Veritas NetBackup with NetX

Veritas NetBackup with NetX

Veritas NetBackup™ 10.3 is the industry’s first cloud-optimized, at-scale data protection solution that protects and manages data on-premises, in the cloud, and in cloud-native SaaS applications. NetBackup 10 radically simplifies data protection, streamlines cyber resiliency, and advances visibility and insights into data from the edge to the core to the cloud.

Why upgrade to the latest release of NetBackup?

Enhancements

• Veritas NetBackup moves from License Code to Key – This will require during your upgrade that you download the 10.3 key from VEMS.
• In some scenarios, upgrading from 9.1 to 10.3 may take longer.
• Data-in-transit will be enabled by default from version 10.3 and later
• MSSQL Server agent enhancement
  • NetBackup detects log shipping environments and turns off log truncation in the backups performed with SQL Server Intelligent Policies, batch file-based policies, or protection plans. This feature prevents out-of-sequence events for the target of log shipping.
  • Added capabilities for grouped snapshots. Grouped snapshots quiesce a group of databases together and create a snapshot to back them up.
• Oracle Database Agent
  • Clone from databases and pluggable databases
  • Oracle credential type that you can use to store Oracle credentials for use with cloning operations.
  • Ability to create a custom RBAC role with limited permissions for any Oracle administrators that perform cloning operations.
• Dynamic NAS Enhancements
  • Major improvements in D-NAS backup performance. Up to 5 time faster.
  • NetApp SnapDiff V3 Integration for D-NAS backup and support for indexing
  • Support for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO)
  • Support for Dell EMC Power Scale (Isilon) for Snapshot replication
• Added capabilities to Restful APIs
  • Manage Entitlement via Licensing API
  • Manage Multi-Person Authentication
  • Pre-Check on Workload Assets
  • Rate Limiter :
  • Configure OpenStack Workload automation
  • Configure Meda servers
  • Restore log
  • Snapshot Manager registration
  • Anomaly Extension: List Anomaly

• Continued Migration of Java Admin console features to the Web UI
  • Restore Logs 12 workloads.  Hyper-V, Nutanix-Hypervisor, VMware, Agent Based Recovery, MS-Windows, Standard, Universal Share, NDMP, NAS-Data-Protection, FlashBackup, Cloud-Object-Store and BigData.

• Added detection to Anomaly detection when guest is shutdown under suspicious circumstances.
• Addition of Entropy computation for Anomaly Detection. Clients with 10.3 and later compute an additional risk signal in-line. This monitors the randomness of file content.
• Addition of Multi-Person Authentication - It proactively protects NetBackup primary servers from an undesirable or a malicious act by ensuring that a second authorized user approves that action before it is allowed to take place.
• Addition of Multi-Factor authentication – This method protects against stolen credentials by requiring additional authentication New features, enhancements, and changes 18 NetBackup 10.3 new features, changes, and enhancements steps (or factors) before granting access. This can be configured with common Multi-Factor tools like Microsoft or Google authenticator.

New Workload Support

• • Alma Linux 8 and 9
  • Database Agents for MarinDB 10, PostgreSQL 15, MongoDB 6,7 MySQL 8. Check SCL for OS Support.
  • Support for AWS Snowball Edge – This target can now be used for Data Import from On-Prem to AWS.

End of Life (EOL)

• RBAC replacing legacy functionality
  • Enhanced Auditing feature is not supported as of 10.3 feature has been replaced by Role Based Access Control  (RBAC)

 

• • NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) – The recommended action if you are using this feature is to convert to Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Beyond 10.3 this feature will be retired.
• Deprecated Support of Windows 2016
• OpenStack on CentOS will no longer be supported after 10.3
• Cloud Catalyst to MSDP Cloud Migration is not supported on 10.3 MSDP Servers – Must be performed with a 10.0.0.1 to 10.2.0.1 version of NetBackup Media Server/MSDPC
• Cloud updates
  • It is recommended to update the cloud configuration after upgrading to 10.3
  • Additional permissions have been added for new feature support
    • Azure: list the customer-managed keys
    • Azure: Obtain and install Azure disk Encrypted extension
    • Azure: Assign Permissions o the key vault for encryption
    • AWS: Application consistent snapshots using System service manager
    • Google: Restore of CMK-encryption disks
  • MSDP Cloud credentials are now integrated into the NetBackup CMS
  • MSDP Cloud is now supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

New Install or Upgrade Considerations
The new addition to NetBackup adds a Scale-out Relational Database to the database solution

• New user needed for the Database user for Netbackup 10.2 and higher

Requirements and need for database user with release 10.2 (or higher) (veritas.com)
Net Connection pooler on port 13787
See “How to Plan for an Upgrade to NetBackup 10.2” NetBackup™ Upgrade Guide (veritas.com)

Terminology or Command Changes
As Veritas continues to update its terminology, the deprecated terms and the new terms may be used interchangeably.

NetBackup™ Release Notes (veritas.com) Terminology updates

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Multi-Cloud Optimized

NetBackup brings insights and intelligence to cloud and data management. Using automated and intelligent policies and elastic services, NetBackup 10.1 delivers enhanced protection and simplified operations across expanded workloads including traditional, platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), and container-based applications. It provides secure, resilient, orchestrated delivery of intelligent, event-driven workload protection at the edge, on-premises, and in the cloud, reducing data protection gaps by minimizing human error and time-consuming administrative tasks with new capabilities:

• Integrated SaaS application data protection
• Integrated multi-cloud analytics and insights
• Kubernetes multi-cloud recovery
• Subscription licensing
• Cloud scale technology
• Enhanced cyber-resiliency

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