Summary
Catalogic Software is proud to announce the availability of DPX 4.5.5. This new release of DPX adds support for Windows 2019, Exchange 2019 and provides a virtual Master server OVA deployment mode for new DPX enterprises and other improvements and fixes.
What's New
| Advanced Backup | Microsoft Windows 2019 is supported as a basic and block client in both standalone and cluster environments. | (DPM-15) |
| Advanced Backup | DPX is now qualified with NetApp ONTAP 9.4 | (DPM-29) |
| Advanced Backup | DPX is now qualified with NetApp ONTAP 9.5 | (DPM-34) |
| Advanced Restore | Improves the IAAnywhere utility to support vStor storage. | (DPC-29666 ) |
| Agentless VMware | Improvement to support RRP (Rapid Restore to Production) Wizard for Agentless backups | (DPC-29862 ) |
| Agentless VMware | Agentless Backup to vStor now uses NFS as the default data transport mechanism. | (DPC-30000 ) |
| Application Backup | Microsoft Exchange 2019 is now supported for block level backup for IP-based DAG configurations. | (DPM-14) |
| Setup | New DPX Master Server OVA simplifies deployment of DPX Virtual Appliance. | (DPC-29841 ) |
| Setup | DPX now uses OpenJDK 8 (LTS). | (DPC-29923 ) |
Improvements
| Application Backup | Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Cluster on CSV (Cluster Shared Volume) is supported | (DPC-29527 ) |
| Application Backup | Improves Microsoft Exchange backup by providing option to backup via passive DAG nodes. | (DPC-30280 ) |
| Archive | Improves Archive of Block Backups to protect ReFS volumes for Windows servers. | (DPSUST-1526 ) |
| BMR | Improves Window BMR to support keyboard navigation | (DPSUST-4319 ) |
| File Backup | Improves File Backup to tolerate system resource shortage on protecting WIN2KSYS: task for Windows platforms. | (DPSUST-4484 ) |
| GUI Navigation | Improves the User Interface to add a new Manage button to bring up vStor management interface. | (DPSUST-4512 ) |
| GUI Navigation | Improves the User Interface when adding new media, the capacity now can be specified using TB unit. | (DPC-29921 ) |
| Setup | Updates Apache Tomcat to version 7.0.94 | (DPSUST-4586 ) |
| Tape Migration | Improves the User Interface when defining Auto Migration for File Backup to allow specifying the “Set Retention (Days)” option. | (DPSUST-4596 ) |
Bugs
| Advanced Backup | Fixes an issue where Windows VSS copies were not cleaned up at the end of Block Backup. | (DPSUST-4153 ) |
| Advanced Backup | Fixes an intermittent issue where nibbler.exe process terminated unexpectedly during Block Backups. | (DPSUST-4509 ) |
| Advanced Backup | Fixes an issue where Verification of Block Backup reported completed successfully even though there was | (DPSUST-4470) |
| an error reported with cleanup of temporary storage. | ||
| Advanced Condense | Fixes an issue where Catalog Condense job failed for enterprises with Agentless backups to DPX OSS targets. | (DPSUST-4522 ) |
| Advanced Restore | Fixes an issue with IAAnywhere utility where it failed to connect to an OSS server if the credential contains special characters. | (DPSUST-4462 ) |
| Agentless VMware | Fixes an issue with logs cleanup on Agentless proxy nodes which were never part of the protected nodes of either a File or Block Backup. | (DPSUST-4475 ) |
| Agentless VMware | Fixes an issue with Agentless Backup where a job failed if the selected container object includes VM templates. | (DPSUST-4570 ) |
| File Backup | Fixes an intermittent issue where a Backup failed to catalog if Catalog Condense was running at the same time. | (DPSUST-4466 ) |
| File Backup | Fixes an intermittent issue for File Backup where the WIN2KSYS: task failed on Windows platforms. | (DPSUST-4557 ) |
| File Backup | Fixes an issue with File Backup when enabling Twin option and if backup size is more than 2 TB | (DPSUST-4577 ) |
| GUI Navigation | Fixes an issue where User Interface hung in Agentless Restore if a vCenter was down. | (DPSUST-4166 ) |
| GUI Navigation | Fixes an issue with the User Interface for missing archive to media schedules. | (DPSUST-4476 ) |
| GUI Navigation | Fixes an issue with the User Interface for failing to set landing page for non-SYSADMIN users. | (DPSUST-4527 ) |
| Virtualization | Fixes an issue where Virtualization of a deleted node required the node to be added back to enterprise first. | (DPSUST-4450) |
Known Issues
| DPC-30519 | Setup | DPX 4.5.5 | 4.5.5 Solaris update fails. | Unresolved | OPEN | |
| DPC-30504 | DPX 4.5.5 | The manuals have not been updated to 4.5.5 in DPX 455 master OVA build 62 | Unresolved | IN PROGRESS | ||
| DPC-30281 | BMR | DPX 4.5.5 | BMR of DPX Virtualized Windows 2019 client failed | Unresolved | OPEN | |
| DPC-30248 | BMR | DPX 4.5.5 | BMR failed to mount destination volume (I think). | Unresolved | OPEN | |
| DPC-30068 | Agentless VMware | DPX 4.5.4 | Agentless backup failed: nfs_mount_async failed. | Unresolved | IN PROGRESS | |
| DPC-29672 | Advanced Restore | DPX 4.5.3 | Archive/Block restore does not report the number of files restored. | The presence of a number of files restored field in the one of the jobs, gives customers the expectation that it will actually report the number of files restored. It gives a suitable summary of the amount of data, but not of the files. This leads to customer doubt and customer calls. | Won't Do | RESOLVED |
| DPC-29436 | Configuration | DPX 4.5.2 | Windows Autoupdate didn't complete cleanly. | Unresolved | OPEN | |
Known Issues Public
| Agentless VMware | Agentless backup tasks to vStor fail randomly with error: Resource temporarily unavailable. | (DPC-30268 ) |
| BMR | BMR fails to restore ReFS partitions from Windows 2019 backup with error "Error: DstMnt" in the Restore Monitor screen | (DPC-30487 ) |
| GUI Navigation | The value of VM options is not fully displayed in Agentless restore Summary screen. | (DPC-29631 ) |
| GUI Navigation | Performance numbers do not make sense when German locale is used on machine running the DPX management console. | (DPSUST-4536 ) |
| GUI Navigation | DPX Management console fails to start when using OpenJDK icetea-web and java cache path contains a space , see KB DPX UI fails to start running openjdk iceteaweb for more details and a workaround | (DPSUST-4616 ) |
| NDMP Restore | When running an NDMP Restore the total restore size will show the full volume size and not the expected restore size. | (DPSUST-4448 ) |
| Setup | Can not update 4.5.5 patch from 4.5.x for Sparc - workaround use manual patching from command line | (DPC-30479 ) |
| Tape Migration | Migration of tapes may fail under certain conditions with encrypted tapes | (DPSUST-4401 ) |
| Virtualization | EFI systems sometimes pause at the EFI boot manager. On first boot selecting the correct boot device is required. | (DPC-30277 ) |