What's New in 7.2.2?

The following new features and improvements are available in this release. For important information about upgrading from previous releases to 7.2.2, see Upgrading to 7.2.2.

Early Access (EA) Feature

From time to time, Cohesity may add features and request for feedback on their utility and design. These features are termed as Early Access features. Early access features are limited to a closed group of testers for a limited subset of launches. Participation is by invitation only and may require signing a pre-general-availability agreement, including confidentiality provisions. These features may be unstable, change in backward-incompatible ways, and are not guaranteed to be released. There are no SLAs provided and no technical support obligations. These EA features are by default disabled and hidden and need to be enabled separately. If you wish to use these EA features you need to contact your accounts team, who will internally work within Cohesity to enable the feature on your cluster. Cohesity recommends running these features only on non-production clusters.

Data Protection

Databases

IPv6 Support for SAP ASE Databases on Windows

Cohesity now supports the backup and recovery of SAP Sybase ASE databases running on dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) mode, single-stack (only IPv6) mode, and single-stack (only IPv4) mode.

IPv6 Support for Cohesity Oracle Databases

Cohesity now supports the backup and recovery of Oracle for Linux and Windows running in dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) mode.

PITR for MongoDB Early Access

MongoDB now supports Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) at the Protection Group level.

This is an Early Access feature. Contact your Cohesity account team to enable the feature.

Data Guard role-based backup for Oracle Databases

Previously, Cohesity allowed customers to specify a preference only to back up an Oracle Data Guard Database when its Data Guard Role was a Standby. Cohesity has extended this capability now to allow customers to specify a preference to only back up when the Data Guard Role is primary.

Oracle Pluggable Database (PDB) Alternate Restore with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

Previously, Cohesity supported data protection of Oracle Container Databases (CDBs) and Oracle Pluggable Databases (PDBs). However, there was a limitation that we did not automate PDB alternate restores when the Oracle CDB database had Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) enabled.

Cohesity now supports alternate restores of Oracle Pluggable Databases (PDBs) when the Oracle CDB database has Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) enabled. This provides the full spectrum of backup and restore operations for CDBs and PDBs.

Enhanced Oracle source registration

Cohesity now supports registering Oracle RAC/AP Clusters through an optional endpoint accessible from the Cohesity cluster. This endpoint can be the IP/FQDN/shortname of any of the nodes in the Oracle cluster.

Physical Servers

New push model for Cohesity Agent Upgrades

Cohesity agent upgrades will now use gRPC over agent ports, allowing Cohesity clusters to push updates directly instead of relying on agents using the traditional HTTP/HTTPS pull method. This approach makes Cohesity agent upgrades better suited for heavily firewalled or regulated environments that enforce strict egress network traffic controls.

Both cluster and agent must be running version 7.2.2 or later. The new push model applies only to upgrades beyond the 7.2.2 version. Older agents will continue to use the pull method.

SAN

Multi-volume Snapshot Protection Support for Pure Protection Groups

Cohesity now supports the backup and recovery of a Pure Protection Group (multi-volume consistency group).

Cloud VMs

Protect AWS EC2 with UEFI-preferred Boot Mode

Cohesity now supports the backup and recovery of AWS EC2 instances with UEFI-preferred boot mode.

NAS

Add Note when Pausing Protection Groups and Runs

Cohesity now allows you to add notes when pausing current or future runs of Protection Groups.

Virtualization

Support for Environment Variables

Cohesity now supports improved snapshot management using Pre/Post script operations through kStorageArraySnapshot, which can be used with the COHESITY_BACKUP_TYPE variable in these scripts.

Overwrite Existing VM for Hyper-V

Cohesity now allows you to choose how to handle the original VM when recovering it to the original location for Hyper-V VMs by using the option to overwrite the existing VM.

Kubernetes

Configuring User-defined Priority Class, Labels, and Annotations for Cohesity Deployed Resources Early Access

Cohesity allows you to specify priority class names for pods deployed by it. You also have the option to select labels and annotations that will be applied to the pods and services deployed by Cohesity.

This is an Early Access feature. Contact your Cohesity account team to enable the feature.

Include or Exclude Resource types from the Kubernetes Namespace Early Access

During the backup of Kubernetes Namespace, you now have the flexibility to include or exclude resource types within Kubernetes Namespace using the Enable Resource Inclusion/Exclusion option. You can back up only PVCs without capturing entire pods or other Kubernetes resources.

This is an Early Access feature. Contact your Cohesity account team to enable the feature.

Support for Protection of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Cohesity now supports the protection of VMs running on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

Monitoring

Syslog Message Length Improvements

In previous releases, Syslog messages were limited to a maximum length of 1K, resulting in truncation of longer messages. With this enhancement, the truncation limit has been removed, allowing Syslog messages to be transmitted in their entirety without being shortened.

External Targets

Optimize Storage or Network Usage with S3-compatible and NAS External Targets

When registering S3-compatible and NAS external targets with Incremental Forever archival, you can now choose to optimize either the archive storage consumption or network bandwidth utilization.

SmartFiles

Upgrade S3 Views to the Object ID Object Key Pattern

You can now upgrade an S3 View to the Object ID object key pattern. Cohesity recommends using Object ID as the object key pattern to obtain better performance and scalability for the following operations:

PutObject
ListObjects
ListObjectVersions

Cluster Management

Cohesity Host OS Transition to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 9.2)

Starting with this release, Cohesity will transition to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 OS as the Host Operating System, replacing RHEL 7.9.

Software Update Early Access

Cohesity has revamped the UI to improve the user experience for managing software upgrades and patching within your cluster. You can now track the progress of upgrades and patches in real-time, monitor the status of each node, track completion times, and address any issues that arise during the process. Additionally, the Cohesity patch package format has changed to .img extension instead of .tar.gz.

This is an Early Access feature. Contact your Cohesity account team to enable the feature.

Security

Cluster-Level Encryption Enabled by Default for New Clusters

Cluster-level encryption is now enabled by default when creating a new cluster. Cohesity recommends encrypting data whenever feasible, but administrators can opt out during cluster setup if needed.

CE and Next-Gen Cloud Edition Clusters

Object Lock for AWS NGCE Cluster

The AWS Next-Gen Cloud Edition (NGCE) cluster now supports enabling Object Lock on the AWS object storage (S3 bucket) where protected data will be down-tiered. Object Lock ensures that the down-tiered data remains immutable, preventing any deletion or overwriting.

Object Lock for Azure NGCE Cluster

The Azure Next-Gen Cloud Edition (NGCE) cluster now supports enabling Object Lock on the Azure data storage (Azure Hot Blob Storage) where protected data will be down-tiered. Object Lock ensures that the down-tiered data remains immutable, preventing any deletion or overwriting.

New Instance Types Support for AWS CE Cluster

Cohesity now supports m6a.4xlarge and m6i.4xlarge instance types for AWS Cloud Edition cluster nodes.

FortKnox Vaulting Support for AWS and Azure NGCE Clusters

AWS and Azure NGCE clusters can now vault data to a Cohesity FortKnox cloud vault.

Hardware Platforms

New Hardware Configurations

Cohesity supports the following new configurations on the Cohesity cluster:

Model Number	Capacity Per Node (TB)	Disk/SSD Size (TB)	Category	Form Factor
C5204	12	1.6	General Purpose Node	2U4N
C5208S	24	1.6	General Purpose Node	2U4N
C5212S	36	1.6	General Purpose Node	2U4N
C5218	54	3.2	General Purpose Node	2U4N
CNG3 Compute Node	NA	NA	General Purpose Compute Node	2U4N

Model Number	Capacity Per Node (TB)	Disk/SSD Size (TB)	Category	Form Factor
HPE DL380 Gen11	48	4	General Purpose Node	2U1N
	96	8
	144	12

Model Number	Capacity Per Node (TB)	Disk/SSD Size (TB)	Category	Form Factor
Cisco UCS C240 M6 All-Flash	184	7.68	Performance Node	2U1N
Cisco UCS C240 M6 All-Flash	368	15.36	Performance Node	2U1N

Model Number	Capacity Per Node (TB)	Disk/SSD Size (TB)	Category	Form Factor
HPE DL345 Gen11	48	4	General Purpose Node	2U1N
	96	8
	192	16

Model Number	Capacity Per Node (TB)	Disk/SSD Size (TB)	Category	Form Factor
Cisco UCS C220 M7 All-Flash	76	7.6	Performance Node	1U1N
Cisco UCS C220 M7 All-Flash	153	15.3	Performance Node	1U1N

Model Number	Capacity Per Node (TB)	Disk/SSD Size (TB)	Category	Form Factor
Cisco UCS C225 M8 All-Flash	38	3.8	Performance Node	1U1N
	76	7.6
	153	15.3

Model Number	Capacity Per Node (TB)	Disk/SSD Size (TB)	Category	Form Factor
Cisco UCS X-Series M7	91	15.3	Performance Node	7U

Model Number	Capacity Per Node (TB)	Disk/SSD Size (TB)	Category	Form Factor
Supermicro ASG-1115S-NE316R All-Flash	122.8	7.68	Performance Node	1U
Supermicro ASG-1115S-NE316R All-Flash	245.7	15.36	Performance Node	1U

Model Number	Capacity Per Node (TB)	Disk/SSD Size (TB)	Category	Form Factor
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR665 v3 All-Flash	153	7.68	Performance Node	2U

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