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New Features and Enhancements

This section describes the new features and enhancements made to the CA ARCserve RHA family of products, formerly sold as CA XOsoft.

This section contains the following topics:

Change Scenario While Running

Cloud Support

Enhanced Cluster Support

Secure Communication

Virtualization Enhancements

Features No Longer Supported

Known Issues

Change Scenario While Running

Effective with this release, you may modify certain scenario properties without having to stop a running scenario or force a resynchronization. The properties you may modify include:

Cloud Support

Effective with this release, the following features are introduced:

Replicate to the Cloud

You may use an Amazon Web Services EC2 cloud instance as the replication target for your Windows Server data without having to manually provision the replica on EC2. Cloud Replication supports file and byte level replication, multiple EC2 instances running on AWS, scheduled, periodic and continuous replication in forward directions, and recovery from the Cloud.

Failover to the Cloud

You may use an Amazon Web Services EC2 cloud instance as a high availability target for full system protection without having to manually provision the replica on EC2. Failover to Cloud supports full system protection of multiple Windows 2003 and 2008 R2 servers to an online replication target in the EC2 cloud, application and server monitoring, continuous replication in a forward direction, and offline recovery from the Cloud.

Note: An active and configured Amazon Web Services EC2 account is required for these features. Amazon Web Services does not yet officially support Windows 2008 R2 and we have observed issues during testing with this environment.

Enhanced Cluster Support

Effective with this release, CA ARCserve RHA provides the following protection to Microsoft Failover Cluster 2008 systems:

Secure Communication

Effective with this release, SSL 128-bit encryption for securing communication between on-premises and off-premises servers without using a third-party VPN is now supported.

Note: Secure Communication is not a VPN replacement and does not extend the local LAN or circumvent firewalls.

Virtualization Enhancements

Effective with this release, Full System scenarios support the following virtual platforms: