{"id":11885,"date":"2024-10-22T09:06:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T23:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=11885"},"modified":"2024-10-23T08:24:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T22:24:13","slug":"whats-new-in-networker-19-11-and-19-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2024\/10\/22\/whats-new-in-networker-19-11-and-19-10\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s new in NetWorker 19.11 (and 19.10)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve done an update about recent NetWorker releases, and it&#8217;s high time I correct that. In this post, I want to cover off new features and updates included in both NetWorker 19.10 and 19.11. Since I&#8217;m covering two releases, I&#8217;ll break the updates up into regular topics but note which release it came in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Security<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[19.10] You can use restricted data zones with vCenters and vProxies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[19.10] For newer PowerProtect Data Domain installs, the NetWorker server uses DDBoost 7.12 or higher with a default encryption strength of <strong>medium<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[19.10] NetWorker Virtual Edition now has its ssh rootid password protected.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[19.10] The OpenSSL library has been updated to 1.1.1n.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NetWorker Web UI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[19.10] You can now perform backup and recovery of the WebUI database.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[19.10] Tape libraries can now be managed with the WebUI.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[19.11] Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) can now be enabled for local users of the UI.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[19.11] Create and manage NDMP clients within the WebUI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NDMP<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[19.10] NDMP indexing has been increased; you can now index files\/folders in NDMP backups that exceed 250,000,000 files.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[19.10] You can now use the REST API to query NDMP client details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">vCenter and VMware<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[19.10] New option introduced allowing you to set an environment variable (NSRVIM_TIME_INTERVAL) which controls how often NetWorker queries the vCenter server for configuration changes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[19.10] Proxy datastore configuration now supports wildcards.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[19.10] Transport modes can be specified for VMware backups when performing the backup.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[19.11] vProxy adds support for SLES 15 SP4.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NetWorker Server<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[19.10] You can install NetWorker now on an NFS share presented from PowerProtect DD, Isilon, and Linux NFS servers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[19.11] You can now enable a disaster recovery state for the NetWorker server; while this mode is enabled, non-DR workflows (e.g., backup, clone, etc.) are disabled.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[19.11] Japanese language support for REST API messages from the NetWorker server.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[19.11] New options to control the level to which reverse DNS calls are performed within NetWorker.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[19.11] REST API has been enhanced to allow you to configure tape drives and tape libraries on the system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Storage Node Support<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>[19.11] Storage nodes are no longer supported for HP-UX, AIX or Solaris. Please transition these to Windows or Linux.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">[19.11] Azure Backup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Using NetWorker 19.11, you can now perform backup and recovery of Azure virtual machines. You can:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Create snapshots and write them to Data Domain systems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Schedule the backups with appropriate retention, clone the backups, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This lets you extend your NetWorker data protection functionality to cover Azure VMs as well as the normal plethora of on-premises and other workloads, a huge win for NetWorker customers stretching into the public cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">[19.11] Dynamic Filesystem Backup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Filesystems just keep growing and growing, and the chances of a business running one or more large-scale distributed filesystems just keeps on increasing, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 19.11, NetWorker introduces the notion of dynamic fileystem backup (this can&#8217;t be used for Azure Filesystem); with dynamic filesystem backup, you designate primary clients and fill-in clients. At the start of the backup process, NetWorker does some analysis to work out how many helper nodes it&#8217;ll need. Each node gets automatically assigned to a particular segment of the filesystem, but all index details are consolidated under a single, globally accessible index, making the finding and recovery of individual files even across large distributed filesystems a breeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where to go from here<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>NetWorker 19.10 and 19.11 \u2013 amongst other versions of course \u2013 are all accessible from the NetWorker support landing page at Dell, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dell.com\/support\/home\/en-au\/product-support\/product\/networker\/overview\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dell.com\/support\/home\/en-au\/product-support\/product\/networker\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve done an update about recent NetWorker releases, and it&#8217;s high time I correct that.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[135,230,1228,382,1249,1254,1036,1087],"class_list":["post-11885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-networker","tag-azure","tag-cloud","tag-dense-filesystem","tag-filesystem","tag-networker","tag-security","tag-ui","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/bigStock-Update.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-35H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11888,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885\/revisions\/11888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}