
Cristie VA 5.3.1 What’s New
Here’s an update on what’s new for the Cristie Virtual Appliance. The 5.3.1 release includes lots of new functionality including Continuous Recovery Assurance for Rubrik VM snapshots.
Continuous Recovery Assurance provides automated cleanroom recovery verification for Cohesity DataProtect, Rubrik Security Cloud, IBM Storage Protect and Dell Technologies backups.
Automatically verify recovery of complete systems after each successful backup.
Verify system recovery in isolation from production systems and networks network.
Integrated KVM provides recovery verification for both Windows and Linux systems without additional hardware.
Continuous Recovery Assurance performs an automated full system recovery verification every time a new backup job is completed for a protected system. The recovery is performed within a clean room environment on the Cristie Virtual Appliance (VA) server. Continuous Recovery Assurance confirms backup integrity and ensures that the operating system can boot successfully.
With the prevalence of cyberattacks and malware reaching system backups, it is important to recover systems within a clean room environment for verification. This allows for backup integrity testing and cyber forensic analysis in isolation from production networks and systems to ensure that malware cannot spread further.
Continuous Recovery Assurance can automate the recovery verification of physical systems with the option of -pre and -post boot scripts to orchestrate additional disaster recovery processes. Virtual and cloud based systems are supported also.

Here’s an update on what’s new for the Cristie Virtual Appliance. The 5.3.1 release includes lots of new functionality including Continuous Recovery Assurance for Rubrik VM snapshots.

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