Veritas Technologies has announced the launch of Veritas NetBackup 8.0 on December 01, 2016 in California, USA. Here is the new features exist on Netbacku 8.0
- NetBackup servers must use a host name that is compliant with RFC 1123 and RFC 952
- NetBackup 8.0 support additions :
- The following products and services are supported starting with NetBackup 8.0:
- VMware Backup Server vSphere 6.0 and its updates – VDDK 6.0.2
- Client – Windows Server 2016 (Client, File Systems)
- Bare Metal Restore (BMR) support for client and boot server on SUSE Linux
- Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 SP1
- Enterprise Vault 12
- Hyper- V for Windows Server 2016
- NetBackup 8.0 introduces Host ID-based certificates that are based on UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers) assigned by NetBackup master server.
- New encryption algorithm for Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP)
- Update JRE using the nbcomponentupdate utility
- The nbcomponentupdateutility supports JRE update for following products:
- NetBackup Master, Media, and Client
- NetBackup Remote Administration Console
- OpsCenter Server, Agent, and View Builder
- Retention levels extended to 100
- MSDP stream handler enhancements for Isilon filers using NDMP
- Several shutdown commands will be deprecated in a future releasedaemons will be provided in an upcoming release. At that point, the followingcommands will no longer be available:
- bp.kill_all
- bpdown
- bpclusterkill
- bpmedialist -count option will be deprecated in a future release
- Removal of feature to upload logs to FTP server
- Incremental reporting feature with nbdeployutil
- Change to OpsCenter database default password
- OpsCenter interface requires HTTPS protocol
- Web services enabled in NetBackup 8.0
- Support for Microsoft Azure cloud
- The NetBackup CloudStore Service Container (nbcssc) service isnow highly available in a clustered environment
- Use of certificate-based authentication in the NetBackup CloudStore Service Container
- Cloud storage management
- Added support for cloud storage configuration in a clustered environment
- New directory added for cloud storage configuration files
- A new directory named cloudis added to the following location:
- On Windows: NB_INSTALL_PATH\NetBackp\db\
- On UNIX:/usr/openv/netbackup/db/
- Change in file path for the cloud storage configuration files
- SharePoint 2016 Local System account requirements
- For SharePoint 2016, the NetBackup Legacy Client Service and NetBackup Legacy
- Network Service must run as the “Local System account”.
- Support for SYMCquiesce for Linux VMs will be discontinued in a future release
- Enhanced file mapping for VM backups
- Support for VMware fault tolerant VMs
- Support for VMware SAN multi-pathing on Linux
- Additional support for individual VMware virtual machine disk restores
- VMware web client plug-in time zone limitation removed
- Backups of VMware VMs that have NVMe controllers not supported
- Faster backup of Hyper-V virtual machines on Windows Server 2016
Source : veritas.com
