What's new in Backup Exec 21.2
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Table: What's new in Backup Exec 21.2
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Instance-based Licensing v2 | The Instance-based licensing model in Backup Exec is enhanced to display the details for instances considered in calculations. |
| Based on the configured threshold, warning alerts are displayed when the instances used approach the number of instances licensed in Backup Exec. | |
| Backup Exec Accelerator v2 | Customers can now experience significantly faster Forever Incremental backups to deduplication storage. The Backup Exec Deduplication Block Cloning technology is used when Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines are backed up to Backup Exec deduplication disk storage. |
| Support for SQL Server In-Memory OLTP (Optimization) | Support for Microsoft SQL Server In-Memory optimized tables. |
| Enhanced cloud-based and on-premises in-product help | Customers can now experience a whole new way to access the Backup Exec help system. Backup Exec 21.2 gives you access to a cloud-based HTML help system and also an on-premises HTML help system. By default, you have access to the cloud-based help. |
| The new help system offers the following: | |
| - Better search capability | |
| - Modern look and feel | |
| - Accessibility from cloud | |
| - Multi-browser support | |
| Support for new cloud storage regions | Backup Exec users benefit from cloud storage choices through support for the following cloud storage region, enabling greater flexibility and economy\: |
| - Google: Jakarta | |
| Review the Backup Exec Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) for supported cloud storage regions. You can find the HCL at the following URL: | |
| http://www.veritas.com/docs/000017788 | |
| Agent for Linux | The Agent for Linux now supports Advanced Open File Option (AOFO-L) with RHEL 7.8, 8.2, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4. |
You can find a list of the new features in earlier releases of Backup Exec in the What's new in Backup Exec document.