
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.
RBMR system recovery for Rubrik® protects your critical servers by recovering them directly from your Rubrik Security Cloud backups.
Simulated recoveries can also be scheduled so that an entire server infrastructure can be tested over a desired timeframe. The recovery machines can be held in an isolated network and released after each simulation, so storage is not permanently required. Detailed reporting highlights any problems encountered and provides a full audit track of successful results.
Rubrik Security Cloud
Install RBMR Agent
Install Rubrik Agent
Create/Copy Binary
Create Protection Policy & Group
Download the recovery ISO from Cristie
RBMR 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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