The following products and services are supported starting with NetBackup 8.2:

• Platforms

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 (Power) - client

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 (x86-64) - master server, client

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (POWER) - client

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (x86-64) - master server, media server, client

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (z/Architecture) - media server, client

  • Windows Server 2019 (x86-64) - master server, media server

• Virtualization

  • Nutanix support

    • AOS version 5.10

  • VMware support

    • vCloud Director 9.1, 9.5 New features, enhancements, and changes 18 NetBackup 8.2 new features, changes, and enhancements

    • VDDK 6.7 U2

  • Guest OS support for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

• Databases

  • Apache Hadoop HDFS 3.x

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2019

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 CU1

  • Oracle Database 18.4 (18c)

  • Guest OS support for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016

• BMR support

  • BMR client and BMR boot server

    • Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.10 (x86-64)

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 (x86-64)

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 (x86-64)

    • Solaris 11.2 (SPARC)

    • Solaris 11.3 (SPARC)

    • Windows Server 2019

  • BMR server

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 (x86-64)

    • Windows Server 2019

This release of NetBackup includes these Cloud provider changes and enhancements:

• Support for the following cloud providers is discontinued with NetBackup 8.2. However, NetBackup OpsCenter reports job data for these providers for the media servers that use an older version.

  • AT&T

  • Rackspace

  • Atmos

• The following Amazon S3 cloud providers are supported:

  • Kingsoft Standard Storage Service

  • Veritas Cognitive Object Storage

• Support is added for the following Amazon S3 regions:

  • Amazon EU (Paris) and CN: Ningxia

  • Amazon GovCloud US-East region

• Support is added for the Amazon AWS IAM Roles for stream-based backup operations.

• Support is added for Azure Germany region.

• Backing up data to the Microsoft Azure Archive tier is supported.

• Support is added for Glacier Deep Archive storage class for Amazon and AmazonGov.

• For backups to Glacier, the zero the lifecycle policy is changed to direct uploads.

• NetBackup CloudCatalyst now supports Amazon S3 Glacier.