Nakivo with its top-rated Nakivo Backup & Replication 10.7.2 backup solution, is the first vendor that provides VMware vSphere 8 support.
Although the new release supports vSphere 8, it can protect workloads in compatibility mode only. It means if a workload is protected in Compatibility Mode, properties introduced in vSphere 8 are skipped during backup, replication, and recovery.
Because vSphere 8 is a quite new product, the general rule of thumb is that you should upgrade your VMware infrastructure if your backup solution fully supports the latest version to avoid backup, replication or restore issues. The suggestion is to wait a little bit before upgrading the production to the new version.
What's new in Nakivo 10.7.2
Nakivo 10.7.2 doesn't bring any new major feature and provides vSphere 8 support for Initial Availability - IA in Compatibility Mode only.
Additional info about version 10.7.2 can be found in the Release Notes.
vSphere 8.0 full support in beta 10.8
Full support for vSphere 8 will be provided with version 10.8. Beta 10.8 of the forthcoming new Nakivo Backup & Replication release is already available to download for testing purposes and will provide new interesting features:
- vSphere 8 - Full vSphere 8 support for GA version.
- S3-Compatible Object Storage Support - Store backups in local storage compatible with the S3 API.
- Direct Recovery to Tape - Full VMs and EC2 instances can be recovered directly to your infrastructure from backups stored on tape media without staging repository requirements.
- Job priority - You can set the priority level for critical backup jobs to be processed first.
- Persistent VSS Agent - The agent used during VSS process can now be permanently injected to the VM.
Nakivo Backup & Replication 10.8 beta is available to download for testing purposes.
