Symantec NetBackup 7.5 New Features
Symantec released NetBackup 7.5 yesterday which includes some new features and changes for physical and virtual environments. This release contains the following new features:
- Replication Director This feature offers a unified, policy-based man-agement of backups, snapshots and replication, NetApp Plug-in for Symantec NetBackup “Replication Director” and an hotfix for Net-Backup 7.5. Both will be available beginning mid-March 2012. The hotfix for NetBackup will be available on the Symantec support web site and the plug-in will be available on the NetApp NOW Site
- Deduplication This release offers improved deduplication inte-gration, scalability, performance, and stability
- Virtualization NetBackup for VMware and NetBackup for Hyper-V have both been improved. If you are still run-ning agents "in the guest", it is time to leverage the benefits in these built-for-virtualization solu-tions
- Accelerator This feature offers intelligent, streamlined backup to disk. It addresses the increase in the amount of data to backup and the need to reduce backup windows
- Search This feature provides an Information Manage-ment solution that couples backup, recovery, ar-chive, and discovery
- Cloud This release contains a new Cloud-based storage that features Encryption
- Telemetry This feature provides data collection and uploads capabilities for NetBackup and OpsCenter installations
- New platform support has been added to provide automated Bare Metal Restore of more platforms and configurations expand embedded deduplica-tion and expand support to address market needs for database agents:
- Mac OSX 10.7 Client
- BMR Client and boot server support for the following platforms:
- Red Hat 6
- AIX 7.1
- Solaris 10 ZFS (Sparc/x64)
- Linux native multi-path
- Auto Image Replication for BMR images
- Deduplication for AIX MSDP and Client
- Added support for the following agents:
- Enterprise Vault 10
- New - Sybase Agent (Solaris 10 x64)
- New - Informix Agent (Solaris 10 x64)
- SharePoint 2010 SP1
- Exchange 2010 SP2