We are pleased to announce a new update for the Cristie Virtual Appliance. The 4.8.1 release includes lots of new functionality and bug fixes which bring with it a wealth of benefits.
Headline Enhancements
- Backup server protection – You can now import all clients from a chosen backup server to be added to a Simulation job.
- You can now perform CloneManager Offline replications to SMB/NFS storage.
- Rubrik Security Cloud support – You can now enter RSC details into the backup server discovery page to automatically discover all managed CDMs.
- Active-active clustering – You can now configure active-active clustering up to a maximum of 32 nodes, allowing you to load balance operations across several instances of the VA and providing additional redundancy.
- Recovery templates – You can now pick (and tweak) pre-defined recovery templates, allowing you to configure jobs en-masse without the need to manually enter all of the details for recovery/simulation/replication.
- You can now use BIOS UUIDs as a system identifier for iPXE web boot mappings.
- Context menus – You can now right click on jobs/systems to perform actions without having to use the actions menu.
- Orchestration display now shows current task and current task status (where applicable).
- You can now run individual tasks or stages inside an orchestration job.
- Reusable tasks have been retired in favour of recovery templates.
- You can now import an Orchestration recovery task into a Simulation job. Allowing you to test your recovery prior to a disaster scenario.
- You can now specify local boot as part of a boot mapping. Allowing you to reboot systems back to the recovered OS without removing the boot media.
- You can now bulk import clients from a backup server into a Simulation job.
- The Recovery wizard will now display contextual help based on your selections.
- Linux DR ISOs now boot to text based mode by default. Reducing the RAM requirements.
- You can now create boot mappings as part of the Recovery wizard.
- You can now re-run a standalone Recovery operation.
- You can now edit boot mappings in Boot Management.
- You can now setup Simulation and Replication jobs as “Run once” schedules.
- If configured, a Recovery will now trigger on boot of the ISO. (9.5.2 or later is required).
- You can now import a Simulation job into an Orchestration job.
- Credentials are now validated before every replication.
- You can now deploy DR proxies to a HMC environment.
- User audit logging can now be enabled from the Options page.
- Replication Sandbox is now available for CloneManager Offline replications to AWS.
- Export VA configuration has been enhanced to optionally export all recovery media, allowing you to import everything required to a fresh VA following a disaster.
- Significant performance enhancements.
- Various minor GUI fixes & enhancements.
Bug Fixes
- Disk selections were not being honoured properly for CloneManager Offline replications.
- Older appliances would sometimes fail to reboot after an upgrade with “failed to start switch root” errors.
- Download links under Tools -> Download Software were not always working.
- Importing AD groups would only import one user.
- Modifying an Orchestration recovery would break disk mapping for Linux recoveries.
- Web boot iPXE would not work for RBMR.
- Editing a physical recovery wouldn’t show the target system properly.
- Web boot – iPXE environment wouldn’t reboot if a mapping wasn’t available.
- Windows custom ISO static address could sometimes be assigned to the wrong adapter.
- Editing an Orchestration stage would sometimes fail.
- VA would continue to create Hyper-V targets if the system was not discoverable.
- Fetching multiple RBMR DR configs would cause the proxy to hang.
- The UpgradeAdministrator account was not always being removed following an automatic upgrade.
- VA OVA’s was being deployed with a 100GB disk instead of 200GB.
- Post recovery checks would sometimes fail when comparing Windows DR configs.
- Show discovered targets display wouldn’t show which system was selected.
- It was not possible to create a custom log bundle with Orchestration job logs.
- Import hotfix display would show features not available on the VA.
- Linux restores to physical systems would show an input for drivers. This has been removed.
- Windows CBMR recoveries would sometimes fail with exit code 127.
- Too many network interfaces would break the interface.
- CBMR backup credentials were not tied to Estate Management.
- Boot Management page styling was broken.
- Exporting VA configuration through browser downloads has been retired.
- Hyper-V recoveries would default to BIOS boot for EFI system recoveries.
- Reverting to snapshots would not always power off the VM once a snapshot had been reverted.
- Other minor bug fixes.
