(Crossposted from the "Netting Out NetBackup" blog)
I'm very pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of NetBackup 7.1!
As you may have already read during the First Availability (FA), the key new features of NetBackup 7.1 include:
- Disaster Recovery
- AIR: Auto Image Replication
- Virtualization
- Linux single file restore for VMware
- Smart Policies for VMware
- Manageability / Ease of Use
- Customer Experience
- License / Inv / Deployment reporting
- OpsCenter VBR parity
- Audit Trails (Phase 2)
- SLP Reporting
- LiveUpdate- Client Major Version Upgrade
- Deduplication
- HPUX MSDP support
- Oracle dedupe improvements
- IPv6 Support
- Supportability
- Job flow logging improvements
- Status Code 5 Cleanup
- Proliferation
- Red Hat 6
- AIX 7
- FT Media Server – 8Gb HBA
- BMR Windows support of SFW5
- Snapshot Client updates
Your power links for NetBackup 7.1 information are:
The NetBackup Enterprise Server overview page:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=landing&key=15143
NetBackup 7.1 Download Information:
http://symantec.com/docs/TECH153200
NetBackup 7.1 Documentation:
http://symantec.com/docs/TECH154178
NetBackup 7.1 Late Breaking News (LBN):
http://symantec.com/docs/TECH153422
NetBackup 7.x Compatibility Lists:
http://symantec.com/docs/TECH59978
EDIT: Yes, you can upgrade to 7.1 from ANY 6.x!
To assist with your upgrade, we recommend a stop at the Symantec Operations Readiness Tools page:
https://sort.symantec.com/checklist/install
