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Rapid Recovery 6.3 - Release Notes

End of support for tiering recovery points to the DR appliance

Tiering recovery points to the DR appliance deprecated and not supported in release 6.3

A tiering repository is a secondary repository (located on a DR Series deduplication appliance) defined on your Core into which recovery points in Rapid Recovery Core versions 6.1.x and 6.2.x were relocated from a primary DVM repository.

NOTE: In release 6.2, tiering was only supported on DR Series deduplication appliances running OS 4.0.

Recovery points are deleted from your primary DVM repository after they are moved. The Core continued to manage the relocated recovery points until they were eventually rolled up and deleted.

As indicated previously, the tiering feature is discontinued and is no longer supported by Rapid Recovery Core.

Rapid Recovery customers who want to continue tiering must remain on Rapid Recovery Core version 6.2.1 or 6.1.3. These customers cannot take advantage of new features of Rapid Recovery Core or Agent.

End of support for Azure Service Management

Azure Service Management features deprecated

Microsoft announced that support for Azure Service Management (ASM) is retired as of June 30, 2018.

Accordingly, in release 6.3, Rapid Recovery no longer supports ASM for virtual export. Instead, Rapid Recovery virtual export to Azure exclusively supports Azure Resource Manager (ARM). When setting up a cloud type for your Azure account, use cloud type Microsoft Azure Resource Manager (Virtual Export).

NOTE: When using ARM with Rapid Recovery, additional steps are required for your Azure account. These prerequisites are fully addressed in the topic "Before virtual export to Azure" in the Rapid Recovery 6.3 User Guide.

When archiving recovery points to Azure in Rapid Recovery release 6.3, you can use Azure storage accounts created using either ARM or ASM, as long as the Rapid Recovery cloud account type is Microsoft Azure (for Archive).

However, the use of classic Azure storage accounts in Rapid Recovery Core is deprecated, and support in Rapid Recovery Core is expected to be removed in a future release. As a best practice, Quest recommends creating storage accounts using ARM and using this fully supported storage account type for both virtual export and archiving recovery points.

You are no longer required to associate Azure management certificates with your Rapid Recovery Core, or to refresh or delete them. You are also no longer required to obtain or load your Azure Publish Settings File. These setup steps were required exclusively for configuring ASM with your Core.

Correspondingly, the following topics have been removed from the Rapid Recovery 6.3 User Guide:

  • Working with Azure management certificates associated with your Core
  • Obtaining the Publish Settings file for your Azure account
  • Loading an Azure management certificate
  • Refreshing or deleting Azure management certificates

For more details in these Release Notes, see Support for Azure Resource Manager, Core cloud account types, and Azure storage accounts.

SQL Server support changes

Rapid Recovery customers are advised of the following changes in support for SQL Server.

Support for SQL Server 2005 is discontinued

In April of 2017, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 reached end of life. Microsoft no longer supports that version of Exchange Server..

Accordingly, Rapid Recovery support of Exchange 2007 is deprecated. As indicated in Rapid Recovery 6.2.1 Release Notes, customers are reminded that Rapid Recovery no longer supports SQL Server 2005. References to this version of SQL Server are removed from documentation in this release.

Support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 is deprecated

Mainstream support by Microsoft for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 ended on July 8, 2014. Extended support by Microsoft for these versions ends in July of 2019.

Customers are advised that support in Rapid Recovery for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 is deprecated. In a future release of Rapid Recovery Core (after July 2019), support for these versions of SQL Server will be removed. Notification is provided so that customers can plan in advance accordingly.

Quest recommends migrating to newer, supported versions of SQL Server if you want to continue protecting your data using Rapid Recovery.

Resolved issues

This topic contains resolved issues in the following categories:

The following is a list of issues addressed in this release.

 

Table 1: Core and Windows resolved issues

Issue ID Resolved Issue Description Functional Area
6682

Double license consumption corrected for release 6.3. Rapid Recovery Core consumes one license from your license pool per processor or CPU socket. In earlier releases, if protecting the same hypervisor in 2 Cores, twice the number of licenses were consumed. Now, if you protect guest VMs from the same VMware host in two separate Rapid Recovery6.3 Cores, only a single set of licenses from your license pool (one per socket) are consumed. Requirements: Both Cores must be part of the same Rapid Recovery License Portal group and both Cores must be version 6.3.0 or greater.

License consumption

108313

Upgrade, Deploy and other web-installer dependent jobs were failing due error code: 3002. Message: "The certificate for MSI issued to Quest Software Inc is invalid."

Installer

108264

Partial backup data was not deleted from repository after failed transfer.

Repository

108098

Mount for recovery points from attached archive failed with error: 'The index xxxxxx is greater than the maximum valid index, which is one less than the capacity yyyyyy' if the volume had been shrunk.

Mounts, Archive

108085

When Core service was not shut cleanly and an archive was attached, the GUI did not load, with error "Oops.. Looks like something went completely wrong."

Core service, Archive

108064

Agent protection failed with error "GetResponse timed out (stuck on collecting metadata)" on specific environment.

Core service, Archive

108006

In a specific environment, when a scheduled archive was canceled and the incomplete archive deleted, the next scheduled archive did not include the deleted recovery points, and the resulting archive could not be imported. To correct this issue, the archive structure is refreshed after a scheduled archive is canceled, and subsequent archives are valid.

Scheduled archive

107976

Scheduled archives failed, with error "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: source" after upgrade from 6.1.3 to 6.2.x.

Scheduled archive, Upgrade

107971

Core service hung; GUI did not load, with error "Oops.. Looks like something went completely wrong" in specific cases.

Core service

107941

Replication rate for huge base images were extremely slow due to small write buffer size on the target Core.

Replication

107933

Archive to the Amazon Glacier failed after minor network interruption due to the absence of retry logic that has subsequently been added.

Archive to Amazon Glacier

107785

There was no ability to archive cluster nodes without adding cluster volumes to an archive.

Archive, Clusters

107768

Rollup failed with error "cannot find the recovery point with the id __" on a system test environment.

Rollup

107764

No virtual machines were displayed on the Virtual Machines page of a protected vCenter/ESXi server when a protected VM with Agent installed was added for agentless protection, and the VM was associated with its parent host.

Protection of ESXi. Linking

107568

Data was lost on disk located on Scale Out File Server (SOFS) if you added some data to the disk and evicted active SOFS cluster node.

Hyper-V, agentless protection, clusters

106296

Unexpected base images occurred for cloned disks during Hyper-v agentless transfers.

Hyper-V, agentless protection

105606

Replication was not paused after upgrading Target Core from release 5.4.3 to release 6.2.x.

Replication

105560

Not all disks were exported after VirtualBox export of ESXi agentless VM based on Windows 8.1 x86 and Windows 8.1 x64.

Virtual exports

103783

Core GUI would not launch after upgrade from 6.1.1 to 6.1.2 on specific environment.

Core Console

102521

Azure Market Place Offer used "dell_software" in the URI.

Azure

102321

Core GUI hung for Agent Settings page when maintaining repository was in progress.

Repository, Maintenance Job, GUI

 

Table 2: DL appliance resolved issues

Issue ID Resolved Issue Description Functional Area
107303 Retention policy settings became disabled on DL1000 and DL1300 after upgrade to 6.2.0. Retention policy

 

Table 3: Documentation resolved issues

Issue ID Resolved Issue Description Functional Area
N/A

License and copyright information for the following components (missing from release 6.2 in-product help) appears as expected in the Rapid Recovery Core in-product help topic "Third-party components":

  • ANTLR 3.3.3
  • bash-completion 2.1
  • btrfs-tools 4.4.1
  • ca-certificates 2016.10.04
  • casper 1.376
  • Castle Windsdor 2.5.3
  • Chromium 57
  • cURL 7.47
  • docutils 0.14
  • efibootmgr 0.12-4
  • fakeroot 1.20.2
  • gcc 5.3.1
  • gdisk 1.0.1
  • Google APIs Client Library for .NET 1.32.2
  • htop 2.0.1-1
  • JavaScriptEngineSwitcher 2.4.10
  • jQuery 1.9.2
  • Newtonsoft.Json 11.0.2, 4.0.8
  • jsTree 3.1.0
  • Linux-libc-dev 4.4.0
  • libc6-dev-2.23
  • libc-dev-bin 2.2.3
  • libesdb 2015409
  • libext2fs1.43.4
  • libfakeroot 1.20.2
  • libreadline5 5.2
  • lsscsi 0.27-3
  • lupin-casper 0.57
  • lvm2 2.02.167
  • make 4.1
  • mc 4.8.15-2
  • mdadmin 3.3-2ubuntu7
  • Microsoft Windows Azure Storage 8.2.0
  • Mono 5.2
  • openssh-server 7.2p2
  • Oracle ManagedDataAccess 12.2.1100
  • parted 3.2-15
  • PuTTy 0.70
  • screen 4.3.1-2build1
  • Select2 4.03
  • SSH.Net 2016.1.0
  • zlib 1.2.8
  • python minimal 2.7.11

Additionally, this section contains substantial updates to ensure all third-party components are identified as required.

Third-party components, licensing, copyright

108327

For agentlessly protected machines only, web help contains a link on the protected virtual machine's System Information page that shows an incorrect topic, "Viewing system information for the Core." The link has been corrected and now points to the topic "Understanding system information for a protected machine."

In-product help
107985 Support for SQL Server 2005 was discontinued in Rapid Recovery Core release 6.2.1. Accordingly, references to this version no longer appear in documentation for release 6.3. Supportability
106264 Rapid Recovery 6.3 User Guide correctly indicates that log truncation for Oracle is disabled by default and must be enabled if users want this function. Oracle log truncation
101859

Rapid Recovery 6.3 User Guide topic "Deploying a virtual machine in Azure" has been modified. It contains no unnecessary steps.

Virtual export to Azure
101858 Rapid Recovery 6.3 User Guide topic "Setting up continual export to Azure" has been modified. It contains no unnecessary steps. Virtual export to Azure
101853

In release 6.3 and later, to export a VM to Azure, you can use an existing container or (using Advanced storage options), you can define an export container or deployment container.

Virtual export to Azure
101837 Steps for creating a container in classic Azure Service Management mode for Azure were included in the Rapid Recovery 6.2 User Guide. Note that as of release 6.3, containers must be created using Azure Resource Management. Supportability

 

Table 4: Linux resolved issues

Issue ID Resolved Issue Description Functional Area
107966 Ubuntu 16 and 18 on Hyper-V hung when taking snapshots. Linux

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