A quick summary of the latest update
Last month I attended Veritas Vision and got a glimpse of the new features available in NetBackup 8.1 (subsequently released on 26/09/2017). The 8.1 release includes enhancements to existing options including security, MSDP, and VMware, as well as new capabilities in protecting next generation workloads, and efficient backup to cloud. Let's take a look at each of the new features in more detail.
Secure communication – From NetBackup 8.1 onwards, hosts can only communicate with each other in secure mode. In flight communications will be authenticated using certificates and encrypted with TLS.
Cloud Catalyst – If you're looking at storing your backups in the cloud you need to implement this feature. Cloud Catalyst is a deduplication storage server that receives backup data and first caches it locally and then sends the optimized data stream to a supported cloud storage provider such as Amazon S3 or Microsoft Azure.
Accelerator for Isilon MSDP – Previously available for NetApp filers only, this feature enables faster backups of an Isilon Filer by only backing up changed data after completing the initial full backup.
VMware enhancements – Ever wanted to include or exclude specific vmdk's from a VMware backup? Now you can. Ever wanted to restore only a specific vmdk to the same or different server? Now you can.
New workload and database support – The parallel streaming framework is built on a scale-out architecture that allows multiple streams to be sent to a media server.
by Riaan Badenhorst Riaan is our Data Protection and High Availability Solution architect, Veritas Evangelist, Cloud Enthusiast, and all round Problem solver.
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