{"id":9438,"date":"2020-04-14T06:46:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T20:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=9438"},"modified":"2020-04-14T06:47:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T20:47:02","slug":"say-hello-to-powerprotect-data-manager-19-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2020\/04\/14\/say-hello-to-powerprotect-data-manager-19-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Hello to PowerProtect Data Manager 19.4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;ve just had our <em>long<\/em>, long weekend in Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in the days of tape libraries, there used to be a golden rule for working out the absolute minimum number of slots you needed in a library: it had to be enough to get you through the Easter long weekend without needing a refill. At 4 days (good Friday, the weekend, then a Monday public holiday), it&#8217;s always been guaranteed as the longest period of time you might go without operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any tape libraries to play with over this long weekend (thank goodness!), but that meant I had time to upgrade my PowerProtect Data Manager server to 19.4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, 19.4 has a bunch of great new features, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>SAP HANA support, featuring:<ul><li>Self-self and centralised protection policies.<\/li><li>HANA GUI and CLI backup\/recovery integration.<\/li><li>Control over retention policies, replication and cloud tiering of HANA backups.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Enhanced Kubernetes support \u2013&nbsp;enabling protection of incremental persistent volumes for containers using VMware&#8217;s Cloud Native Storage.<\/li><li>An enhanced automated upgrade process.<\/li><li>Launch access to Cloud Snapshot Manager from the PowerProtect Central SaaS dashboard.<\/li><li>Support for first-class disks with vSphere CNS storage for Kubernetes.<\/li><li>Performance\/scaling enhancements:<ul><li>Up to 10,000 SQL virtual machines protected by the policy engine<\/li><li>Up to 1,000 Oracle databases protected by the policy engine<\/li><li>Improved agent framework and on-boarding process<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>VMware enhancements:<ul><li>PPDM is now available in the VMware Cloud Marketplace<\/li><li>File-level restore support within the vSphere Client portlet for PPDM<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>A variety of storage management enhancements.<\/li><li>Enhanced Oracle backup support.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re already running PPDM, you may not be aware just how seamless the upgrade process is. So below, I&#8217;ve linked to a video I recorded showing the end-to-end process. (The only thing I didn&#8217;t show was downloading the upgrade package from the support site.) As always, you can click the link below to go to YouTube to watch the video, if you&#8217;d prefer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_43157\"  width=\"688\" height=\"516\"  data-origwidth=\"688\" data-origheight=\"516\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1UC7kOyUjiA?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1UC7kOyUjiA\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Upgrading PPDM 19.3 to 19.4 (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"aioseop-link\">Upgrading PPDM 19.3 to 19.4<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy upgrading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just had our long, long weekend in Australia. 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