NetVault Bare Metal Recovery 10.5 - Release Notes for Windows Offline Client Plug-in

Dell™ NetVault™ Bare Metal Recovery Plug-in Offline Client for Windows® PE 10.5

These release notes provide information about the Dell™ NetVault™ Bare Metal Recovery Plug-in Offline Client for Windows® PE release.

Topics:

•	About this release

•	New features

•	System requirements

•	Product licensing

•	Upgrade and installation instructions

•	More resources

•	Globalization

•	About Dell

About this release

NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Plug-in Offline Client for Windows PE 10.5 is a minor release, with enhanced features and functionality. For complete product documentation, visit http://quest.com/support/.

 

IMPORTANT: Starting with 10.0, NetVault Backup provides a web-based user interface (WebUI) to configure, manage, and monitor your NetVault Backup system. The procedures described in the user’s guide for this version of the product are intended for the new WebUI. For procedures based on the NetVault Backup Console (user interface available with NetVault Backup 9.x), see the documentation for an earlier version of the product.

New features

New features in NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Plug-in Offline Client for Windows PE 10.5: Added support for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). (27872, 27832, 26383, 17488, VWG-101)

 

NOTE: The 32-bit version does not support UEFI.

Known issues

The following is a list of issues, including issues attributed to third-party products, known to exist at the time of release.

 

Table 1. General known issues

Known issue	Issue ID
Backing up Dynamic Disks is only supported through Disk Raw Mode.	17966 (VDG‑252)
Restoring a GPT partition table to a larger disk results in a new partition that is the same size as the original: When a DR image is taken, the partition table is stored with it. At restore time, this partition is written to the new target disk and re-creates the original disk. If you restore to a disk that is larger than the original, the disk is partitioned to match the original size, which can result in unused disk space. For example, if you restore a 100GB image to a 200GB disk, it is partitioned for 100GB and leaves the extra space unused. You can use third-party partitioning tools, such as GNU Parted or PartitionMagic, to correct this issue.	17967 (VDG‑253)
VMware® 4.x and earlier not supported: Because the NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Plug-in Offline Client for Windows PE is based on a Windows® Preinstallation Environment (PE) that is based on Windows 8, you might encounter the following error if you boot a VM that resides on VMware 4.x or earlier: Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're just collecting some error info, and then we'll restart for you. (0% complete) If you would like to know more, you can search online later for this error: HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED For more information, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2814803.	23137
If you perform a recovery using VaultOS and it is installed on a device connected to the machine through a USB port, the port must use the 2.x protocol or earlier. VaultOS does not currently support the 3.x protocol.	26384
To complete a restore job in which the target contains a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) partition, use a blank disk. Windows PE does not include a tool that can be used to unmount the UEFI partition so that it can be overwritten during the restore; this issue causes restores to fail.	26597