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We are pleased to announce a new update for the Cristie Virtual Appliance. The 4.6.1 release includes lots of new functionality and bug fixes which bring with it a wealth of benefits.

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Headline Enhancements

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• You can now add AIX backups into recovery, simulation and DR Orchestration jobs.

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• You can now perform recoveries and simulations of AIX and Linux on Power backups to IBM’s Hardware Management Console for Power Systems™.

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• Hyper-V 2022 is now a supported target hypervisor environment for recoveries, simulations & replications.

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• Nutanix AHV is now a supported target hypervisor environment for recoveries, simulations & replications.

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• You can now perform backups, recoveries, replications & simulations of Linux, AIX and Solaris systems using an SSH key instead of a password.

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• You can now configure Rsyslog in advanced options.

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• Windows targets can now automatically reboot and attach the Windows ISO as part of an upgrade operation.

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• Windows Server 2022 is now a supported target with Windows upgrades.

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• You can now specify post install scripts when deploying software through Estate Management.

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• You can now opt to enable/disable insecure SSL/TLS versions, as well as specify a custom SSL certificate as part of custom ISO creation.

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• You can now specify to create E1000 NICs when creating vSphere targets.

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• You can now recover CoBMR backups when the Cohesity server has DoD mode enabled.

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• You can now see the VA signature without opening the licensing wizard.

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• You can now change the log levels of all services through advanced options.

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• You can now specify a network group for an OCI target machine.

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• Failed software deployment to Windows targets now automatically pull the install log from the %tmp% directory.

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• Kube management performance and reliability enhancements.

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Bug Fixes

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• OCI discovery was slow on some large tenancies.

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• CloneManager Offline replications to OCI would sometimes fail for multi disk Windows systems.

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• Replication bundle would fail to import with missing dependencies.

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• The option to specify thick or thin disks for vSphere targets was hidden.

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• The replicate window would sometimes be blank when trying to replicate to a pre-booted replication target.

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• VM creation would sometimes fail with the message VVTD should always be enabled for VCPU count > 128.

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• Adding active directory groups would not always import all users.

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• Importing active directory with a long name would fail.

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• Kube Management tickboxes would deselect on screen refresh.

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• Manual proxy configuration would leave one proxy in the database if validation failed for the second proxy.

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• Hypervisor refresh would not always show the hypervisor name in the event.

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• Upgrade Management would not update instantly to show a machine was validating.

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• AIX backups would sometimes not update following a completed backup.

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• Offsite replication (for Protect for VMs) screen would not allow you to save.

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Useful Forum Posts

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• How do I upgrade a Windows system as part of a replication job?

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• Enabling/disabling features

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• Enabling/disabling features from the terminal

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• Appliance offline upgrade

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