You can now perform file-level browse and restore for Nutanix AHV VMs. This eliminates the need to perform the time-consuming disk or VM restores when you want to restore files or folders. For more information, see Restore virtual machine data.

Customer action required:To use this feature, you must deploy a new backup proxy of version 6.3.0-227659 or contact Support for assistance. For more information, see Deploy backup proxy and register Prism.

Druva now supports Long Term Support (LTS) releases for AOS version 6.5. For more information, see Support matrix.

Customer action required:You must upgrade the backup proxy to version 6.3.0-227659.

You can customize the table layout and choose to display the required information for the Administrative Groups, Administrators, Alerts, Analytics -> All BackupSets, Cost allocation, Credential Store, Manage Seeding Devices -> Configured Devices pages. You can make the following changes:

Customer action required:None.

Druva can now back up and restore virtual machines created and managed on Azure Stack HCI, a hyperconverged infrastructure operating system delivered as an Azure service. For more information, see System requirements for Hyper-V and About Phoenix for Hyper-V.

Customer action required:None.

Earlier, restoring a database to a different server was a manual and costly process in terms of storage, especially for databases on cloud virtual machines. You can now automatically restore your database to any alternate server other than the source. For more information, see Restore database to an alternate server.

Customer action required:Upgrade Oracle client to version 6.1.0.

You can now register your Oracle server using the common agent. Note that the installation command will require the absolute path. For more information, see Install the agent and register Oracle Server.

Customer action required:Upgrade Oracle client to version 6.1.0.

The agent runs activation and first backup readiness checks on your system and proactively identifies missing prerequisites which can cause your agent activation and first backups to fail. You can fix these errors to minimize the chances of agent activation and backup failures using the provided resolutions.
The following workloads support this feature:

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​ These checks are available for versions 6.2.0 and later for File Server, NAS, Hyper-V, and MS-SQL Server, and for versions 6.1.0 and later for Oracle DTC.

For more information, see Activation and first backup readiness checks for successful backup. Have more questions? Refer to the FAQs.

Customer action required:Add the HybridWorkloadsCheck binaries to the anti-virus exclusions. For more information refer to Avoiding third party/anti-virus interference with Hybrid Workloads Agent.

This release has minor bug fixes.

You can customize the table layout and choose to display the required information for all the Hyper-V, MS SQL, Oracle PBS, and Oracle DTC pages. In the following example, we will use the Customize Table Columns option on the All Jobs page for Hyper-V. You can make the following changes:

Customer action required:None.

Druva now provides the Load More option to display additional content in a particular folder during a restore. The Load More option is visible to load the next set of results in case of a large directory structure and enables you to restore a specific file and folder. For more information, see Restore to the File Server.

Customer action required:None.

Druva now enables you to back up your AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) via AWS Storage Gateway using a NAS proxy. For more information, see Druva support for Amazon Simple Storage Service.

Customer action required:None.

Regardless of where your VMware infrastructure resides, your data is comprehensively protected and always available with the Druva Cloud Platform. Druva is now certified with VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC 1.20. Note that Druva is certified with every new version of VMware Cloud on AWS that is released quarterly. For more information, see VMware compatibility guide.

Customer action required:None.

With the newly added response parameter, resourceID, in the List all backup jobs and List all restore jobs APIs, you can now correlate a resourceID with a specific job. For more information, see API Reference documentation on the Druva Developer Portal.

Customer action required:None.

Druva extends its backup and restore solution for protecting Oracle databases in Amazon RDS Custom environment. All you need to do is create a database instance for Amazon RDS Custom and install Hybrid Workloads agent for backup and restore. For more information, see Setting up Oracle database instance for Amazon RDS Custom.

Customer action required:None.

Scheduled log backup jobs will be skipped if the previous queued or running log backup jobs for the same backup set are not completed.

Customer action required:None.

In addition to authenticating RAC databases using wallet authentication, you can now use the OS and Oracle authentication types as well. For more information, see Manage Oracle databases and Configure Oracle databases for backup.

Customer action required:None.

You can customize the table layout and choose to display the required information for all the VMware, Disaster Recovery, NAS, and File Servers pages. In the following example, we will use the Customize Table Columns option on the All Jobs page for VMware. You can make the following changes:

Customer action required:None.

Druva now sends a Warning alert with details of the backup jobs that are skipped from execution. A backup job is skipped from execution if the client is busy processing other jobs. With this release, alert notifications are sent for backup jobs for the VMware and File Server workloads. This feature will be supported for the other workloads in the following release.

Customer action required:None.

Druva can now back up and restore virtual machines created and managed on Azure VMware Solution (AVS), a dedicated cloud infrastructure in Azure. Therefore, you can back up from any VMware cloud or on-premise setup to any other VMware setup like a true SaaS. For more information, see Druva and Azure VMware Solution.

Customer action required:None.

You can now perform the file-level browse and restore for dynamic GUID (Global Unique Identifier) Partition Table (GPT) disks in VMware Windows backup sets with the help of a staging VM. A staging VM can be another Windows VM present in your environment. This eliminates the need to perform time-consuming disk restores when you want to restore a single file. For more information, see Restore virtual machine data.

Customer action required:Upgrade the proxy version to 6.1.1. You must also deploy a staging VM in your environment. For more information about the prerequisites for using a staging VM, see Required prerequisites for File Level Restores (FLR).

You can list all snapshots for a specific backup set by using the List all snapshots API. Additionally, you can restore a VM automatically to the original location by using the Full VM restore to original API.
For more information, see API reference documentation on the Druva developer portal.

Customer action required:Get the snapshot name by using the List all snapshots API. Pass this snapshot name to the FullVM restore to original API.

We have enhanced the list of AWS and VMware guest OS checks. The DR failback checks now verify whether the:

For more information, see DR Failback checks.

Customer action required:Upgrade the VMware backup proxy to version 6.1.1.

Segregate your virtual machines in different backup proxy pools by creating new backup proxy pools for your geographic regions and mapping your virtual machines to these proxy pools. You can also edit and delete your backup proxy pools. Backup proxy pools eliminate the need to manually map the virtual machines to an individual backup proxy. In addition, all the successfully registered backup proxies irrespective on which prism it has been registered are displayed in a common All Backup Proxies page under Protect > Nutanix AHV on the Management Console. For more information, see Create backup proxy pool, Manage backup proxy pool, and Display all backup proxies and proxy pools in a common location.

Customer action required:None.

Incremental backup performance is significantly improved with Advanced Smart Scan, which reduces network round trips and API call latencies. This reduces the overall time consumed during a scan, thereby decreasing the incremental backup job's time. For more information, see Creating a backup policy and NAS Scanning methods.

Customer action required:Upgrade agent to version 6.1.1.

Use the Restore To Original Instance API to perform a restore for the given SQL server databases to the original location (with Replace). The following APIs provide additional information to the Restore To Original Instance API.

For more information, see API reference documentation on the Druva developer portal.

Customer action required:None.

The backup set status representation present on the global dashboard and organization dashboard is more granular and informative.
The job backup status will display all backup sets of a workload excluding the disabled backup sets. The following workloads are supported:

Customer action required:None.

Regardless of where your VMware infrastructure resides, your data is comprehensively protected and always available with the Druva Cloud Platform. Druva is now certified with VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC 1.19. Note that Druva is certified with every new version of VMware Cloud on AWS that is released quarterly. For more information, see VMware compatibility guide.

Customer action required:None.

Druva can now back up and restore virtual machines created and managed by Hyper-V on Windows Server 2022. For more information on the certified versions, see System requirements for Hyper-V.

Customer action required: Install the latest Hybrid Workloads agent on the Hyper-V host on Windows Server 2022.

You can deploy your Nutanix backup proxy using the common agent user interface. This user interface provides intuitive workflows where you can add the Prism details, network details, and activation token required to deploy and activate the Nutanix AHV backup proxy. For more information, see Remote deployment tool.

Customer action required:Upgrade Nutanix AHV proxy to version 6.1.0-166305.

Long-term retention enables you to maintain the data you deem suitable for a longer duration with cost-effectiveness. You can set the warm snapshots threshold limit to the required snapshots. After the threshold, the snapshots will automatically transition from the Warm tier to the Cold tier. This feature is available only to Enterprise and Elite customers by default. For more information, see About Long term retention.

Customer action required:None.

If your network infrastructure uses a Web proxy, you can configure the Phoenix agent to use a Web proxy to establish a connection with the Druva Cloud. For more information, refer to Configure Web proxy.

Customer action required:None.

Protect your data from accidental or malicious deletions done by a rogue administrator and anyone with compromised credentials with our Data Lock feature. You can enable Data Lock in your backup policies to make your backup sets and snapshots immutable till their retention period. By default, this feature is available only to Enterprise and Elite customers. The following workloads support Data Lock feature:

For more information, see Data Lock. Have more questions? Refer to the Data Lock FAQs.

Customer action required:None.

We have enhanced our software delivery model to perform maintenance activities like cloud releases region-by-region so that the impact on your business is minimal. To support this enhanced software deployment model, we have introduced a global Druva discovery service. All your workload agents will now connect to this discovery service and help us intelligently change to a region and geography-specific software deployment. You are required to update your organization's firewall configuration to avoid any disruption to your backup and restore activities.

Customer action required:You must add the following URLs to the allowed list of the SSL communication before activating the agent.

With the redesigned All Jobs pages for VMware, Nutanix AHV, and NAS, you can now easily:

These actions are also available on the Backup Policies page for NAS and the All Databases page for Oracle DTC.

Customer action required:None.

We are adding resourceID in the response parameter of the List All Jobs APIs. Using this resourceID parameter, you can now correlate the job with the respective resourceID. For more information, see the List all jobs API on the Druva Developer Portal.

Customer action required: None.

We are adding agID in the request and response parameters of the List All Availability Groups API. Using the agID that is specified, you can now list only the required availability group. If you do not provide an agID, the API returns all availability groups.
For more information, see the List all SQL availability groups API on the Druva Developer Portal.

Customer action required: None.

You can now use Druva APIs to run on-demand (manual) backups of the specified File Servers and cancel requested File Server jobs. Here are the API capabilities:

For more information, see API reference documentation on the Druva developer portal.

Customer action required:None.

Druva enhances its backup solution to support Oracle RAC databases, wherein you can securely protect databases running across multiple instances (nodes). This allows you to achieve high resiliency in mission-critical applications. For more information, see About backup and restore of Oracle RAC databases.

Customer action required: Upgrade Oracle DTC agent to version 6.0.0-179689.

You can list all snapshots for a specific backup set by using the List all snapshots API. Additionally, you can restore a database automatically to the original server by using the Full database restore to original API. For more information, see API reference documentation on the Druva developer portal.

Customer action required: Get the snapshot name by using the List all snapshots API. Pass this snapshot name to the Full database restore to original API.

Earlier, the API endpoints for the Oracle PBS jobs, such as List all backup jobs, List all restore jobs, and so on, did not have backup set ID and backup set mount names. This made it difficult to correlate the job with the respective backup set.

To fix this, we are now passing some additional response parameters to the APIs.

For more information, see Oracle PBS APIs.

Customer action required: None.

The DR failback checks now include environmental and guest OS checks. These checks look for connectivity issues between your AWS account and your VMware environment and also check guest OS issues that could cause your DR failback jobs to fail. Fix any identified issues, and then run DR failback jobs. For more information, see DR Failback Checks.

Customer action required: Upgrade the VMware backup proxy to version 6.0.4-179682 and Phoenix AWS Proxy to 6.0.4-180374 or later.

You can now backup and restore virtual machines with NVMe disks or controllers using the HotAdd transport mode by deploying the latest backup proxy. The backup of virtual machines with NVMe disks or controllers falls back to the NBDSSL mode if the VMware backup proxy does not have an NVMe controller.

Customer action required:Deploy a new proxy using the First Proxy Deployer application. For more information, see Other considerations for configuring VMware for backup.

Druva now supports a new application process to collect the agent telemetry to improve customer experience and monitor application health, quality, and performance.

Customer action required:For the Windows server, upgrade the agent to version 6.0.3-170463, and for the Linux server, upgrade the agent to version 6.0.3-172099. For more information, see Firewall rules for NAS and Avoiding third-party/anti-virus interference with Hybrid Workloads Agent.​​​

Regardless of where your VMware infrastructure resides, your data is comprehensively protected and always available with the Druva Cloud Platform. Druva is now certified with VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC 1.18. Note that Druva is certified with every new version of VMware Cloud on AWS that is released quarterly. For more information, see VMware compatibility guide.

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​ DR failback jobs fail when Linux VMs are failed back to VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC 1.18.

Customer action required:None.

You can generate audit trails for different API credential operations, such as create, update, and delete. These audit trails allow you to track the changes in the API credentials performed by the different administrators.

Customer action required: None.

The activation token now has a new format. Existing active tokens on the Manage Activation Tokens page will be automatically changed to this new format.

Customer action required:None.

Druva will no longer support t2.micro and t2.small instance types for DR failovers. These instances will automatically be upgraded to t2.medium if you run a DR failover without changing the instance type manually. For more information, see DRaaS support matrix.

Customer action required: Change the instance type to t2.medium or higher for VMs using t2.micro or t2.small instance types in failover settings.

Are older job logs of backup sets consuming storage space on your File Server? Does it take long to delete job logs from File Server automatically due to a greater default threshold value?
You can now use the OLDER_LOGS_DELETION_AGE parameter in the configuration file to set the threshold value of your choice for deleting older job logs, thereby saving space on the File Server. The default value is 180 days. The minimum allowed value is 1 day. For more information on configuration file and its location, see Phoenix agent logs and configuration details.

Customer action required:Upgrade the agent to version 6.0.1-162127.

Are older job logs of backup sets consuming storage space on your NAS proxy? Does it take long to delete job logs from NAS proxy automatically due to a greater default threshold value?
You can now use the OLDER_LOGS_DELETION_AGE parameter in the configuration file to set the threshold value of your choice for deleting older job logs, thereby saving space on the NAS proxy. The default value is 180 days. The minimum allowed value is 1 day. For more information on the configuration file and its location, see NAS proxy logs and configuration details.

Customer action required:Upgrade the agent to version 6.0.1-162127.

You can now protect Azure Files through SMB and NFS protocols via a NAS proxy. However, auto-discovery of shares is not supported as of now. For more information, see Add a NAS share.

Customer action required:None.​​​

Druva supports all Long Term Support (LTS) and Short Term Support (STS) releases for AOS version 5.15 to AOS version 6.0. For more information, see Support matrix.

Customer action required:None.

You can now use Druva APIs to run on-demand (manual) backups of MS SQL Server databases and cancel requested MS SQL Server jobs. Here are the API capabilities:

For more information, see API reference documentation on the Druva developer portal.

Customer action required:None.

While using the Replace Original Database option on the Restore Settings page, if you want to restore a database whose files are at location, C:\Data\DB.mdf, this file is renamed ( DB_org.mdf ) while the version you want to restore is saved with the same name ( DB.mdf ). However, the subsequent restore leads to additional copies of the renamed files ( DB_org.mdf ) and keeps increasing space on the database. Druva Phoenix now automatically deletes the renamed copies of the original file if a restore is successful. For more information, see Restore SQL server databases using snapshots.

Customer action required:Upgrade the agent to version 6.0.1-154928 or later.

In addition to manual restore, you can now automatically restore the backed-up standby database either to a standby or primary database.

Customer action required:Upgrade Oracle DTC agent to version 5.1.0-164651.

You can now protect your Nutanix AHV virtual machines in all the storage regions supported by Hybrid Workloads (Phoenix). The table below lists all the supported storage regions.

Customer action required: None

You can now use Druva APIs to run on-demand (manual) backups of a specified NAS device and cancel requested NAS jobs. Here are the API capabilities:

For more information, see API reference documentation on the Druva developer portal.

Customer action required:None.

An alert is now generated for scheduled backups, if a NAS proxy is not connected for more than 7 days. For more information, see Types of alerts.

Customer action required:None.

You can now protect Nutanix Files through SMB and NFS protocols via a NAS proxy. For more information, see Add a NAS share.

Customer action required:None.​​​​​

You can now run failback checks before initiating a production DR failback job. These checks validate your AWS and VMware environment for any issues that can cause your production DR failback jobs to fail. Fix any identified issues, and then run DR failback jobs. For more information, see DR Failover Checks.

Customer action required:Upgrade the VMware backup proxy to version 6.0.1-155040 and Phoenix AWS proxy to version 6.0.1-154932.

You can back up your Oracle databases to local storage that is configured as CloudCache to meet demanding RTOs, say in a remote office with limited WAN. The CloudCache periodically synchronizes this data to Druva Cloud. For more information, see Configure Oracle server for backup.

Customer action required: Upgrade Oracle agent to version 5.1.0-155897.

You can now cancel a job by using the Cancel job API. The Cancel job API cancels the requested Backup, Restore, or Upload Log job. For more information, see API reference documentation on the Druva developer portal.

Customer action required: None.

You can now protect your business-critical backup sets, virtual machines, backup mounts, and configured databases from any accidental or malicious deletion. You must provide a reason to confirm the delete action. Such delete actions are logged and can be viewed on the Audit Trails page. For more information, see File Servers, NAS, VMware, Hyper-V, MS SQL, Oracle PBS, Oracle DTC, and Nutanix AHV.

Customer action required: None

You can now leverage AWS PrivateLink for communication between your File Servers, NAS, Oracle DTC, or MS SQL servers deployed as EC2 instances and Druva Cloud. AWS PrivateLink ensures that the traffic between your servers and Druva Cloud isn't exposed to the public internet.

Customer action required: None

Using the common Hybrid Workloads agent, you can now install the agent and activate it for different workloads on a Windows or Linux server, thereby saving time for installing and activating the agent individually for each workload. You can protect the following workloads using the common agent:

For more information, see Common agent installation and activation.

Customer action required:Upgrade the common agent for File Servers, MS SQL, NAS, and Hyper-V to version 6.0.1-154928.

The oracle_rman_backup.sh script is deprecated and should no longer be used. For full and archive log backup, use the oracle_rman_data_backup.sh and the oracle_rman_archivelog_backup.sh script, respectively.

We now support the following storage regions for Nutanix AHV deployments:

Protect your Nutanix AHV virtual machines in these and other supported regions using Hybrid Workloads (Phoenix). For more information, see Supported storage regions.

Customer action required: None

You can now protect your Nutanix AHV virtual machines managed by Prism Elements and Prism Centrals. Deploy the backup proxy virtual machine in Prism and configure your virtual machines for backup. You can restore the full virtual machine and vDisks. For more information, see Backup and Restore Nutanix AHV.

Customer action required:Contact your Account Manager or Support.

File Server restores now include pre-checks to identify issues that can cause the restore to fail. These checks look for disconnected agents, insufficient folder path permission, or environmental issues and list them on the Restore Pre-checks dialog. You can take prompt remedial action before running the restore. For more information, see File Servers restore pre-checks.

Customer action required:Upgrade agent to version 6.0.0-147944 to run pre-checks.

The default content rule now excludes database, backup, and disk image file types from backups. As a result, these huge files are automatically ignored during backups and result in low credit consumption. For more information, see Manage content rules in File Servers.

Customer action required:None.

Druva Phoenix now uploads job logs to the cloud when the backup and restore jobs complete successfully. When administrators request detailed logs from the Phoenix Management Console, Druva Phoenix triggers a Log Request job and downloads logs from the cloud instead of the requested server. When the backup or the restore job is in progress, logs from the corresponding server are fetched.

Customer action required:Upgrade File Servers agent to version 6.0.0-147944.

Windows Server 2022 (64-bit) for backup and restore is now supported. For more information, see System requirements for files and folders.

Customer action required:None.

NAS device restores now include pre-checks to identify issues that can cause the restore to fail. These checks look for disconnected agents, proxy connections, or mount issues and list them on the Restore Pre-checks dialog. You can take prompt remedial action before running the restore. For more information, see NAS restore pre-checks.

Customer action required:Upgrade agent to version 6.0.0-147944 to run pre-checks.

The default content rule now excludes database, backup, and disk image file types from backups. As a result, these huge files are automatically ignored during backups and result in low credit consumption. For more information, see Manage content rules in NAS.

Customer action required:None.

Druva Phoenix now uploads job logs to the cloud when the backup and restore jobs successfully complete. When administrators request detailed logs from the Phoenix Management Console, Druva Phoenix triggers a Log Request job and downloads logs from the cloud instead of the requested NAS device. When the backup or the restore job is in progress, logs from the corresponding NAS device are fetched.

Customer action required:Upgrade NAS agent to version 6.0.0-147944.

Druva Phoenix now also supports Windows Server 2022 (64-bit) for backup and restore. For more information, see System requirements for NAS proxy.

Customer action required:None.

You can now use Druva APIs to run on-demand (manual) backups of a specified VMware virtual machine and cancel requested VMware jobs. Here are the API capabilities:

For more information, see API reference documentation on the Druva Developer Portal.

Customer action required:None.

You can use an NVMe controller from ESXi 6.5 and VM hardware version 13. If you want to restore VMs with NVMe controllers or disks from older snapshots, you must manually add ENABLE_NVME_CONVERSION = True parameter in the Phoenix.cfg file on the VMware backup proxy. For more information, see Restore full virtual machine.

Customer action required:Update the VMware backup proxy to version 6.0.0 -147290.

You can now use a more secure key-based authentication for your Linux-based VMs, wherein you can avoid using passwords for security reasons to authenticate a VM during DR failover checks- Guest OS. The key-based authentication involves creating a key pair (public and private) and copying it to all your Linux-based VMs. For more information, see the “Assign key-based authentication for your Linux based virtual machine” section in DR failover checks - Guest OS.

Customer action required:Update the VMware backup proxy to version 6.0.0 -147290.

You can now use the On-demand backup API to run on-demand (manual) full, incremental, and archive log backups of Oracle databases. For more information, see API reference documentation on the Druva Developer Portal and Oracle DTC Archive log backups.

Customer action required: None

The user interface for CloudCache is now more straightforward and intuitive. You can now accomplish tasks such as adding and configuring CloudCache devices with ease. In addition, attaching and detaching backup sets from CloudCache is now simpler.

Customer action required: None

For release notes of previous cloud updates, see the following articles: