
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.
Cristie system recovery for Avamar protects your critical servers by recovering them directly from your Avamar backups.
Powerful features remove complexity and manual intervention from your recovery workflow. Recovery simulations can be scheduled to ensure your disaster recovery plan will work when you need it most.
ABMR is re-sold globally by Dell Technologies and its channel partners as a recommended recovery solution and is available for both perpetual and subscription-based licensing.
ABMR provides DR automation and orchestration capabilities, plus the ability to recover systems within a sandbox environment to validate recovery processes and verify RTO objectives.
Adding ABMR to your Dell Avamar environment allows recovery of operating systems, applications, user configuration and data to any point in time available in your Avamar backup software. Cristie RBMR Recovery incorporates Advanced Anomaly Detection which applies Machine Learning algorithms to detect malicious file encryption as part of the system recovery workflow, this can provide an early warning of possible ransomware activity.
Recover directly from existing Dell Avamar backups without extra infrastructure or management. Systems can recovered at scale with simple bulk entry of server parameters to facilitate large server estate protection. Our automation features for physical machine recovery can eliminate time consuming manual intervention.
AMBR can recover systems from Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, VMware, Hyper-V and cloud platforms such as Azure, OCI and Amazon EC2. Refer to the ABMR Product Support Matrix for the latest compatibility information.
ABMR is a vital addition to any Dell Avamar installation providing all the necessary files to rebuild a system to its identical state preceding any disaster scenario.
When combined with the Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery Vault, AMBR provides the highest levels of protection and integrity for a company’s most valuable system configurations.
Without this addition, physical system recovery becomes a labour-intensive process as applications and configuration files need to be rebuilt manually.
Adding ABMR allows customers to leverage the resiliency of the Cyber Recovery Vault solution to protect and restore their vital systems, including all necessary configuration information. Systems can be restored directly from the vault to dissimilar hardware, or to alternative virtual or cloud recovery targets.
Install ABMR Agent
Install Avamar Agent
Create/Copy Binary
Create Protection Policy & Group
Download the recovery ISO from Cristie
ABMR Recovery Environment

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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