Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
- About NetBackup 8.1.2
- New features, enhancements, and changes
- About new enhancements and changes in NetBackup
- NetBackup 8.1.2 new features, changes, and enhancements
- NetBackup 8.1.2 introduces a new web user interface
- Veritas Smart Meter helps you manage deployment more efficiently
- RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 8.1.2
- Veritas offers the NetBackup Parallel Streaming Framework SDK
- About secure communications in MSDP for Auto Image Replication
- NetBackup 8.1.2 support additions and changes
- VxUpdate replaces LiveUpdate
- NetBackup no longer supports HP-UX and AIX platforms for master and media servers
- Newer Red Hat Linux compilers used with NetBackup 8.1.2
- Linux device persistent binding changes
- BMR introduces secure communication support on AIX and HP-UX
- Supported NetBackup BMR configurations based on operating system and patch release
- Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release
- Update cloud configuration file on the master server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 8.1.2
- Support added for Amazon GLACIER_VAULT storage class
- Auditing enhancements
- NetBackup integration with Vnomic
- NetBackup's BigData policy now protects Microsoft Azure Stack and HBase workloads
- Operational notes
- About NetBackup 8.1.2 operational notes
- NetBackup installation and upgrade operational notes
- NetBackup administration and general operational notes
- NetBackup administration interface operational notes
- Access control methods supported in NetBackup 8.1.2
- NetBackup Administration Console does not show a failure message for incorrect CloudPoint plug-in credentials
- "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 API operational notes
- NetBackup Bare Metal Restore operational notes
- NetBackup with Veritas CloudPoint operational notes
- NetBackup database and application agent operational notes
- NetBackup internationalization and localization operational notes
- NetBackup for NDMP operational notes
- NetBackup SAN Client and Fibre Transport 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
- 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
- Virtual machine alert notification may be incorrect for the VMware policies with specific Replication Director options
- 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
About NetBackup compatibility lists and information
The NetBackup Release Notes document contains a great deal of the compatibility changes that are made between NetBackup versions. However, the most up-to-date compatibility information on platforms, peripherals, drives, and libraries can be found on the Veritas Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) for NetBackup website.
See About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools.
For NetBackup, SORT provides an Installation and Upgrade Checklist report as well as the ability to collect, analyze, and report on host configurations across your environments. In addition, you can determine which release contains the hot fixes or EEBs that you may have installed in your environment. You can use this data to assess whether your systems are ready to install or upgrade to a given release.
In addition to SORT, Veritas has made available a variety of compatibility lists to help customers quickly reference up-to-date compatibility information for NetBackup. These compatibility lists can be found on the Veritas Support website at the following location:
http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility
Note:
Select "Compatibility Between NetBackup Versions" from the compatibility lists for information about which versions of NetBackup are compatible with each other.