NetBackup 9.1 support additions and changes
Note:
This information is subject to change. See the NetBackup Compatibility List for all Versions for the most recent product and services support additions and changes.
The following products and services are supported starting with NetBackup 9.1:
Support for Azure Stack 2008 version for BigData policies
Support for NetBackup Continuous Data Protection for VMWare workloads
See Continuous data protection (CDP) provides backup for VMware without stunning the VMs.
Support for vCloud Director 10.2
Bare Metal Restore (BMR) support:
See BMR enhancements.
The following products and services will no longer be supported after NetBackup 9.1:
NetBackup master servers, media servers, and clients running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.0 through 7.3.
NetBackup master servers, media servers, and clients running on CentOS 8.
This release of NetBackup includes these cloud provider support changes and enhancements:
The following cloud providers are now supported:
PowerScale (Isilon PowerScale S3 Storage)
Tencent Cloud (Cloud Object Storage (COS))
Seagate Lyve Cloud (An on-demand solution for mass capacity storage)
XSKY (XSKY Enterprise Object Storage)
These additions and changes apply to regional support for the following cloud providers:
Amazon (AWS) regions:
Added support for Asia Pacific (Osaka) (ap-northeast-3)
IBM COS regions:
Added support for Sydney, Australia (s3.au-syd.objectstorage.softlayer.net)
Added support for Tokyo, Japan (s3.jp-tok.objectstorage.softlayer.net)
Removed support for Melbourne, Australia (s3.mel01.objectstorage.softlayer.net)
A name change for EU United Kingdom (s3.eu-gb.objectstorage.softlayer.net)
For more information about cloud vendor support, see the NetBackup Cloud Administrator's Guide.