During the event “Discover” HP announced the newest version of Data Protector – 8.00. The main approach is scalability for HP’s latest version of backup and recovery software. More than thousand clients can be protected by Data Protector, up to 1000 sessions can run concurrently, up to 100000 sessions per day – in a single cell environment. When using the Manager-of-Manager feature up to 5000 clients can be protected and up to 2.5 billions media can be managed with HP Data Protector. With this and other enhancements the software scales over 100x better than the competition. Of course all the successful established technologies, as federated deduplication using StoreOnce and many other new features are included within the new version. Data Protector 8.00 can be downloaded from HP website, it is available on http://www.hp.com/go/dataprotector
Unfortutantly the ProductAnnouncement stated that
“Virtual full backup is only supported for filesystem data. Data Protector integrations do not
support the functionality”
Being able to do synthetic full backup on vmware backups is greatly needed. do you have any insight if its on the roadmap in the nearest future?
Hi Dennis,
Not seen this feature on any roadmap. You may raise an enhancement request.
Best regards
Daniel
Is there an upgrade path from DP 6.2 straight to DP 8? I tried to get the Installation Guide but couldn’t find the link. Thanks.
Hi Mark,
yes, you can directly upgrade your 6.X Version to DP 8, at least you need to make sure that (in case of Windows), you are running on W2K8 64Bit or Windows 2012.
Best regards
Daniel
The new IDB database Backup requires its own on-line extension license on remote cell managers.
Hi,
this is a bug in current version and will be fixed with the first available patch.
Best regards
Daniel
Daniel,
I”ve upgraded an 6.11 CM to 8.00 and now its wants an on-line extension lic; just a local backup on the CM of its IDB, this is the problem you are mentioning ?
Stefan.
Hi Stefan,
yes, this is one of the problems… You may ask HP to get an emergency license until the problem has been fixed.
Best regards
Daniel
Anyone evaluating it right now? Have a test server, trying to figure out how to setup storeonce for dedup. Docuementation is not really clear on how to setup the stores. Will have a scsi san in about a month but would like to test with the server’s local storage.
Hi
Somebody knows why is not possible to choice the option \\\”advanced scheduler\\\” (Back Specifications) ?
TIA
jago
Hi Jago,
the Advanced Scheduler” was not enabled in final release, as it was not ready until the release in summer. Some parts, like Copy Jobs, etc. were not finished. I’m pretty sure it will be enabled in December release.
Best regards
Daniel
Hi Guys,
I would like to install a fresh copy of Data protector 8 but when I start setup process I can not see the cell manage option.
It is missing.I downloaded the new iso (3.2Gb ) file from hp site.I can see the cell manager option If I use the Data Protector 6.11 setup file.Has anyone have an opinion about this weird process.
Regards
Emre
Hi Emre,
not sure what you mean with manage. Can you please share a screenshot?
Best regards
Daniel