The Offline Restore is a fast 1-Touch recovery of the Windows client. This is accomplished by starting the restore from WinPE instead of restoring the entire operating system.
1-Touch Recovery is now supported for HP-UX. For an overview, see 1-Touch for HP-UX.
Configuration information required during a 1-Touch client restore can now be easily provided using a pre-populated file. This eliminates the need to manually provide the information during the restore operation. In addition, these files can be easily created ahead of time from the CommCell Console and saved in a network location or in an easily accessible devise (such as thumb drive) to facilitate the client recovery.
The OnePass Agent allows users to achieve back up, archive and SRM reporting functions in OnePass.
This agent enables you to move the data once to secondary storage and use the data to function as both backup and archive copy. During stubbing, the data is not moved again. Stubs point to the data that was already moved as part of the backup.
Learn more:
For more information, see Notification Types.
Upgrade Software feature now includes a new option to automatically shutdown Internet browser applications on client computers during upgrade operations, which ensures a successful upgrade.
For more information, see Automatic Upgrade.
Automatic Updates support the CommNet Server. During installation of the CommNet Server software, you must specify the CommCell with which the CommNet Server will be associated. This enables the CommNet Server to act as a client computer in the CommCell, which allows for the CommNet Server computer to support automatic updates and automatic upgrades. These features allow for the quick and easy installation of update and upgrade packages in your CommCell.
For more information, see Automatic Updates.
When both primary copy and secondary copy are deduplicated, auxiliary copies can be created in a Read Optimized mode. In this mode, when a data block in secondary copy is identical to the data block in primary copy, the copy operation reads only the metadata to create the auxiliary copy. This results in faster auxiliary copy operations. See Read Optimized Copies for more information.
When auxiliary copy, data verification, and content indexing operations are initiated, they will all utilize the same single auxiliary copy manager process, thus reducing the load resources on the CommServe computer.
Auxiliary Copy operations can be configured to:
For more information, see Auxiliary Copy Considerations: Network Load.
Several enhancements have been made to Books online in this release. This includes:
The Search Console now provides end users the ability to restore data without assistance from Backup/System Administrators. This feature includes the facility to browse and restore data between time frames, as well as the option to search for emails and file contents. End users can connect to the Search Console using a standard web browser. The following Agents support this feature in this release:
The following Agents support this feature. Learn more:
Browsing can now be executed at the subclient level, which is extremely useful for troubleshooting and restoring purposes. You can browse directly from the subclient or when viewing backup job history, where all the associated subclients will be available for browsing. For more information, see Browse Subclients.
Cloud Storage enables you to configure and use online storage devices — cloud storage devices — as storage targets. Cloud Storage reduces the need to maintain hardware resources, such as tape or disk storage devices, at onsite locations. It also provides the ability to easily increase your storage capacity as and when it is required. See Cloud Storage for more details.
The qlist dataagent qcommand now supports the -all option to get the static list of all available dataagents.
Save as Script is now supported for all jobs. In addition the scripts are now saved as a .xml file which can be easily modified.
Oracle third party command line operations can now be executed from the Oracle Enterprise Manager application.
CommCell Migration is now enhanced and available from the CommCell Console with easy-to-use graphical wizards. Additionally, the following features are now available:
CommCell Explorer is now named CommCell Views in this release. This feature is no longer a separate installable package, but rather available with the CommServe software. See CommCell Views for a comprehensive overview.
Though still maintaining its own user interface, the product integration enables CommNet to act as a client computer within the CommCell, thereby inheriting the following CommServe features:
The CommNet Server Database has been partitioned to enhance performance of CommNet operations.
Many new CommServe features are also supported by the CommNet software; they include:
When a user account is deleted, ownership of a report schedule or alert can be transferred to another CommNet user account. Since only the user who created the report schedule or alert can modify it, the transfer of ownership enables the new owner to quickly make necessary modifications. For more information, see:
CommNet Explorer is now named CommNet Views in this release. This feature is no longer a separate installable package, but rather available with the CommNet Server software.
In addition, the CNEClientInfoView is a new view that displays client information such as the total number of jobs completed and the total number of jobs that have been pruned. For more information, see CommNet Views: CNEClientInfoView.
Health Check Report has been renamed as Update Status Report. This report can be generated to only show specific update statuses for the CommCells (including the specific clients) in your CommNet environment. This can assist in quickly identifying those clients that require updates. It is necessary to maintain update consistency in your environment to prevent potential software conflicts.
Data Protection Q-Factor Report has been renamed as Data Protection SLA Report. This report can be generated to show the SLA (Service Level Agreement) coverage average for all of the clients, applications, and subclients for selected CommCells, as compared against the admissible defined SLA. The performance ratings included in this report allow you to quickly determine if your CommCells, clients, applications, and subclients have adequate data protection coverage.
Media Management Media Prediction Report has been renamed as Media Management Capacity Planning Report. This report can be generated to show the predicted rate of consumption for the libraries within a specific CommCell. This is especially useful for capacity planning for the media in your environment.
This report can be generated to show trends of how jobs (related to SRM) are completing within a specified range of time (days) for selected CommCell(s). This is helpful to see if the success rate is increasing or decreasing. Furthermore, when data within the report is double-clicked, the SRM Detail Report is launched, which displays more details specific to the job, including reasons for job failure, if any.
This report can be generated to show SRM job activity for the selected CommCells and/or Cell-Client Groups. The report will displays those jobs that were completed, and/or failed or killed, which can assist in determining any issues with CommCells.
This report can be generated to show the tape slot and media utilization information for the selected CommCell. It should be generated periodically to fully understand how the media and tape slots are utilized in each CommCell, and to learn their current status. Knowing this information is useful in determining or troubleshooting any potential issues with the media in your CommCell.
This report calculates the charges associated with the primary and secondary storage entities in the CommNet domain. The category costing generates the report based on the defined pricing for the primary or secondary storage entities. The costs for these storage entities can now be defined in:
This report displays a summary of all administration operations that were completed, failed and/or killed for the selected clients, client computer groups, and/or CommCells during the selected time range. It should be generated periodically to expose possible problem areas with the administration job activity within your CommCell.
This report can be generated to display the Subclient Status Table in text format, which is extremely useful when color recognition is not possible, e.g., when printing to a black-and-white printer. For more information, see Data Protection Reports.
This reports now generates predictive trending of data growth values, which is extremely useful for capacity planning. Predicted data growth values are interpolated from the actual data growth values over a period of days called the repetition pattern. For example, if you specify seven days, the data growth predictor will use the growth pattern from the last seven days to predict the future data growth.
This report can now be generated to quickly measure the overall performance of the data protection operations that have occurred with a specified client. This performance rating can let you know if data protection operations for the client are within acceptable levels or not. Based on this rating, you can then determine if you need to take any corrective action such as modifying the retention policies, schedule patterns, or by fixing problems that may exist in the network or hardware.
Application size indicates the amount of data protected during backup operations where Media Size is the amount of data written to the media; this includes backup, encrypted, compressed, and deduplicated data if applicable. Reporting in each method can be extremely useful for quickly determining amounts of backup data and media usage within your CommCell.
Offline Content Indexing now supports Global Filters in order to exclude specific file types from all offline content indexing operations within a CommCell. You can also include or exclude the gloabl filters for a specific offline content indexing operation from the storage policy level in the CommCell Console.
The Search Console provides a new look and feel with the following new features:
The following advanced search options are available from the CommCell Console:
For comprehensive information on performing search using CommCell Console, see Data Discovery and Search.
Remotely administer searches and logins within the Web Search Server using classes and packages provided in the Web Server Developer's Guide. Learn more...
Lotus Notes users can now login as end-users to the Search Console using Domino Directory Services. For more information on using Domino Directory Services, see Overview - Content Indexing and Search.
The User Administration page now provides a new improved look and feel with following capabilities:
When auxiliary copy, data verification, and content indexing operations are initiated, they will all utilize the same single auxiliary copy manager process, thus reducing the load resources on the CommServe computer.
ContinuousDataReplicator on Windows now supports iSCSI LUNs as destination computer for NetApp filers. This provides the capability to use iSCSI LUNs as destination and protect data on it using Recovery Points or Fan-In Recovery Points. For more information, on using iSCSI LUNs, see iSCSI LUN.
Optimized Sync, which is used with ContinuousDataReplicator, compares data between the source and destination computers to determine if identical data exists on both computers. Such data is then excluded from transfers from the source to the destination, which in turn limits the need to perform full sync operations to cases where data is partially presented on the destination or was manually copied to the destination by a third party.
For a complete overview, see Optimized Sync.
The following Unix File Systems are newly supported in this release:
The CommServe computer's defined time zone is the default setting for a storage policy. Subsequently, all associated storage policy copies will inherit the CommServe's time zone as their default setting. Data is aged according to the associated storage policy's defined time zone. If necessary, this time zone can be changed to suit your environment. The following time zones can be designated for a storage policy:
For more information, see Data Aging and Storage Policy Time Zones.
The scan enhancement functionality of the Data Classification enabler has been integrated with the Windows and Unix File System iDataAgents. You can now simply enable enhanced scanning from the appropriate iDataAgent's backup set. The Data Classification Enabler itself has been discontinued. Learn more...
In specifying the data path during data protection operations, you can now specify the drive to which the data protection operations are performed. See Change the Data Path for a Backup/Backup Schedule for more information.
Snap Backup is now supported by the DB2 iDataAgent on Unix. For more information, see Snap Backup.
Backups for this agent can use additional snapshots besides QSnap.
Backups for this agent can use additional snapshots besides QSnap.
For the Lotus Notes Database iDataAgent, any version of a database can be restored. During backups, each database is appended with a version number which, during restores, can be provided to restore that particular database version.
Errors encountered in synthetic full backups can now be ignored. This is useful when full backups are not possible and when continuously running synthetic full backups, even if the backup media is partially corrupted. For more information, see Ignore Errors in Synthetic Full Backups.
If manually discovered databases are removed/missing from the MySQL server, the backup operation for the specific subclient completes with errors. Similarly, during backup of default subclient, if the auto discovered databases are removed/missing from the MySQL server, the backup operation completes successfully. For more information on configuring subclients, see Subclients - MySQL.
For archive log backups, you now have the facility to disable the log switch of current log files.
Oracle instances can now be automatically or manually discovered for backups. Learn more....
Multiple copies of data or log backups are now supported from the CommCell Console.
For archive log backups, you now have the facility to disable the log switch of current log files.
For more information, see Subclients - Oracle RAC
Multiple copies of data or log backups are now supported from the CommCell Console.
For archive log backups, you now have the facility to disable the log switch of current log files.
For more information, see Subclients - SAP for Oracle.
When you backup archive logs, you now also have the facility to create a second copy of the archive logs and delete the original archive logs. For detailed information, see Creating Subclient for Log Backups.
Errors encountered in synthetic full backups can now be ignored. This is useful when full backups are not possible and when continuously running synthetic full backups, even if the backup media is partially corrupted. For more information, see Ignore Errors in Synthetic Full Backups.
In specifying the data path during data recovery operations, you can now specify the drive from which the data recovery operations are performed. See Browse and Restore/Recover/Retrieve Data From a Specific Data Path for more information.
Restore SnapProtect data for Oracle and DB2 using individual streams per mount point, which provides more efficient performance.
A web URL is embedded in each archived message which, when clicked, automatically recalls the message into the user's Recovered Items folder. Learn more...
All archived messages in a mailbox or mailbox folder can now be recalled simultaneously. By default, stubs are overwritten and can also be used to perform out-of-place restores. Learn more...
Oracle RMAN scripts for backup and restore operations can now be viewed and edited from the CommCell Console. Learn more...
When performing table level restore, you now have the facility to select the dependent and referenced tables of the selected tables for the restore operation. You can also choose to include triggers, constraints, indexes, grants, stored procedures, or other external parameters (such as COMPRESSION or PARALLEL) on the selected tables for the restore operation. Learn more...
You can resubmit Oracle restore jobs from the Job History window without the need to reconfigure the job with the same options. If required, you can also modify the existing configuration and resubmit the job. Learn more...
Data Recovery jobs for the SAP for Oracle iDataAgent can now be run from the CommCell Console besides from the SAP command line. See Restore – SAP for Oracle for more information.
SQL databases can now be restored if they were backed up with the Change Data Capture property enabled. This is a useful SQL Server 2008 feature in that all change activity (insert, update, and delete) is captured and applied to SQL tables. The details of the changes are available in an easily consumed relational format. See Restoring the Captured Changes for more information.
VMware restores are now enhanced with the following:
ContinuousDataReplicator (CDR) on Unix no longer requires snapshots to be created on the source computer.
When auxiliary copy, data verification, and content indexing operations are initiated, they will all utilize the same single auxiliary copy manager process, thus reducing the load resources on the CommServe computer.
You can now perform deduplication on client side, at the source of the data. Eliminating redundant data at the source, rather than at the MediaAgent, reduces the data send over network and optimizes network usage. Source deduplication is an ideal option for remote office backup operations. See How Source Side Deduplication Works for more information.
Global deduplication allows you to deduplicate data across storage policy copies. If you have multiple storage policy copies from one or more storage policies, you can use global deduplication to deduplicate the common data among the copies. Global deduplication improves the effectiveness of deduplication. See Global Deduplication for more details.
When both primary copy and secondary copy are deduplicated, auxiliary copies can be created in a Read Optimized mode. In this mode, when a data block in secondary copy is identical to the data block in primary copy, the copy operation reads only the metadata to create the auxiliary copy. This results in faster auxiliary copy operations. See Read Optimized Copies for more information.
When a storage policy copy is deduplicated, synthetic full backups can be created in an accelerated mode by identifying and transferring data signatures (instead of actual data) to the target. This results in faster synthetic full backup operations. See Accelerated Synthetic Full Backups (DASH Full) for more information.
Store Availability Options provides you option to recover or reconstruct the deduplication store in the event of a failure. See Deduplication Store Failover for more information.
Take advantage of Client Side Deduplication, DASH Copy, and other Deduplication capabilities using a simple upgrade tool. Learn more...
1-Touch Server, Content Indexing Engine, and IA64 Windows components are now packaged on software installation disc 2. See Software Installation Discs for information on the package available on each disc.
The Custom Package feature is now extended to almost all products in the Calypso suite. Using Custom Packages, you no longer have to push the entire software DVD through a network, which is especially useful for reducing WAN/LAN payload while installing remote clients.
It is also possible to create Custom Packages using a customized .xml file.
When used in conjunction with the Install Software from the CommCell Console and Automatic Updates features, WAN bandwidth can be drastically reduced during remote site installations. Learn more...
Agents and package distributions can now be installed — both scheduled and on-demand — from the CommCell Console. With the CommCell Console-based install capability, software can now be quickly and efficiently rolled out in large data centers and distributed WAN environments.
When used in conjunction with the Custom Packages and Automatic Updates features, WAN bandwidth can be drastically reduced during remote site installations. Learn more...
The CommNet software installation is a component of the CommServe software installation removing the need for the separate installation. When installing the CommServe software, you have the option to install the CommNet software components, which includes the CommNet Server, CommNet Browser, and CommNet Explorer. Additionally, during the installation of the CommServe software, the CommNet Agent is automatically installed. The CommNet Agent no longer requires an independent install on the CommServe computer. For more information, see:
Software packages can be uninstalled from client computers and MediaAgents in your CommCell using the CommCell Console interface. The Uninstall Software utility allows you to quickly see a list of the software packages installed on the selected computer, from which you can then select the components to uninstall. With this, you can easily manage removing software components from client computers and MediaAgents in your CommCell without having to directly access each computer. Fore more information, see Uninstall Components using the CommCell Console.
Components that were uninstalled but not deleted from the CommServe database can now be reinstalled with the same options previously configured.
New clients can be quickly added to a CommServe using the New Client GUI option available in the CommCell Console that provides the necessary information to pre-declare the client in the CommCell database. This is useful in cases where an operations center plans to add new clients to the CommCell that are not yet ready to connect. For a comprehensive overview, see Pre-Declaring Clients.
Veritas cluster installations for Unix platforms has been simplified with the following integrated features:
The Search Console now provides end users the ability to restore data without assistance from Backup/System Administrators. This feature includes the facility to browse and restore data between time frames, as well as the option to search for emails and file contents. End users can connect to the Search Console using a standard web browser. The following Agents support this feature in this release:
The following Agents support this feature. Learn more:
Pruned and deleted data can now be easily recovered from the CommCell Console in disaster recovery scenarios instead of using Media Explorer. Learn more...
Additional agents (e.g., Lotus Notes Document iDataAgent, Domino Mailbox Archiver) now support the erasing of data. Erasing data allows you to permanently erase data from storage and make it inaccessible for data recovery. See Erase Backup/Archived Data for more information.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is now fully supported. This includes support for Snap Backup and Snap Mining operations as well as full DAG configurations.
You can now create deduplication-enabled EZ backups. EZ Operations Wizard allows you to configure deduplication-enabled backup targets on disk libraries and use the targets to create deduplication-enabled EZ Backups. See EZ Operations for details on using EZ Operations Wizard.
CommCell Communication across firewalls is enhanced as follows:
See Firewalls for more information.
The CommCell Lockdown feature provides security to CommCell communication across firewalls by enforcing HTTPS connections authenticated with CommCell-specific certificate only. See Lock Down the CommCell for more information.
On Windows computers, you can bind all Calypso services to open ports in the firewall. See Bind all Services to Open Ports Only for more information.
Offline Content Indexing now supports Global Filters in order to exclude specific file types from all offline content indexing operations within a CommCell. You can also include or exclude the gloabl filters for a specific offline content indexing operation from the storage policy level in the CommCell Console.
Global Repository Cell (GRC) is a Remote Office Backup solution that automatically copies the data from a remote/branch office to a central CommServe. This feature provides you the ability to consolidate data in a centralized location for disaster recovery purposes and also serves as an alternate source for data recovery. Learn more...
Index Cache Server is an index cache sharing mechanism that saves an additional copy of the index cache for sharing purposes in one of the MediaAgents, which also acts as an Index Cache Server. When an Index Cache is not available in a local MediaAgent, it will be downloaded from the Index Cache Server instead of restoring it from the media. Index Cache Server provides the following advantages:
Jobs can be resubmitted from the Job History list using the job's original settings and attributes. Failed jobs can also be resubmitted with specific modifications to the original settings to ensure that the job gets proper coverage. This ability simplifies job management for operators and removes the potential for Agent configurations to be accidentally modified. Learn more...
You can configure jobs for granular restartability using the transaction log feature. When enabled, the transactions of the job are maintained in a log, and when the job has to be restarted due to index cache issues, the log is replayed to start the job from the point of failure. See Use transaction logging for more information.
For the SAP for MAXDB iDataAgent, a single job ID for both data and configuration backups and log and configuration backups is now generated and displayed in the Job Controller.
For SAP for Oracle command line backups, a single job ID for data backups and log backups is now generated and displayed in the Job Controller.
Jobs can now be managed from any mobile device, such as an iPad, iPod, BlackBerry, etc., using a simple interface. You can view detailed information and control individual jobs using this feature. Learn more...
The following new languages are supported in this release:
For more information, see Languages - Support.
This feature provides a quick and easy method of disabling licenses on clients that have been retired/virtualized/etc. This will also allow the previous configuration to be reinstated without manually setting up the client again.
This is essentially the same as the Deconfigure feature available from the CommCell Console in previous releases. The Deconfigure option is now renamed as Release License for Client. In addition, you now have a Reconfigure option for the deconfigured client in the CommCell Console. Learn more...
This feature allows you to obtain licenses based on the amount of data being backed up. It focuses on actual usage rather than being tied to number of server, agents, etc. See License Usage by Capacity for more information.
The Active Directory iDataAgent is now supported on Unix MediaAgents.
MediaAgent Management capability enables you to perform the following:
The Media Explorer now automatically installs in the same instance as the MediaAgent.
You can now reconcile the differences between the backup statistics on the CommServe database and the actual backup data on the disk volumes. Jobs that do not have corresponding data and backup contents that do not have corresponding jobs can be identified and mitigated. See Disk Volume Reconciliation for more details.
To provide easy identification and access, the Media Management configuration parameters for the following features are now available in their own separate tabs in the Media Management window of Control Panel:
Media Refresh is a tape reclamation service designed for extended retention media that may have been mixed with no extended retention jobs. This feature automates the Auxiliary Copying of data from one set of media to a new set of media — such as between LTO2 to LT04 media — and provides a seamless way to refresh data onto new tapes. Learn more...
The following new Agents are supported in this release:
Object Link provides an easy-to-use content management system in your CommCell. With the introduction of this Agent, large numbers of end-users can submit and store files and documents within the CommCell framework. In the current Beta release, the SAP Archive Link provides the ability to store and retrieve SAP content, such as scanned invoices, print links, lists, etc. In addition, the Object Link APIs are also provided. This can be used as an interface between the Object Link and any third-party applications like SAP to store and retrieve content.
The Documentum iDataAgent provides a data protection solution to protect and manage components (e.g., databases, storage areas, and full-text indexes) for EMC Documentum software. This iDataAgent will be able to protect Documentum data components installed on a single or multiple computers. Oracle or DB2 database on UNIX is supported. File level restores of documents, both in-place and out-of-place, are supported.
External Data Connector for NetBackup provides the facility to integrate NetBackup client information into a CommCell. You can use the client information to generate reports on previous NetBackup data protection and recovery operations.
Additionally, you can permanently migrate NetBackup clients into the CommCell to comprehensively manage new data protection and recovery operations
External Data Connector for Tivoli Storage Manager provides the facility to integrate client information into a CommCell. You can use the client information to generate reports on previous data protection and recovery operations.
Additionally, you can permanently migrate clients into the CommCell to comprehensively manage new data protection and recovery operations.
Laptop Backup is a vehicle for protecting data on laptops and desktops used in remote offices and outside of a domain network. This includes the ability to Backups can be performed seamlessly using automatic schedules based on network connectivity or CPU utilization parameters. Additionally, end-users can easily restore their data without assistance from Backup/System Administrators.
Laptop users now have the self-service facility to backup, restore, and download data on laptops using a web console. Learn more...
The PostGreSQL iDataAgent is designed to backup and restore PostGreSQL databases. This iDataAgent is particularly useful to recover an entire PostGreSQL database in the event of a complete system failure.
Improve performance by throttling network bandwidth based on days of the week, time of day, or KB/hour. Learn more...
Object Link provides an easy-to-use content management system in your CommCell. With the introduction of this Agent, large numbers of end-users can submit and store files and documents within the CommCell framework. In the current Beta release, the SAP Archive Link provides the ability to store and retrieve SAP content, such as scanned invoices, print links, lists, etc. In addition, the Object Link APIs are also provided. This can be used as an interface between the Object Link and any third-party applications like SAP to store and retrieve content.
You can configure the size of application data fetched for data transfer during backup operations. Tuning the application read size in alignment with the source application's buffer allocation increases the rate of data transfer during backup. See Configure the Application Read Size for more information.
Registry keys can be managed (added, edited, deleted) on a CommServe, MediaAgent or client level using the CommCell Console for Windows or Unix client computers. This provides the benefit of using the CommCell Console to manage the registry keys for new clients, as opposed to manually editing them in files or with Regedit. For more information, see Registry Keys and Parameters.
For more information, see Reports -Overview.
This report displays the Media Refresh operations that enables consolidation of the data on media and/or to replace existing old media. Consolidating the data on these tapes increases the tape utilization. For more information, see Media Refresh Job Summary Report.
The Data Aging Job Summary Report will display information pertaining to the data aging jobs' associated time zone as well as whether the job is configured for extended retention with Grace Days enabled. This makes it easier to quickly obtain the accurate status of the data aging jobs. For more information, see Data Aging Job Summary Report.
The CommCell Growth Report table now includes scale and performance information for CommCells such as Total Data Protection and Collection Jobs, Total Data Size Backed Up, Number of Reservations, jobs completed, jobs in the queue, maximum number of streams transfer data, chunks closed etc., for the last 24 hours. For more information, see CommCell Growth Report.
The Library and Drive Report now includes the scale and performance information for CommCells. The Report includes two new tables. The Library and Drive table shows the list of drives along with their usage, throughput and the total number of Job occurrences such as backups, restores and errors (if any) for the last 1 hour and 24 hours. The MediaAgent table shows list of Media Agents used along with the number of mounts, maximum streams transferred and number of reservations made. For more information, see Library and Drive Report.
The Media Information Report will display the media that has been retained according to basic retention rules. For more information, see Media Information Report.
The Restore Job Summary Report now includes the files, which were in use or were locked at the time of the restore process. These files are displayed with "Needs Reboot" tag and are restored when the computer is restarted.
Upon selecting Allow Dynamic Content option in CommCell Console, comprehensive report summary will display the job details of a particular job. For more information, see following reports:
Not only can the Resource Pack be downloaded from Maintenance Advantage website, but the Resource Pack is now an installable package. Both Unix and Windows installations are supported. For more information, see Resource Pack.
Schedules and Schedule Policies can be configured to run jobs at a specific time according to a specified time zone. This is useful when your CommCell is spread across several time zones and the job being scheduled requires a specific time, e.g., close of business day. Learn more....
Full granular support of Schedule Policies for all Agents, which eliminates the need to define client-specific Schedule Policies. Learn more...
A Content Indexing Schedule Policy can be created to be associated with storage policies. When the Content Indexing Schedule Policy is run, Content Indexing operations are performed on all associated storage policies and the associate storage policy copies. For more information, see Content Indexing Schedule Policy.
The CommCell Configuration Report displays the configured data protection schedules and schedules policies per subclient. If a subclient is included in multiple data protection schedules, the report will identify the newer schedule as a duplicate schedule for that subclient. This information enables you to better manage data protection operations for the CommCell, whereby you can reduce unnecessary operations and save disk space. Though your environment may require this configuration, schedule and schedule policies can be edited to resolve this, if necessary.
When a user account is deleted, ownership of a schedule policy or report schedule can be transferred to another CommCell user account. Since only the user who created the schedule policy or report schedule can modify the defined schedule pattern, the transfer of ownership enables the new owner to quickly make necessary modifications. For more information, see Schedule Policy or Schedule a Report.
The Service Control Manager now includes CommNet Service, which is installed when the CommNet Server is installed. This service is responsible for communication between the CommCells and CommNet Server components. For more information, see Services.
You can now retain the recently processed Silo(s) in the primary disk mount path. This eliminates the need to restore the data from the Silo Storage when a recently moved silo data is required for access. This results in faster silo restore operations. See Reclaiming Disk Space after Moving Data to Silo for more information.
The details of data migration in silo storage, such as the size of the data already moved to silo storage and the size of the data yet to be moved, are displayed on the Silo Options tab of the Copy Properties. This provides useful information on silo data movement.
SnapProtect is now supported on the Virtual Server iDataAgent (VMware and Microsoft/Hyper-V). See SnapProtect - Virtual Server iDataAgent (Microsoft/Hyper-V) and SnapProtect - Virtual Server iDataAgent (VMware), for more information.
SnapProtect is now supported by the NAS iDataAgent. Learn more...
In addition, SnapProtect now supports RMAN based Movement to Tape allowing you to use Recovery Manager (RMAN) for the movement to media operation.
In addition, SnapProtect now supports RMAN based Movement to Tape allowing you to use Recovery Manager (RMAN) for the movement to media operation.
SnapProtect support on Unix has been extended to include the following platforms, file system, and volume manager types:
The following Snapshot Engines are now supported for SnapProtect:
Snap Test tool is now available to test basic snap engine operations. See SnapProtect - Snaptest Tool, for more information.
Multi-stream backups are now supported for SnapProtect. You can now use multi-stream when moving data to media.
SnapProtect Volume Manager support has been extended to support more configurations for e.g., Multiple Physical Volumes containing one Logical Volume. See Supported Volume Managers, for a complete list of volume managers supported for SnapProtect.
Create secondary snap copies using these engines. Learn more...
Take advantage of SnapProtect with VMAX arrays. Learn more...
Exchange data can now restored from snapshots created in DAG environments. Learn more...
To reduce load on a production Exchange server, snap mining allows a data protection job to be run from an offline copy of a database. For more information, see:
Multiplexing is now supported on NAS attached storage policies containing non-NAS data.
The CommServe computer's defined time zone is the default setting for a storage policy. Subsequently, all associated storage policy copies will inherit the CommServe's time zone as their default setting. Data is aged according to the associated storage policy's defined time zone. If necessary, this time zone can be changed to suit your environment. The following time zones can be designated for a storage policy:
For more information, see Data Aging and Storage Policy Time Zones.
You can now reconcile the differences between the backup statistics on the CommServe database and the actual backup data on the disk volumes. Jobs that do not have corresponding data and backup contents that do not have corresponding jobs can be identified and mitigated. See Disk Volume Reconciliation for more details.
Agentless SRM is a compact version of Storage Resource Management (SRM) where a SRM File System Agent collects data from remote computers (i.e., managed clients) and operates without having to install Agent software on the managed clients. From the SRM File System Agent, managed clients are configured either manually or automatically using an Agentless SRM Policy. For either method, you can import data from a flat file, Active Directory Server, OpenLDAP, and Network Information Service (NIS). A new Agentless Client Group is created when the Agentless SRM Policy is run. Summaries and reports are also provided for various entities (e.g., File Systems, Volume Groups, Shares) for the managed clients. It allows performing discovery level data collection without the need of installing an SRM agent thereby simplifying the use of deployment of SRM for monitoring storage and capacity utilization. For more information, see Agentless SRM.
Critical information that rapidly changes is automatically collected and updated every 15 minutes by the Bull Calypso Communications Service. The information that is collected applies to summaries and a few select categories of a report for the SRM Windows and SRM Virtual Server Agents. For more information, see Real-time Monitoring.
Several new out-of-the box templates are now available to provide a big-picture snapshot of the computers, software, and the storage being used across your enterprise. They are as follows:
This report provides a view of the computers across your enterprise, such as its IP address, operating system, available and used memory, etc. For more information, see SRM Enterprise Reports.
This report provides a view of duplicate files that exist across your enterprise, such as file size, name, modification time, access time, etc. For more information, see SRM Enterprise Reports.
This report provides a view of all disk drives across your enterprise, such as used space, free space, available space, total space, etc. per server. For more information, see SRM Enterprise Reports.
This report provides a view on the type of software that is running on your computers across the enterprise, such as the name of the software package, vendor, the installed anti-virus, etc. For more information, see SRM Enterprise Reports.
This report provides an inventory of entire storage across the CommCell in your enterprise, such as total used, free space, unallocated space, , etc. For more information, see SRM Enterprise Reports.
This report provides a view of the type and capacity of the storage being used across your enterprise, such as storage system type, disk name, total capacity, allocated space, etc. For more information, see SRM Enterprise Reports.
In addition to scheduling only one report, you can schedule several reports with Schedule Policy. In this release, you need to save a report to a template first before adding it to a schedule with Schedule Policy. For more information, see Scheduling Reports with Schedule Policy.
SRM Reports and Summaries now use a sleek, versatile, and easy-to-use reporting framework that enables you to easily view and analyze vital data. Enterprise and Application based reports can now be rapidly generated and customized. The following new features are available in this release:
SRM Views allow you to query information on the SRM Server directly from the SQL database in the same manner as CommServe Views and CommNet Views. These new views provide enterprise-wide information for file system utilization, inactive data via last access time distributions, etc. For more information, see SRM Views.
In addition to CommServe, CommCell Console, MediaAgent, etc., the SRM Server is a supported component for installation in the Express version of Calypso software. For more information, see Express Software Version Support in Express Quick Start Guide.
A graphical representation of the space being used by data per folder at the subclient level is now viewable in a chart. This view (View Folder Size) is available at the subclient level for the SRM NAS, SRM Windows File System, and SRM Unix File System Agents. For more information, see Folder Size.
For easy identification, System Files, Web page files, Temporary files are now classified as file categories by default. A user can now also define their own file categories. Clicking on these distribution charts from summaries and reports will give file level detail including exact location, size etc. For more information on File and Time Categories see File Categories.
The SRM Server now supports folders and shares as billable entities. This facilitates calculating the cost of storage at the folder or share level. Folders are supported for SRM NAS, SRM Windows File System, and SRM Unix File System Agents. In addition to folders and shares, other objects that can be associated with billable entities are databases, subclients, instances, etc. For more information, see Billable Entities.
In this release, summaries have been cosmetically enhanced to render sharper charts and graphs for these SRM Agents:
These agents and SRM functionality have been integrated in this release:
SRM now supports the logical-physical mapping of Oracle data on non-Linux systems. This feature displays the disk information, such as name, serial number, capacity, etc., of Oracle components such as control files, REDO log files, ASM disks, log files, and data files.
SRM for NAS now provides reporting for used or reserved space on NetApp snapshots. Learn more...
Wildcard expressions can now be used to define the subclient content. It allows for the selection of files based on their extension types, negations or specified characters.
Example: *.doc or a*.dll will include all the files with .doc extensions together with files beginning with alphabet 'a' and .dll extension.
This feature is supported for Microsoft Windows File System iDataAgent.
Auto discovered mailboxes can now be automatically assigned to subclient in the event of a change in the storage group affinity, Active Directory user group affinity, or wildcard pattern. This feature is supported for Exchange Mailbox and Exchange Mailbox Archiver. For detailed information, see Automatic Content Management.
When a storage policy copy is deduplicated, synthetic full backups can be created in an accelerated mode by identifying and transferring data signatures (instead of actual data) to the target. This results in faster synthetic full backup operations. See Accelerated Synthetic Full Backups (DASH Full) for more information.
MediaAgent Management capability enables you to perform the following:
You can now add a new domain controller for Domino Directory Services. This enables Domino users to login to the Search Console and perform end-user search. For more information, see Name Servers.
Updates and service packs can be uninstalled from the components within your CommCell using the CommCell Console. This is especially useful if it is necessary to revert back to a previous update version that works more accurately with your environment. For more information, see Uninstall Updates.
A software cache directory that has been manually populated, meaning update files have been manually copied to or deleted from the cache, can be designated as the baseline for all other CommCell components by simply committing the cache. This updates the CommServe database to reflect the same updates and service packs residing in the designated cache directory. This may be necessary to control the specific updates in your environment. For more information, see Automatic Updates.
After upgrading the underlying application of Sybase, Informix, or DB2 iDataAgent, the new version of the application will be updated in Instance Properties once a full backup is run. This provides the facility to track application versions from the CommCell Console as opposed to tracking them from each application. For more information, see Operating System and Application Upgrades.
Option All the above Module(s) to uninstall all installed components from an Unix Computer. For more information, see Uninstall Components from a Unix Computer.
When configuring web administration for an alternate IIS server, you can edit the default port numbers for the HTTP or HTTPS protocols. This is useful if your environment requires ports other than the defaults. For more information, see Configuring an Alternate Computer.
Optimized Backup permits taking advantage of files that may already exist on destination by performing comparison between data on source and destination computer and only new/modified data is transferred to destination. Optimized backup avoids unnecessary re-transfer of pre-existing data during Full backup. If previous backups had files which could not be transferred, these files will be transferred during Optimized Incremental backup. If filtering options are modified, such as removing filter that was previously applied, Optimized Incremental backup transfers these excluded files without having to do a Full backup. Thus Optimized backups are more efficient and robust.
For more information, see Optimized Backup.