We are pleased to announce a new update for the Cristie Virtual Appliance. The 4.7.1 release includes lots of new functionality and bug fixes which bring with it a wealth of benefits.
Headline Enhancements
- Ransomware detection – a new feature that monitors systems through Estate Management for the presence of ransomware. To benefit from this protection, ensure your Cristie agents are updated to version 9.5.1 or higher.
- Changed block tracking for CloneManager Offline – You can now enable continuous replication of changed blocks through CloneManager Offline for Windows. Changed block tracking reduces RPO significantly, better protecting your data and making sure losses remain minimal.
- You can now schedule Estate Management operations to take place at a later date.
- You can now run custom scripts before/after an OS upgrade.
- DataDomain support for Avamar & NetWorker recoveries.
- Retryable events – You can now retry certain failed events.
- Cohesity MFA support.
- Advanced networ configuration for custom ISOs – You can now specify network settings per MAC address when creating a custom ISO within Boot Management.
- You can now specify DHCP mappings for targets within Boot Management.
- You can now create Replication Sandbox VMs in Azure.
- The VA will now run a daily health check and output results to a va_health.log
- Creating VMs is now faster for CloneManager Offline replications to AWS.
- Post recovery checks are now available for AIX systems.
- Reduced the initialization time between hitting run, and a CloneManager Online operation starting.
- You can now disable automatic update checking.
- You can now cancel a wider range of tasks.
- Added GUI options for configuring network and resizing disks.
- Support tools are now easier. Allowing you to select from dropdowns to populate tests for specific operations, instead of just a freeform port number input.
Bug Fixes
- Target network adapters would sometimes be created out of order.
- Selecting the boot disk manually would not propagate through to the recovery environment.
- Windows DR environments couldn’t be configured with multiple static IP addresses.
- MAC addresses couldn’t be determined on some Windows systems with Asian language packs.
- When using SSH keys for authentication, the VA wasn’t rejecting OpenSSH keys with a valid error message.
- NFS share permissions on the VA have been reduced for security improvements.
- Updating clustered appliances could sometimes fail to bring up the services on the secondary node.
- Browser errors around self-signed certificates weren’t being handled gracefully.
- Discovering Avamar servers that had nested domains would fail.
- Group permissions weren’t being updated correctly for imported LDAP groups.
- Protect for VMs trial tokens sometimes couldn’t be imported.
- Estate Management search bar would sometimes not filter correctly.
- Linux replications of EFI systems to EFI systems would sometimes incorrectly attempt to convert the target system to BIOS boot type.
- OS upgrades would not check for sufficient space on the target system.
- Fixed an issue with blank codes showing in the return license screen.
- It was previously possible to provide an LPAR name that was too long for the HMC.
- Creating a reusable block in Orchestration would sometimes fail.
- Custom ISO dropdown wouldn’t always show in the Replication Sandbox options.
