We are pleased to announce a new update for the Cristie Virtual Appliance. The 4.6.1 release includes lots of new functionality and bug fixes which bring with it a wealth of benefits.
Headline Enhancements
- You can now add AIX backups into recovery, simulation and DR Orchestration jobs.
- You can now perform recoveries and simulations of AIX and Linux on Power backups to IBM’s Hardware Management Console for Power Systems™.
- Hyper-V 2022 is now a supported target hypervisor environment for recoveries, simulations & replications.
- Nutanix AHV is now a supported target hypervisor environment for recoveries, simulations & replications.
- You can now perform backups, recoveries, replications & simulations of Linux, AIX and Solaris systems using an SSH key instead of a password.
- You can now configure Rsyslog in advanced options.
- Windows targets can now automatically reboot and attach the Windows ISO as part of an upgrade operation.
- Windows Server 2022 is now a supported target with Windows upgrades.
- You can now specify post install scripts when deploying software through Estate Management.
- You can now opt to enable/disable insecure SSL/TLS versions, as well as specify a custom SSL certificate as part of custom ISO creation.
- You can now specify to create E1000 NICs when creating vSphere targets.
- You can now recover CoBMR backups when the Cohesity server has DoD mode enabled.
- You can now see the VA signature without opening the licensing wizard.
- You can now change the log levels of all services through advanced options.
- You can now specify a network group for an OCI target machine.
- Failed software deployment to Windows targets now automatically pull the install log from the %tmp% directory.
- Kube management performance and reliability enhancements.
Bug Fixes
- OCI discovery was slow on some large tenancies.
- CloneManager Offline replications to OCI would sometimes fail for multi disk Windows systems.
- Replication bundle would fail to import with missing dependencies.
- The option to specify thick or thin disks for vSphere targets was hidden.
- The replicate window would sometimes be blank when trying to replicate to a pre-booted replication target.
- VM creation would sometimes fail with the message VVTD should always be enabled for VCPU count > 128.
- Adding active directory groups would not always import all users.
- Importing active directory with a long name would fail.
- Kube Management tickboxes would deselect on screen refresh.
- Manual proxy configuration would leave one proxy in the database if validation failed for the second proxy.
- Hypervisor refresh would not always show the hypervisor name in the event.
- Upgrade Management would not update instantly to show a machine was validating.
- AIX backups would sometimes not update following a completed backup.
- Offsite replication (for Protect for VMs) screen would not allow you to save.
