Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 8.1.1
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 8.1.1 new features, changes, and enhancements
- New RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 8.1.1
- Integrated snapshot framework between NetBackup and CloudPoint
- Bare Metal Restore with secure communications support
- NetBackup 8.1.1 support additions and changes
- End-of-life for multiple NetBackup products, features, and platforms
- Support has ended for vSphere 5.1
- NetBackup support utility (nbsu) has been updated
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- IPv6 support information for NetBackup 8.1.1
- Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.1
- NetBackup supports backups to Amazon Glacier storage class
- NetBackup supports backups using cloud tiering
- Support for bpstart_notify and bpend_notify scripts using Oracle Intelligent Policy (OIP)
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore functionality is supported for restoring NetBackup 8.1.1 clients
- MSDP updates in NetBackup 8.1.1
- NetBackup install now includes Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor and Hadoop plug-ins
- Dependency to select the Enterprise Vault version to configure policy directives is removed
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 8.1.1 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- Do not install from the menu that appears when the installation DVD is inserted
- About support for HP-UX Itanium vPars SRP containers
- Web service connection between NetBackup 8.1.1 IPv6-only master server and 8.1 dual stack host is not established during installation
- A Java error can occur on AIX 7.1
- Installation fails for clients with pure IPV6 enabled on HP-UX 11.31 IA64
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- "Operation timed out" message appears when policies are accessed from the Remote Administration Console
- Using X forwarding to launch the NetBackup Administration Console can fail on certain Linux platforms
- Intermittent issues with X forwarding of NetBackup Administration Console
- Reduced functionality during the initialization of the NetBackup Administration Console
- NetBackup Administration Console may encounter a core dump issue when the Simplified Chinese UTF-8 locale is used on a Solaris SPARC 64-bit system with Solaris 10 Update 2 or later
- NetBackup Accelerator operational notes
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- SRT creation may fail using NetBackup 8.1 or 8.1.1 as the BMR boot server on AIX and HP-UX platforms with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier clients
- Allow Auto Reissue Certificate option may remain enabled for a client after a BMR operation is cleaned up by the user
- Discovery task may remain in Finalizing state after client PTD task completes successfully
- BMR restore task may remain in Finalizing state after the client is restored successfully
- NetBackup database and application agent operational notes
- NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup Snapshot Client operational notes
- NetBackup virtualization operational notes
- NetBackup for VMware operational notes
- The NetBackup web UI cannot restore a VM from a replicated backup image
- The NetBackup web UI does not validate VMware server entries
- NetBackup cannot use the nbd or nbdssl transport mode to connect directly to VMware IPv6 ESXi servers
- The NetBackup plug-in for vSphere Web Client cannot start a VM recovery by right-clicking on a successful backup event
- Using the NetBackup appliance to install the NetBackup plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client
- VMware block-level incremental backups expire when the previous full backup expires
- A VM restore to a vCenter fails when NetBackup has credentials for a restore ESX server
- NetBackup for VMware operational notes
- Appendix A. About SORT for NetBackup Users
- Appendix B. NetBackup installation requirements
- Appendix C. NetBackup compatibility requirements
- Appendix D. Other NetBackup documentation and related documents
NetBackup 8.1.1 support additions and changes
Note:
These lists are subject to change. See the NetBackup Master Compatibility Lists for the most recent product and services support additions and changes.
The following products and services are supported starting with NetBackup 8.1.1:
The following databases:
MariaDB versions 5 and 10
PostgreSQL versions 9 and 10
SQLite version 3
IBM AIX 7.2 TL1 for NetBackup master servers and BMR servers
Microsoft SQL Server 2017
Microsoft SQL 2012 SP4
Microsoft Exchange 2016 CU7 and CU8
Microsoft SharePoint 2010/2013/2016 October 17 to January 18 CU
Nutranix 5.1 Virtual Infrastructure
Backup and restore of Nutranix 5.1 Virtual Infrastructure
Oracle Linux 7.4
Media server and client support on Oracle Linux 7.4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.9 and 7.4 (x86-64 for master servers and media servers)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.9 and 7.4 ( z/Arch media servers)
Media server and BMR client support on RHEL 6.9 and Oracle Enterprise (OEL) 6.9
SAP ASE 16 SP3 for Solaris
SAP HANA 2.0 SP2 for RHEL and SUSE
SAP Oracle BR Tools 7.4
Semi-Annual Channel
Client and Hyper-V on Semi-Annual Channel
VMware VDDK 6.5.2
VMware vCloud Director 9.0
Windows Server 2016 for BMR client and BMR boot server
More information about this support addition is available in the following article:
With this release of NetBackup, support is added for the following cloud vendors:
ACP Cloud Storage CS3
Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS)
China Telecom Cloud OOS S3
EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (S3)
FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS - CD10000 Hyperscale Storage Systems
Huawei OBS - Huawei OBS Object Storage Service
IBM Cloud Object Storage S3 for Local Network
IBM Cloud Object Storage for Wide Area Network (WAN)
NetApp StorageGRID Webscale - WAN
Enterprise grade object storage for the hybrid cloud. Settings optimized for WAN
Open Telekom Cloud OBS
Cloud object storage service
Oracle S3 Storage Cloud Service
Quantum Lattus - Object Storage
Red Hat Ceph Storage - Software-defined storage, On-premises and in the Cloud
Scality RING - LAN
Scality S3 On-premises object and Cloud storage, optimized for LAN
Scality RING - WAN
Scality S3 Multi-cloud storage, optimized for multi-site
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Software-defined storage solution
Veritas Access
Scale-out software-defined storage
The following products and services are no longer supported starting with NetBackup 8.1.1:
Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) on Windows Server 2008
More information about supported products and services is available:
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