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
