We are pleased to announce Cristie Virtual Appliance 5.3.1 release which includes new functionality and bug fixes, bringing a wealth of benefits. In particular Cristie Virtual Appliance Release 5.3.1 brings Continuous Recovery Assurance to Rubrik VM snapshots, automatically verifying recoveries within a cleanroom environment for every new backup detected. This provides the confidence that your system recoveries will work when you need them most.
Cristie Virtual Appliance 5.3.1 Release – Main Enhancements
- The appliance now offers full integration with AIX and Solaris BMR version 9.3, enabling streamlined estate management, backup, and recovery
- Rubrik VM snapshots can now be restored using Recover, Recovery Assurance, or Orchestrate
- Recovery Assurance can now utilise external hypervisors for running recovery tests, allowing you to leverage existing infrastructure and resources
- Cohesity archived backups are now supported for recovery operations
- Group your managed systems in Estate Management for simpler organisation and oversight
- You will now receive an email notification (if enabled) and an event when the appliance SSL certificate is nearing expiry
- Estate Management now supports SSH keys for Windows authentication
- SMB traffic between the appliance and Windows source systems is no longer required for deployments
- KVM integration now supports TLS transport and SASL authentication
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where web boot ISOs could not be generated when custom SSL certificates were applied to the appliance
- Disaster recovery configuration retrieval from a Rubrik client with multiple filesets no longer incorrectly fails with No snapshots were found
- LPAR creation on IBM Power10 systems now works correctly
- Rebooting systems recovered to Nutanix Prism Central 7.5 no longer results in an unsupported action error
- HTTP proxy settings are now consistently applied to all Rubrik Security Cloud API requests
- Cohesity source registrations of the disaster recovery environment are now automatically unregistered once the restore process completes
- Various minor UI issues and validation improvements
