What's new in NetBackup v10 - Azure Stack ADFS based authentication in NetBackup Resiliency Platform
There are two options of authentication mechanism used by Microsoft Azure Stack: Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS) is a software component developed by Microsoft to provide Single Sign-On (SSO) authorization service to users on Windows Server Operating Systems. ADFS allows users across organizational boundaries to access applications on Windows Server Operating Systems using a single set of login credentials. Deploying with ADFS allows identities in an existing Active Directory forest to authenticate with resources in Azure Stack Hub. In a connected scenario, you can choose Azure AD or AD FS. For a disconnected scenario (without a connection to the internet), only AD FS is supported. With Veritas NetBackup v10.0, Azure Stack can be configured in Resiliency Platform to use ADFS authentication type allowing customer to use their own Active Directory and in a disconnected scenario. It also allows customers to recover virtual machines from Azure AD to Azure ADFS or vice-versa as well Azure ADFS to Azure ADFS.Protecting Azure Stack HCI with NetBackup
Backup and recovery are essential to protect the data on your hybrid-infrastructure investments, but such solutions can introduce complexity or fall short of what’s necessary to protect all your organizations’ workloads. As a leader in data backup and recovery, Veritas NetBackup provides enterprise IT organizations with a simple and powerful way to ensure the integrity and availability of your data, including hybrid clouds. Azure Stack HCI is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) cluster solution that hosts virtualized Windows and Linux workloads and their storage in a hybrid environment combining on-premises infrastructure with Azure cloud services. NetBackup supports Microsoft Azure Stack HCI with the same robust features NetBackup already delivers for Hyper-V. Check out the link below for more information on how and benefits of protecting Azure Stack HCI with Veritas NetBackup https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/Protecting-Azure-Stack-HCI-with-NetBackup/td-p/892479Protecting Azure Stack HCI with NetBackup
With NetBackup 9.1 and higher, you can now reduce the complexity of your data management with a fast, cost-effective, and unified Azure Stack HCI backup and recovery solution. Backup and recovery are essential to protect the data on your hybrid-infrastructure investments, but such solutions can introduce complexity or fall short of what’s necessary to protect all your organizations’ workloads. As a leader in data backup and recovery, Veritas NetBackup provides enterprise IT organizations with a simple and powerful way to ensure the integrity and availability of your data, including hybrid clouds. Azure Stack HCI is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) cluster solution that hosts virtualized Windows and Linux workloads and their storage in a hybrid environment combining on-premises infrastructure with Azure cloud services. NetBackup supports Microsoft Azure Stack HCI with the same robust features NetBackup already delivers for Hyper-V. Benefits of protecting your Azure Stack HCI with NetBackup 1. Ensure 100% availability of your virtual machines with NetBackup’s snapshot technology, which uses Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) or Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) depending on your Windows server version. 2.Reduce the size of your backup image with Block-level backups of the virtual machine. 3. Optimize backup performance and increase speed to restore with the NetBackup Accelerator. By using Microsoft’s resilient change tracking (RCT) NetBackup can offer faster backups—in full or incremental—of your virtual machines. 4. Restore full virtual machine from: Full backups of the VM, Block-level incremental backups of the VM, and Accelerator backups of the VM. 5. Restore individual files of the virtual machine from: File-level incremental backups of the VM, Full backups of the VM, Block-level incremental backups of the VM, and Accelerator backups of the VM. 6. Flexibility to restore to the original location or alternate location. As shown on the screenshot below 7. Reduce human error and intervention by automating backup and recovery with Intelligent Policies allowing you to automatically select virtual machines based on your organizations defined criteria. 8. Ensure a workload will operate correctly when data is restored with application consistent backups. Check out below links for more detailed information: Veritas NetBackup™ for Hyper-V Administrator's Guide: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/21357025-148949449-0/index Veritas NetBackup ™ Enterprise Server and Server 9.0 - 9.x.x OS Software Compatibility List https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/NB_90_OSSCL
