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Arcserve UDP Version 6.0 Features

The Arcserve UDP solution provides an all-inclusive solution for next-generation storage problems of organizations that are trying to protect their data in a rapidly changing virtual, cloud, and services world. The solution does this by providing a single user interface to a wide range of functionality, addressing multi-site business continuity and disaster preparedness problems.

This section provides information about new features, enhancements, support, and dropped features.

• New Features
• Feature Enhancements
• Linux Agent Enhancements
• Database and Platform Support
• Security and Third-party Enhancements

New Features

Important! Access to new features of Arcserve UDP depends on the type of licensing that one owns. Some of the features are only available in Arcserve UDP Advanced Edition, or require Arcserve UDP Premium Edition. You can verify the details in the license guide or visit Arcserve website to contact the Arcserve Sales team of your region.

Here is a list of the new functionalities available in Arcserve UDP V6.0.

• Single installation: Arcserve UDP now lets you download a small web downloader (a unified installer) to help you decide and download the required components based on your selection. Using the unified installer, you can install all features of the selected components, either in Express mode or in Advance mode. Some of the features are listed below:
  • Components-based selection for download and installation. For example: Arcserve UDP, Arcserve Backup, and Arcserve Replication and High Availability.
  • Optional registration for Arcserve Product Improvement Program before downloading Arcserve UDP.
  • After downloading the selected component image, the Express mode install all downloaded and applicable components by default, and Advance mode enables customized sub-components selection and flexible configuration.
  • Express mode install is paused if .Net 3.5 is not detected. After .NET 3.5 is successfully installed, the installation is continued.
  • Arcserve UDP Linux image must be downloaded separately. The related download links for Linux packages are provided in the web downloader and single installer, and also on the Console while adding the Linux Backup Server.
• Instant Virtual Machine: Arcserve UDP lets you create a virtual machine instantly from a recovery point. The advantage of an Instant virtual machine is that it provides an immediate access to data and applications present in the Arcserve UDP backup sessions. An Instant virtual machine eliminates the downtime associated with a traditional restore or conversion of the backup session to a physical or virtual machine.
• Hardware snapshot support: Apart from the software snapshots, Arcserve UDP lets you create hardware snapshots for generating your backup sessions. You can enable hardware snapshots for VMware virtual machine and physical machine backups. For Hyper-V servers, Arcserve UDP provides transportable snapshot backup. For VMware, iSCSI and NFS are supported.
  • Hardware Snapshot for agentless backup of VMware VMs: When the Flex Clone license is not available for use, then following features will be automatically available for use to support Hardware Snapshot:
  • For NFS 3 on Data on tap 8.2.3 or later and 8.3.1 or later: VMware VMs can use the NFS client of the specified version to create a Hardware Snapshot for backup, if the Flex Clone is not licensed. Microsoft NFS client must be installed and configured on the backup proxy server.
  • For 7 mode appliance hosting iSCSI luns: VMware VMs can support the Hardware Snapshot feature using the LUN clone mechanism, if the Flex Clone is not licensed.
  • For C Mode appliance hosting iSCSI luns: VMware VMs can support the Hardware Snapshot feature using the Snap Restore mechanism, if the Flex Clone is not licensed.
• CLI Support on Windows Core Servers, Test Automation, OEM Integration: Arcserve UDP supports submitting backup and restore jobs from the command line.
• Role-based Administration: Role-based Administration (RBAC) allows users to use UDP Console by different roles. Each role can have its own permissions. A super administrator role can create customized roles and permissions. RBAC grants Arcserve UDP the capability of different level of security check for different roles.
• WAN/NAT connectivity support from Console: Arcserve UDP enhances the protection of servers that are behind NAT firewall and run the Console in public cloud. The Console uses the gateway to communicate with servers that are in a client network.
  • Gateway supports proxy setting: Arcserve UDP supports setting up a proxy server on the gateway installation machine. Gateway will use this proxy setting to communicate with its registered Console. The proxy server settings such as IP address, port, username, and password can be changed from the command line using GatewayTool.exe that is located in the following path:

    <Installation Path>\Arcserve\Unified Data Protection\Management\BIN

  • Gateway upgrade: The Gateway automatically upgrades to the same version as its registered Console. After the Console is upgraded, the Console automatically starts the Gateway upgrade.
  • Replication between sites: Arcserve UDP lets you configure cross-site replication in single plan by setting up proxy and NAT in a Replicate task.
  • Plan is associated with a Site: Arcserve UDP associates a plan with a site. When you configure a plan, you can add nodes that belong to a site. Only the Replicate task lets you configure a cross-site replication by selecting remote sites. You can switch sites from the Resources view and see the plans related to that site.
• Configuration Wizard: The wizard provides an easy workflow to set up Arcserve UDP. Using this wizard, you can create a plan to protect different kinds of servers including physical and virtual machines, Windows and Linux machines.
• On-demand replication job: Arcserve UDP lets you start a manual replication from the Console. On the Console, you can click Replicate Now from the context menu of Nodes, and select the replication source and target. The Replicate Now option replicates pending sessions to the target RPS.
• On-demand merge job: Arcserve UDP lets you start a manual merge job to manage recovery points. On the Console, you can click Merge Now from the context menu of Nodes to start an on-demand merge job. You can configure retention settings when submitting the on-demand merge job.
• On-demand File Copy job: Arcserve UDP lets you start a manual File Copy job from the Console. Use the manual File Copy option to submit any missed or new File Copy job. You can run the File Copy job either from the Nodes view or Plans view.
• On-demand File Archive job: Arcserve UDP lets you start a manual File Archive job from the Console. Use the manual File Archive option to submit a File Archive job on demand. You can run the File Archive job either from the Nodes view or Plans view.
• New Arcserve UDP Exchange Granular Restore Utility: The new Arcserve UDP Exchange Granular Restore Utility (AEGR) is a convenient and easy-to-use utility for Exchange GRT. The AEGR utility provides better performance for Exchange granular items (including mail, calendar, task, note, contact, public folder) restore.
  • Support for agentless backup from Hyper-V.
  • Support for Microsoft Exchange 2016.
  • Japanese search support for Subject, From, and To by using the Extended search option.
  • The utility will be automatically configured to match different languages during the installation.
• Granular restore for SharePoint: Arcserve UDP supports granularity restore for SharePoint by documentation. The following objects are supported:
  • Farm
  • Farm without configuration
  • Application Service
  • Web Application
  • Content Database
  • Site Collection
  • Site
  • Document Library / List
  • Folder / File / List Item
• File Archive: Arcserve UDP has introduced a File Archive task that copies the file to a destination and deletes the files from the source location.
  • The File Archive job now runs on an RPS.
  • The File Archive job is not dependent on a catalog job. The catalog job runs as a part of the File Archive job for the selected file archive source.
  • After the files are archived, Arcserve UDP launches another job to delete the source files.
  • Arcserve UDP supports File Archive from a deduplication data store and non-deduplication data store.
  • With the new SDK (Version 2.2.0) implementation, File Archive now supports Azure Zone-redundant Storage (ZRS).
  • File Archive now supports Pre-flight check (PFC).
  • New and improved File Archive Filters UI.
  • File Archive now receives alerts from agents and RPS.
• Copy to Tape: Arcserve UDP integrates with tape and lets you create a plan to migrate the recovery points to a tape.
• Automatically collect diagnostic information: Arcserve UDP provides the option to automatically collect the diagnostic information such as system and application logs and stores them at a single location. You can reference these logs when you contact the Arcserve Support team.

Feature Enhancements

Important! For details on Feature Enhancements in Arcserve UDP 6.0 Update 1, see Update 1 Feature Enhancements.

• Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) support: Arcserve UDP supports adding nodes and RPS using FQDN. The Console uses the configured FQDN of the agent and RPS to communicate with the agent and RPS. This allows the Console, agent, and RPS to be in different domains and still communicate with each other. Agents and the Backup Proxy Server connect to the RPS using the FQDN. This feature is useful if the backup destination for agents is a data store in a remote destination. (For example, the data store is in an MSP environment.)
• File Copy: Arcserve UDP now supports file copy from a deduplication data store, non-deduplication data store, and replication data store (both deduplication and non-deduplication).
  • The file copy job now runs on an RPS.
  • The file copy job is not dependent on a catalog job. The catalog job runs as a part of the file copy job for the selected file copy source.
  • The file copy task also includes advanced scheduling options.
  • With the new SDK (Version 2.2.0) implementation, File Copy now supports Azure Zone-redundant Storage (ZRS).
  • File Copy now supports Pre-flight check (PFC).
  • New and improved File Copy Filters UI.
  • File Copy now receives alerts from agents and RPS.
• Reboot not required for Windows Agent: After the installation of Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows), you do not have to reboot the machine.
• Allow more jobs when a data store is in the degraded state: When a data store is in the degraded state (read-only mode), the backup job and replication-in job will not be able to run, but all other jobs can run as long as they can be triggered either manually or automatically (by scheduling). The following jobs can be run in the degraded state:
  • File system catalog job (on-demand from Find Files / Folders to Restore UI)
  • File copy, File archive, File copy purge job
  • File copy restore job
  • File copy purge job
  • File / Folder restore job
  • Merge job
  • Deletion job
  • Exchange GRT catalog job (on-demand from Restore Exchange Mail UI)
  • Exchange mail restore job
  • Copy recovery point job
  • Mount to recovery point
  • Jump start job
  • Replication job (replication out only)
  • BMR job
  • VM recovery job
  • Instant VM job
  • AD recovery job
• Allow more jobs when a plan is paused: When a plan is paused, Arcserve UDP allow other jobs that can be triggered manually. The following jobs can be triggered manually:
  • Manual backup job
  • Manual replication job
  • Manual merge job
  • Deletion job
  • On-demand file system catalog job
  • On-demand Exchange GRT catalog job
  • File / folder restore job
  • Exchange mail restore job
  • File copy restore job
  • BMR job
  • VM recovery job
  • Instant VM job
  • AD recovery job
  • Jump start job
• Configure Purge or disk reclamation job: Arcserve UDP allows to configure purge or disk reclamation jobs to run in parallel with other regular jobs.
• VMware VIX API is not required for Host-Based Agentless backup: Arcserve UDP now uses vSphere Webservice API to perform any operation such as PFC, Application log purge, and interacting with guest OS of the VM. The installation of VMware VIX is not required.
• Command Line Data Integrity Tool for Deduplication Data Store (as_gddmgr.exe) enhancements: The following enhancements are made in this release:
  • Displays the impacted recovery points if the tool detects corrupted data blocks.
  • Added a new option RebuildHashWithIndexPath to regenerate the hash database by scanning index and reference files. This option regenerates the hash database if the data store is not present on any RPS.
• Stabilization and performance optimization for replication over WAN: Arcserve UDP improved the stabilization and performance optimization for replication over WAN, especially for the replication between two deduplication data stores.
• Throughput optimization for copy recovery point and recover VM jobs: Arcserve UDP has introduced the new full asynchronization mechanism to optimize the throughput of copy recovery point and recover VM jobs from the deduplication data store.
• Application database-level restore for Hyper-V virtual machines: Arcserve UDP supports to dump the database files of Exchange and SQL Server from recovery points backed up from Hyper-V VM.
• Configure page size of Logs and Jobs view: Arcserve UDP lets you configure the page size of logs and job view by changing the following registry key:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Arcserve\Unified Data Protection\Management\Console\ConsolePageSize
  

  The default page size is 250.

• Optional session password in a backup plan: The session password is optional when the backup destination is an unencrypted RPS data store.

Linux Agent Enhancements

Important! For details on Linux Agent Enhancements in Arcserve UDP 6.0 Update 1, see Update 1 Linux Agent Enhancements.

• New platform support for Linux: Arcserve UDP supports the new versions of Linux operating systems: Red Hat Enterprise 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2, CentOS 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2, Oracle Linux 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2 (RHEL compatible kernel), and SLES 11 SP4.
• RPS destination for Linux backup: Arcserve UDP lets you create a plan and store your Linux backup sessions to a recovery point server. The Linux nodes that are backed up to an RPS data store support global source-side deduplication and Infinite Incremental backup. Also, Arcserve UDP allows the replication of Linux recovery points to another RPS, copy the recovery points to a tape, or start the recovery points as an Instant virtual machine.
• Specify snapshot cache path: Arcserve UDP lets you define the path where the snapshot cache is stored.
• XFS support for Linux Agents: Arcserve UDP supports the XFS file system for Linux agents.
• Include specific volume in a Linux backup plan: The backup plan for Linux agents has the Include volume option along with the Exclude volume option. When the Include volume option is enabled, Arcserve UDP backs up selected volumes only.
• sudo authentication support for Linux agents: Arcserve UDP allows sudo users to add Linux nodes and run backup jobs.
• File-level restore for Linux virtual machines: Arcserve UDP allows file-level restore from a host-based agentless backup session of Linux virtual machines.
• Improved BMR capabilities for Arcserve UDP Linux Agents: The following new capabilities are added to Arcserve UDP Linux agents:
  • Instant BMR: Arcserve UDP can instantly recover a complete physical or virtual Linux machine. The supported Linux virtual machines are VMware vSphere, Xen, and Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).
  • Support for UEFI Systems: Arcserve UDP can perform BMR for Linux source nodes that need the UEFI boot method.

Database and Platform Support

• Exchange 2016 Database-level support: Arcserve UDP supports Microsoft Exchange 2016 database-level backup and restore.
• Conditional Support for vSphere 6: Arcserve UDP supports VMware vSphere 6.0 only when you apply the ESXi600-201505001 patch for ESXi 6.0. For more information, see VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch Release ESXi600-201505001 (2116125).
• New platform support for VMware:

  Arcserve UDP supports

  • vSphere/VC 5.5 Update 3 and vSphere/VC 6.0 Update 1.
  • ESXi/vCenter 5.1 Update 3.
  • ESXi/vCenter 6.0 Update 2.
• Agentless Backup of Windows 10 virtual machine certification: Arcserve UDP allows backup and restore of virtual machines (in both vSphere 6.0 and Hyper-V 2012 R2) that have Windows 10 guest OS.
• Windows Client Support for Windows 10: Arcserve UDP supports backup of Windows 10 agents.

Security and Third-party Enhancements

• OpenSSL support: OpenSSL is upgraded to 1.0.1s.
• Libssh2 upgraded to 1.7.0
• Tomcat support: Tomcat upgraded to Version 8.0.28
• JRE support: JRE upgraded to Version 1.8.0_65
• VDDK 6.0 Support: VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit is upgraded to 6.0.2.
• Arcserve UDP v6.0 and Update 1 support Azure Cool Storage.