Veeam FastSCP and ESX4i

One of my valuable tools that I use is Veeam’s FastSCP. A while back they introduced a new version that was compatible with ESX3i - which was a great blessing!

Today I tried to connect to my ESX4i server and I found that it would not.

Received an error:

I started to look on their support forum, but could not find any mention of ESX4i - so I reverted to Twitter.

I posted:

@veeam - does fastscp work with esxi4 I am getting an unknown api verison 4.0 error http://twitpic.com/5zq83

— Maish Saidel-Keesing (@maishsk) May 26, 2009

and lo and behold (10 minutes minus a few seconds later)

@maishsk Currently testing version 3.1 with the GA code of vSphere 4.0, should just be a few more days. Veeam Backup first, then FastSCP

— Veeam® Software (@Veeam) May 26, 2009

Twitter of course is an amazing tool, and I don’t really how people work without it. Don’t you love it?

So just to let you all know FastSCP will not work in its current version with ESX4i - but will very soon.

Update: I was using an older version 3.0.0.220 to be exact. I downloaded a newer version 3.0.1 today and all works fine. Thanks again to Veeam for wonderful support and follow up. Well done!