.

Data protection of your virtualized infrastructure is important, are you sure you want to screw everything just to be cool and tell the world you are among the first using vSphere 5.1? There is a compelling reason to upgrade? Some new feature you desperately need?

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
  • Tumblr
  • Pinterest
  • Reddit
  • WhatsApp
  • Pocket
Tech 5.16.1backupuuidveeamvsphere

Post navigation

Previous post
Next post

Search

Sponsors

Latest Posts

  • My Automated Lab project: #2 Create a Ubuntu template in VMware vSphere with Packer
  • My Automated Lab project: #1 Install and configure the needed tools
  • Calculate space savings of a XFS volume with reflink and Veeam fast clone
  • A new whitepaper: Veeam Backup & Replication V12 enhanced security and scalability with object storage Secure Mode
  • Enable EVC mode in an existing vSphere Cluster with VCSA and VSAN in it
©2023 Virtual To The Core | WordPress Theme by SuperbThemes