Today we are pleased to be releasing  a new version of Linux 8.6 BMR Intel and PPC Suite (Intel and PPC – big/little-endian) to production. The suite consists of ABMR (Intel only, not PPC), CBMR, NBMR and TBMR.

These are the main changes compared with the previous BMR releases:

Common to all BMR products

• Added a new option to the DR environment Manual Recovery to allow Multi-path options to be set.
• iSCSI initiator has been added to the DR environment.
• GPT partitions can now be resized through the disk summary.
• Documentation updated for this release

ABMR

• Now supports Dell EMC Avamar client/server versions from 7.2 to 18.2.100-134/18.2.0.134 respectively.

CBMR

• Now supports IBM Spectrum Protect clients in the range version 7.1 to 8.1.7.0 inclusive. Server versions supported are 7.1 to 8.1.7.0.
• User Guide now includes instructions on performing incremental backup and restore.

NBMR

• Now supports Dell EMC NetWorker™ client/server version up to 18.2.0.1/18.2.0.1 respectively.

TBMR

• Now supports IBM Spectrum Protect clients in the range version 7.1 to 8.1.7.0 inclusive. Server versions supported are 7.1 to 8.1.7.0.

Note 1: The BMR Intel products are compatible with the Cristie VA release 2.7.
Note 2: Bug fixes are also included with these releases. Please consult the relevant Release Notes for further details.

Each BMR 8.6 product is now available for immediate download from the Cristie FTP site.