HP Data Protector 9.00 Product Announcements, Software Notes, and References

120 Pages·2014·1.37 MB·English

HP Data Protector
Software Version: 9.00
Product Announcements, Software Notes, and
References
Document Release Date: June 2014
Software Release Date: June 2014
ProductAnnouncements,SoftwareNotes,andReferences
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Contents 3
Chapter 1: Announcements 11
Upgrades 11
What is supported? 11
Licensing 12
Support for earlier agent versions 12
Updated information 13
Chapter 2: Product features and benefits 14
Non-staged recovery 14
Smart Cache device 14
Support for StoreOnce Federated Catalyst 14
New menu item under the help menu 15
Chapter 3: Limitations and recommendations 16
Limitations 16
Scalability limitations 16
Backup infrastructure scalability 16
Internal Database scalability 16
Concurrency limitations 17
Prerequisites for increasing the limit on concurrent backup sessions 18
Enhanced incremental backup 19
Size of file depots used for file library 19
Installation limitations 20
Upgrade limitations 20
Migration limitations 20
Platform limitations 20
UNIX and Linux limitations 20
HP-UX limitations 21
Solaris limitations 21
Linux limitations 22
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Mac OS X limitations 22
Windows limitations 22
Windows 32-bit limitations 23
Windows 64-bit limitations 24
Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 limitations 24
Windows Server 2012 limitations 24
Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) limitations 25
HP OpenVMS limitations 25
Limitations on clusters 28
HP Serviceguard limitations 28
Limitations on licensing 28
General licensing limitations 28
License upgrading limitations 29
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) networking limitations 29
Limitations on license reporting in a traditional licensing model 29
Limitations on encryption 30
Limitations on data encryption 30
Limitations on encrypted control communication 30
Limitations on Data Protector MoM environments 30
Device and media limitations 30
NDMP limitations 31
NetApp filer 32
Celerra 33
Limitations on enhanced incremental backups 33
Limitations on virtual full backups 33
Limitations on object verification 34
General functionality limitations 34
Application integration limitations 34
Limitations on application integrations 34
General limitations 34
Oracle limitations 34
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SAP R/3 limitations 35
Informix Server limitations 35
Microsoft SQL Server limitations 35
Microsoft Exchange Server limitations 35
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service limitations 36
Common VSS limitations 36
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 36
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 36
Microsoft SQL Writer 36
Data Protector Virtual Environment integration limitations 36
VMware limitations 36
Lotus limitations 37
Limitations on disk array integrations 37
HP P4000 SAN Solutions limitations 37
HP P6000 EVA Disk Array Family limitations 37
HP P9000 XP Disk Array Family limitations 39
HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage limitations 40
EMC Symmetrix disk array limitations 40
Disaster recovery limitations 41
User interface limitations 41
Reporting limitations 41
Other limitations 42
Recommendations 45
Organizing Data Protector clients into cells 45
Support for NIS+ 45
Large file support 46
Enhanced incremental backup 46
Object consolidation 46
Microsoft Exchange Single Mailbox integration 46
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service integration 47
Shadow copy storage area and disk space recommendations 47
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Regular maintenance of the VSS part of the registry 47
Network Data Management Protocol Server integration 47
Windows Server 2008 clients 47
Windows Server 2012 clients 48
UNIX system clients 49
Chapter 4: Recognized issues and workarounds 50
Known Data Protector issues and workarounds 50
Installation and upgrade related issues 50
User interface related issues 53
Disk Agent related issues 54
Media Agent related issues 57
Integration related issues 60
Common issues 60
Microsoft Exchange Server 60
Microsoft Exchange Single Mailbox 61
Microsoft SQL Server 61
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service 62
SAP R/3 62
Oracle Server 63
VMware vSphere 64
Lotus Notes 66
Disk array integrations 67
Granular Recovery Extension issues 67
VMware vSphere 67
Microsoft SharePoint Server 68
Disaster recovery issues 68
Cluster related issues 69
Common issues 69
Issues in HP Serviceguard 70
Issues in Microsoft Cluster Server 71
Reporting related issues 71
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Other known issues 71
Known non-Data Protector issues and workarounds 78
Non-Data Protector issues related to installation or upgrade 78
Non-Data Protector issues related to user interface 79
Non-Data Protector issues related to Disk Agent 80
Non-Data Protector issues related to Media Agent 81
Non-Data Protector issues related to integrations 82
Microsoft Exchange Server 82
Microsoft SQL Server 83
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service 83
Microsoft SharePoint Server 85
SAP MaxDB 86
SAP HANA Appliance 86
Oracle Server 87
VMware 88
Data Protector Virtual Environment integration 88
Sybase Server 89
Disk array integrations 89
Non-Data Protector issues related to Granular Recovery Extensions 92
VMware vSphere 92
Microsoft Exchange Server 93
Non-Data Protector issues related to disaster recovery 93
Non-Data Protector issues related to reporting 93
Other known non-Data Protector issues 95
Chapter 5: Installation requirements 98
Cell Manager requirements 98
On systems running HP-UX 98
On systems running Linux 99
On systems running Windows 100
Installation Server requirements 100
On systems running HP-UX 100
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On systems running Linux 101
On systems running Windows 101
Client system requirements 101
On systems running UNIX 101
HP-UX systems 102
Solaris systems 102
Linux systems 102
Mac OS X systems 103
On systems running Windows 103
Newer Windows operating systems and service packs 104
Java web reporting requirements 104
Local client installation 104
Upgrade 105
Requirements for viewing Data Protector documentation 105
Requirements for Data Protector services on Windows systems 106
Files installed in the %SystemRoot%\system32 folder 107
Chapter 6: Required patches 108
Windows system patches required by Data Protector 108
HP-UX system patches required by Data Protector 108
HP-UX 11.11 108
HP-UX 11.23 109
HP-UX 11.31 109
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server system patches required by Data Protector 110
Red Hat Enterprise Linux system patches required by Data Protector 110
Chapter 7: Data Protector documentation 111
Documentation map 111
Abbreviations 112
Integrations 116
Localized documentation 118
We appreciate your feedback! 119
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Publication history
Version Date Description
1.0 January 2014 Initial revision
1.0.1 January 2014 Updated revision published on
the Web
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