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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes
  3. New features, enhancements, and changes
  4. NetBackup 9.0 new features, changes, and enhancements
Veritas NetBackup™ Release Notes

NetBackup 9.0 new features, changes, and enhancements

New features, changes, and enhancements in NetBackup 9.0 are grouped below by category. Select a link to read more information about the topic.

New features
  • Preventing a rogue media server after the decommissioning of a media server

  • HSTS is enabled for the web UI

  • NDMP policy management in the NetBackup web UI

  • Configure Samba users for SQL Server instant access and universal shares

  • RESTful APIs included in NetBackup 9.0

  • API keys support for SAML users

  • Instance groups for Oracle and nboradm command to be deprecated in a future release

  • RBAC enhancements

  • Retention Periods with end dates beyond 2038

  • New infinity value for NetBackup images affects OpsCenter custom SQL query building

  • Deprecation of BigData policy to protect Nutanix AHV VMs

  • About restore from a backup in Microsoft Azure Archive

  • Take checkpoints every __ minutes attribute support for NAS-Data-Protection policy

  • Accelerator disabled for NAS-Data-Protection policy

Secure communication features, changes, and enhancements
  • Note:

    Before you install or upgrade to NetBackup 9.0 from a release earlier than 8.1, make sure that you read and understand the NetBackup Read This First for Secure Communications document. NetBackup 8.1 includes many enhancements that improve the secure communications of NetBackup components. The NetBackup Read This First for Secure Communications document describes the features and benefits of these enhancements:

    NetBackup Read This First for Secure Communications

Support changes and enhancements
  • NetBackup 9.0 support additions and changes

  • Support for MongoDB 4.2

  • Support for Azure Stack with managed disks

  • Several shutdown commands to be deprecated in a future release

Installation, upgrade, and configuration changes and enhancements
  • Infinite expiration conversion

Cloud-related changes and enhancements
  • Update cloud configuration file on the primary server immediately after install or upgrade to NetBackup 9.0

  • Cloud Catalyst now removed from NetBackup

  • Support for Qumolo storage arrays

  • Support for Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) storage arrays

Virtualization changes and enhancements
  • Restricted restore mode for VMware agentless restore

  • VMware agentless support for Windows User Account Control (UAC)

Other announcements
  • Veritas Smart Meter is now Veritas Usage Insights

  • OpsCenter Agent and deduplication functionality removed from OpsCenter after the NetBackup 9.0

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