Recently I upgraded my non-critical hosts to vCenter/ESXi 5.1. I learned quickly Veeam 6.1 was not supported.

I’ve inherited Veeam as our virtualization backup solution. After all, its automated, has deduplication, compression, reporting and can make archives(Veeamzip). What more could I ask for?

After upgrading Veeam kept throwing errors – Backup console is not compatible with proxy ‘<servername>’. Backup server version: ‘6.1.0.181’. Job has failed. See logs for details.

From what I read on the Veeam forums, the fix will be released in Veeam 6.5. Which isn’t available yet.  But I found a workaround, not the best solution, but seems to work okay.

• Remove your vCenter server from Veeam
• update to the latest Veeam 6.1 patch
• add in each host, NOT the vCenter server
• Adjust backup jobs

Again, probably not the best solution as Veeam is no longer vMotion ‘aware’ but it appears to run/complete backups again.