NetVault Plug-in for Hyper-V 10.5 - Release Notes

Dell™ NetVault™ Backup Plug-in for Hyper-V® 10.5

These release notes provide information about the Dell™ NetVault™ Backup Plug‑in for Hyper‑V® release.

Topics:

•	About this release

•	New features

•	Enhancements

•	Resolved issues

•	Known issues

•	Software requirements

•	Product licensing

•	Upgrade and installation instructions

•	More resources

•	Globalization

•	About Dell

About this release

Dell NetVault Backup (NetVault Backup) Plug‑in for Hyper‑V (Plug‑in for Hyper‑V) 10.5 is a minor release, with enhanced features and functionality. For complete product documentation, visit http://quest.com/support/.

 

IMPORTANT: Starting with 10.0.0, NetVault Backup provides a web-based user interface (WebUI) to configure, manage, and monitor your NetVault Backup system and installed plug-ins. The procedures described in the user’s guide for this version of the plug-in 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 plug-in.

New features

New features in Plug‑in for Hyper‑V 10.5:

•	Added support for renaming a virtual machine (VM) during an image-level restore. (FB 17229)

•	Added support for file-level restores from image-level backups. (FB 17387)

This addition includes support for the following types of partitions and file systems:

•	Master Boot Record (MBR)

•	GUID Partition Table (GPT)

•	Windows Server® New Technology File System (NTFS)

•	Extended file systems: EXT2, EXT3, and EXT4

•	Volumes managed by Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on Linux-based systems and Logical Disk Manager (LDM) on Windows-based systems as single or spanned disks

•	Added support for NetVault Backup Virtual Client and failover cluster functionality. (FB 17459)

 

IMPORTANT: NetVault Backup Virtual Client usage requires a Cluster Support license. If you have a valid Plug‑in for Hyper‑V license, you can also request a Cluster Support license for this release. For information on the licensing process, including how to obtain the proper license keys, see the Dell NetVault Backup Installation Guide.

Enhancements

The following is a list of enhancements implemented in Plug‑in for Hyper‑V 10.5.

 

Table 1. General enhancements

Enhancement	Issue ID
For Windows Server® 2012 and 2012 R2, added a Show VMs being managed by a cluster option to the Configure dialog box. To avoid confusion, Dell recommends that you do not enable this option.	FB 17297
For environments that use Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2, increased the number of parallel write streams that can be run, which improves load balancing. You can increase the value up to 32.	FB 17469
Added support for hardware-based Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) providers, including Dell Compellent™ and EqualLogic™. Includes support of automatic failover to the software provider if errors occur with the hardware provider.	FB 17672