Rubrik 4.0 has release and I want to give an overview of the new features. Rubrik continues to develop and is meeting my expectations as a great Backup technology!!

Hyper-V Support

The following options are available for Hyper-V 2016 with Native API (WMI) Support

• Auto Protect
• Failover Cluster Support
• Agentless backups
• Incremental Forever
• Live Mount
• Instant Recovery
• Search

The following options are available for Hyper-V version below 2016 with Connectors based support

• Incremental Forever
• Search

Nutanix AHV Support

• Automated protection and restore workflow
• Securely replicate or archive to other sites
• Rubrik Core Capabilities – global search, erasure coding, reporting
• Scale as you need
• Pick your hypervisor: Acropolis, ESXi or Hyper-V

Oracle Support

• Rusbrik Cluster is now a NAS target for Oracle RMAN with an agentless approach.
• RMAN manages Backup and Restore for DB and Redo logs. Support for Incremental Merge –advanced RMAN feature.
• Multi-channel support, ingest to flash for fast backup/ingest.
• Recovery and DR through RMAN

Cloud Instantiation

• Enables customers to power-on snapshot of a VM on the cloud
• Instance type recommendation based on VM config file
• 2-click deployment and end-to-end orchestration
• UI Integration to launch, power off or de-provision an instance

SQL Server Live Mount

• Power on read/write clones instantaneously
• Provision a clone to any desired Point in Time
• Mount same database across multiple hosts
• RestAPI’sallow to automate workflows
• Self Service using RBAC

Archive to Tape

• Uses QStar to expose tape library as NFS/SMB share
• Each Tape vendor has their proprietary interface
• QStar presents a common interface irrespective of tape vendor
• Supports Industry Standard LTFS format

Other Feature add

• NFS Archive Encryption
• Custom TLS Certificate – Web UI