
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.
Data backup and system recovery are not the same – a robust system recovery solution is vital to minimise downtime.
Our Recovery (BMR) software integrates with industry leading backup providers such as IBM, Dell, Cohesity & Rubrik to recover machines directly from their backups. Machines can be restored to dissimilar hardware and also to virtual and cloud environments.
Cristie BMR Recovery automates the recovery of multiple systems ensuring that applications can be restored seamlessly following any outage. Recoveries can be automatically verified with Continuous Recovery Assurance (CRA) after each new backup to ensure your disaster recovery plan will work when you need it most. CRA recovery tests are performed in a Clean Room environment on the Cristie Appliance.Â
Initiate the recovery of multiple systems or system group at the click of a button.
Schedule recovery simulations without affecting ongoing protection to measure RTO/RPO metrics and verify recovery job integrity.
Cristie BMR Recovery provides a single recovery solution for multiple operating systems with the ability to easily orchestrate tiered application recoveries.
Cristie BMR Recovery easily facilitates system recovery between dissimilar platforms for complete flexibility. Innovative features such as malicious file encryption detection and simulated system recoveries deliver the most advanced and feature rich system recovery workflow.
Cristie BMR Recovery applies advanced Machine Learning algorithms to detect malicious file encryption as part of the system recovery workflow.
Cristie BMR Recovery allows an application group of servers or an entire data center to be automatically recovered quickly in the event of a disaster.
Cristie BMR Recovery adds full system recovery capability to point-in-time backups from your native Rubrik, Cohesity, IBM or Dell data protection applications.
Cristie BMR Recovery automates the recovery of physical systems and integrates with leading remote access and boot management solutions.
Recoveries can be carried out in as little as ten minutes to dissimilar physical hardware or to virtual & cloud environments.
Recovery simulations can be scheduled to monitor recovery functionality and performance. Simulations can take place within an isolated network to not impact the production environment.
Recovery jobs can be scripted for testing and failover including manual tasks such as loading a tape cartridge. Recovery reports can be generated for compliance purposes.
Recovery reports are analyzed by our ML engine providing automatic correction of failure scenarios where possible or corrective guidance.
Enhanced System Recovery for users of Cohesity DataProtect, Dell Avamar, Dell Networker, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, IBM Spectrum Protect, Rubrik, VMware and AIX.

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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