
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.
The Cristie Virtual Appliance provided a single management solution for all operating platforms.
System recovery was enabled directly from native IBM Storage Protect backups. Rubrik, Cohesity & Dell Technologies platforms are also supported.
System recovery information is incorporated without the need to update existing backup job configurations.
System recovery or replication between any platform type is supported in any direction for complete flexibility.Â
Individual machines can be quickly configured for recovery with ability to easily scale to meet bulk recovery demand as required.
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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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