Summary
Catalogic Software is proud to announce the availability of DPX 4.5.0. This new DPX version adds support for vSphere 6.5 on Windows Agentless proxies, SharePoint 2016 support, Exchange DAGs without Cluster Administrator Access Point, Oracle Linux 7.3, SQL Server 2016 support on ReFs file systems and many more improvements and fixes.
What's New
Agentless Backup/Restore
vSphere 6.5 is supported with Agentless using Windows proxies.(DPC-28456)
Application Backup
SharePoint 2016 is supported as a backup source with DPX agent-based backup and recovery for Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 2016 clients.(DPC-27976)
Exchange Data Availability Group without a Cluster Administrator Access Point (IP-less DAG) is supported on Windows 2012 R2 X64.(DPC-28273)
BMR
UEFI machines are supported for Linux BMR, Instant Virtualization, and Full Virtualization.(DPC-18580)
Deployment
Oracle Linux (OEL) 7.3 is supported for Block-level backup and recovery operations. Unbreakable kernel and Red Hat compatible kernel are supported.(DPC-28521)
Improvements
Application Backup
For SQL 2016, Resilient File System (ReFS) is now supported on Windows 2016 for NetApp and OSS backup destinations.(DPC-28596)
Deployment
Installers check that fail-over clusters are properly configured before completing installation.(DPC-25842)
Extends DPX full feature set support to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3.(DPC-28369)
Extends DPX full feature set support to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2.(DPC-28697)
GUI Navigation
Wizard dialogs are resizable.(DPC-27844)
Log Collect
Adds the ability to compress log files.(DPSUST-3790)
Virtualization
Instant Virtualization job allows users to optionally choose a datastore for a new Virtual Machine.(DPC-26191)
Adds option to Consolidate VMDK and VM files in one folder.(DPSUST-3724)
Bugs
Block Backup/Restore
Fixes an issue where DPX relationship directory was retaining unneeded files.(DPSUST-3846)
Fixes an issue where restores were prevented due to space restriction on restore source.(DPSUST-3816)
BMR
Fixes an issue with BMR recoveries for Red Hat 7.x. (DPSUST-3803)
Fixes an issue where invalid username or password message was unclear when CDOT instead of SVM account is used.(DPSUST-3839)
Deployment
Fixes an issue where AIX backup job fails after update to DPX 4.4 patch 0061.(DPSUST-3650)
GUI Navigation
Fixes an issue where some lists were improperly sorted in user interface.(DPSUST-3761)
Job Monitor
Fixes an issue where bexcollect utility messages were confusing.(DPSUST-3647)
Fixes an issue where delivery of some job notifications ceased after a software update.(DPSUST-3791)
Fixes an issue where cancelling or cancelled jobs were not being included on some logs.(DPSUST-3827)
Fixes an issue where backup job completed but appeared to fail because return code is inaccurate.(DPSUST-3906)
NDMP Backup
Fixes an issue where NDMP backups targeting $LATEST_ECX failed due to snapshot name formulation from ECX.(DPSUST-3882)
Report
Fixes license report to show units as GB not TB.(DPSUST-3830)
Fixes an issue where some reports that are run through the ECX interface were empty in certain circumstances.(DPSUST-3871)
Virtualization
Detects if VMware Tools is missing for agentless jobs.(DPSUST-3737)
Fixes an issue where agentless backups fail because DPX mistakenly detects that VMware Tools are not installed.(DPSUST-3855)
Known Issues
Summary
The following are known issues for DPX 4.5.0. Additional issues will be added to this article as they are assessed.
Refer to Knowledge Base Articles 47139, 47175, 47203, and 47243 for a similar listing for the DPX 4.4.0 installer release and the DPX 4.4.1 and 4.4.2 and 4.4.4 patch releases.
Linux Backup to CDOT
DPC-28383: DPX Linux backups to a CDOT target using iSCSI employ the first available Logical Interface (LIF) of an SVM node, even if other LIFs have iSCSI available on that SVM.
DPC-28325: Issues occur with Block Backup to CDOT job definition when the DPX Enterprise is updated to DPX 4.4.4 and the Linux client is an earlier DPX version. See Knowledge Base Article 47244.
Linux Backup
DPSUST-3669: DPX Advanced Linux clients compute checksums on source file systems and identify changed blocks. That background process sometimes can cause job progress indicators to change slowly giving false impression of a hang while the backup is actually progressing.
NetApp 7-mode Restore
DPC-28723: When performing an IA-map of a Block level backup from a NetApp 7-mode target, you might fail with rc=20014. The solution is to regenerate the SSL certificate on the 7-mode storage system, running the secureadmin setup ssl command and specifying a key length of at least 1024.
DPC-28756: When performing a selective restore of a Linux UEFI backup with File History enabled from a NetApp 7-mode target, the job appears to complete but the restored files might be missing or unusable. The temporary workaround is to use IA-map. A hot fix is being developed.
BMR
DPC-28634: BMR is not supported for Windows with ReFS volume.
DPC-28284: For BMR Recovery Wizard, there is a user interface problem when dragging from the “Backup” box to the “Destination machine” box if you selected Windows 2012 x64 or later. The workaround is to select the Backup Source Partitions and Destination Disks, then click the Right Arrow button.
Backup to OSS
DPC-27684: In an OSS environment, to delete an Agentless backup job or Block backup job and all its associated DPX backup instances, user must first delete the job definition, then expire the cataloged backup instances, then do a Catalog condense. If this order is not followed then snapshots may remain on the destination resource and the corresponding space will not be recovered.
Agentless Restore
DPC-28555: After Agentless IR restore, Linux UEFI Virtual Machine might fail to start. To fix it, refer to KB-5086.
Windows LDAP
DPSUST-3805: LDAP certificate is not preserved on Windows master server.
Application Verification
DPC-28104: Application verification jobs may complete with a warning message about waiting sssnap response.