So i could be completely wrong but i believe Synology has hit the point where they need to develop a mechanism to determine how their customers are using their products, to determine where to prioritize their developers.

There was a work around to get the backups to work as long as you weren’t using all the advanced features of VMWare. Also, between Veeam 9.5 Update 3a and Update 4 if you had accidentally upgraded to ESXi 6.7 Update 1. Then entire time the information was readily available on their web site so you could easily plan your maintenance around it. Then when ESXi 6.7 Update 1 came out Veeam 9.5 update 4 was released in January. To compare this to Veeam, When ESXi 6.7 was released Veeam released Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3a roughly a month later to support it. I understand that different vendors can’t co term product releases but the lack of information and expectations is the more concerning issue. ESXi 6.7 Update 1 was released on October of 2018 and Active Backup for Business is still not updated to support it.īeing built for Business and you having to wait almost a year for support are 2 things that should never be in the same sentence. In either case it causes me to worry a little bit because ESXi 6.7 went GA in April of 2018 and it took 11 months for Synology to update their product to support it.

In this case Synology’s marketing campaign has been “We’re built for business” or ” replace your server with our fill in the blank product“. This leads me to my underlying issue/reservation with Synology or similar device companies. It looks like ESXi 6.7 Support was added at the beginning of this month, but i can say it’s missing support for ESXi 6.7 Update 1 Support. On the documentation site is states that is supports ESXi 6.7 but it looks like this issue was posted to their forums in January. During the process I reached the point where I decided “Screw it, restore from backups and start over.” Then I found this gem.Īctive Backup for Business Synology can backup ESXi 6.7 VMs but it can’t restore to it. The other night I was messing around with side Linux VM and I was shotgun blasting 2+ years of updates to it.

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