Cristie VA Release

Headline Enhancements

Our latest release includes volumes of new functionality which brings with it a wealth of benefits. Some of the key highlights include:

• VA Features can be enabled and disabled. This keeps the protect.ova download smaller, allowing you to only install the features you require
• Feature bundles. You can download and install features without an internet connection.
• BMRCFG status reporting. You can now see the date of your machine DR config. This is shown at the point of recovery/simulation and in the estate display (assuming you deploy the BMR product via the VA)
• Backup storage can now be named so it is easily identifiable.
• Manual restore of Protect 4 VM backups. This allows you to restore P4VM backups taken on another Cristie Virtual Appliance.
• You can now add a machine from a CBMR backup job to a recovery simulation. This will enable the simulation to always attempt to recover the latest available backup. Previously this would have required a manual change after every backup.
• Update from the graphical user interface. From 2.7 onwards customers can upgrade from the appliance interface as well as via the command line.
• vSphere 6.7 support. vSphere 6.7 is now supported as a target hypervisor.
• vSphere 6.7 support. Protect for VMs now supports vSphere 6.7.
• vSphere VM name limit increased from 15 characters to 80 characters.
• Discovery is quicker throughout all areas of the VA.
• Sudo support. Deployment/Licensing/Backup operations can now be performed without using root.
• You can now disable S3 replications (globally and on a per proxy basis).
• Estate management (deployment and licensing operations) now support Windows Server 2019.
• Restores/Simulations of Windows Server 2019 backups is now supported (where 2019 is supported by the 3rd party backup vendor).
• Replications of Windows Server 2019 is now supported.
• Added new ‘Midnight’ theme.
• Show password toggle. Every password field now has the ability to show the password in plain text.
• Email alerts for failed CBMR or P4VM backups/restores. You can now get basic email alerts if a backup fails. Enhanced email notifications will be part of a future release.
• Replication/Recovery/Simulation screens are now more responsive and status reporting has been improved.
• Includes the latest 8.5 release of ABMR, CBMR, NBMR & TBMR for Windows and Linux
• Includes the latest 8.5 release of CBMR for AIX & Solaris
• Includes the latest 3.6 release of CloneManager for Windows & Linux
• Replications to AWS are now supported.
• Simulations/Recoveries to AWS are now supported.
• Error messages improved when creating a recovery simulation.
• You can now specify a VM name for Replication & Migration jobs. Previously the existing hostname would be used for the VM name.
• Linux PPC is now supported for estate management.
• Linux PPC is now supported for Recovery/Simulation operations.
• Simulation health reporting is now more reliable.

Bug Fixes

• Removing a system from a backup job did not clear it’s backup storage. This sometimes meant it was not possible to delete backup storage.
• CBMR for Linux would sometimes fail to install on non English systems. This has now been fixed.
• Some customers attempting to replicate to vSphere were unable to specify a datacenter other than the default, this is now fixed.
• CBMR backups would fail with an unknown error if your machines license was invalid. This is now handled properly.
• Backing up Linux & Windows machines to the same CIFS share would sometimes cause Windows backups to fail. This is now fixed.
• It was not possible to discover a Spectrum Protect (TSM) server if none of the nodes contained a disrec.ini. This is fixed.
• Changing backup storage for Linux backups would not work until the user manually unmounted the backup shares. This is now done automatically.
• Windows CBMR recoveries would fail if you restored from a backup location with a user account that was not part of a domain.
• Disk information missing from DRAnswerfile for Linux recoveries to physical systems
• Error messages improved when creating a recovery simulation.
• Replication log files would sometimes be downloaded multiple times. This is now fixed.
• Selecting Run now on a Replication machine would sometimes start everything in the job. This is now fixed.
• Values not bound to statement error when configuring a physical replication. This is now fixed.