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July 2017
NetWorker 9.2.x Recommendations, Training and
Downloads for Customers and Partners
IMPORTANT! BEFORE YOU START!
NetWorker 9.2.x provides new features and improvements for Virtualization, Application, Cloud
support, Licensing, Ease-of-Use/Security and Cloning over previous NetWorker 9.x versions. See
NetWorker 9.2.x Release materials for more information.
As NetWorker 9.x is significantly different from NetWorker versions prior to 9.x, DELL EMC highly
recommends that customers take advantage of Upgrade services (either custom or one of the standard
offerings) provided by DELL EMC Professional Services and DELL EMC Partners.

The current cumulative hotfix is 9.2.1.3 Build 215. The cumulative hotfix was released May 24, 2018.

NetWorker 9.2.1.2 declared TARGET CODE. Evaluation of later NetWorker releases is underway.
Customers should consider the additional fixes available in later cumulatives when determining
the most appropriate release for their environment.

Customers who have been successful with installing, upgrading, and configuring NetWorker 9.x have engaged
DELL EMC Professional Services and/or used the available free training. If unprepared, you might encounter
issues including backup failures during and after upgrading from earlier NetWorker releases.

To request DELL EMC Professional Services, contact a DELL EMC Sales representative. (1-866-GET-EMC2) For
more information about available services, go to the DELL EMC Service Offering Index and search for NetWorker
(select Filter > N > NetWorker).

TRAINING and RESOURCES

NetWorker 9.x Technical Differences eLearning courses. NetWorker 9.2 Updating to NetWorker 9.2 from a Previous
(Additional Instructor led training with hands-on lab NetWorker Release Guide
experience is also available) NetWorker Release 9.2.x Documentation Portfolio
NEW NetWorker Upgrade Learning Center. Education o NetWorker 9.2 Virtual Edition Deployment Guide
has developed a new offering to assist customers with o NetWorker 9.2.x VMware Integration Guide
upgrading NetWorker from NetWorker 8.2.x to o Various NetWorker 9.2 product integration guides
NetWorker 9.1.x. Bundling discounts are available. o NetWorker 9.2 Performance Optimization Planning
Differences between NetWorker 9.2 and previous Guide
releases o Various other documents included in this
Documentation Portfolio.
NetWorker and Modules 9.2.x Release Notes Portfolio NetWorker VIDEO’S: DELL EMC Community Network,
NetWorker YouTube

NetWorker Licensing: NetWorker Compatibility information

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o NetWorker 9.2 has extended the free-trial period NetWorker Cumulative releases:
without the need or licensing for 90-days NetWorker 9.2.1.2 declared TARGET CODE.
o Licensing in NetWorker 9 and 9.1 for new See the appropriate NetWorker 9.2.x Cumulative Hotfixes
installations (VIDEO) document (when available) in the Recommended section on
o NetWorker 9.2 Licensing Guide the NetWorker Downloads or appropriate Modules pages.
Downloads page.

KEY NEW FEATURES and CHANGES from NetWorker 8.x to NetWorker 9.2
Refer to the NetWorker documentation and training for a complete list of changes and more information on how these
changes affect NetWorker operations and functionality.

IMPORTANT changes with NetWorker 9.x releases

‘savepnpc’ command is no longer available starting in NetWorker Server no longer supported on Unix. Customers
NetWorker 9.x. Savepnpc has been replaced with pre with NW Servers running on Unix will need to migrate their NW
and post commands. For detailed steps see the Servers to supported versions of Windows or Linux.
‘Customizing backups with the pre and post commands’ Professional Services are mandatory to assist with a NW Server
within the ‘Backup command customization’ section in migration. Please speak to your DELL EMC sales representative
the NetWorker 9.2.x Administration Guide for more for details
details. Java Heap for NMC: Java Heap is very much required for NMC.
For more details and best practices see the Performance
Optimization and Planning Guide
Reconfiguring AD and LDAP Directory: While SQL log backups are now done using log only option and not
upgrading from NW 8.X to NW 9.X. If the 8.X NMC had incremental backups anymore. For more details refer to the
AD or LDAP authentication configured, the NMM User Guide for NetWorker 9.2
authentication could break during the upgrade and
must be reconfigured post upgrade. Save sets expiration process changes: Save set expiration with
Refer to page ‘Reconfiguring LDAP or AD NetWorker 9.x does not occur as it did with NetWorker 8.x. For
authentication’ in the NetWorker 9.2 Upgrade more details, please refer to the ‘Changes to the save set
Document expiration process’ section in the NetWorker 9.2 Upgrade
Document
No separate Browsing and Browse Retention policies: Exchange backups directly to tape are no longer available:
Prior to NW 9.x customers could have different browse NMM uses Block Based Backup (BBB) technology to back up
and retention policies. For more details please refer to Exchange Server and Hyper-V Server data. For more details,
Technical Note: Differences between NetWorker 9.0 and please refer to the NMM 9.2 Administration Guide and the
Previous Releases Networker 9.2 Administration guide
Client Packaging changes: The NW Client package has NMM 9.X Module: NMM supports federated backups for
been split into two packages (Client and Extended Exchange Server DAGs and IP-less DAGs. NMM does not
Client. For more details, please refer to the NetWorker support backup operations for individual mailbox servers within
9.0 Upgrade Document a DAG. For more details, please refer to the NMM 9.2 Exchange
VSS Release User Guide
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Backups: After Cloning: The capability to do scheduled cloning changes while
upgrade of NMM the backup levels for VSS backups are upgrading from NW 8.X to 9.X. For more details, please refer to
always at level FULL as seen in the media DB. For more the following KB How to separate backup and cloning in
details, please refer to the NMM 9.0.1 Administration NetWorker 9.x
Guide
Some New items with NW 9.0.x, 9.1.x & 9.2 See the NetWorker & Modules 9.x release materials for a complete list of changes.
New Policy Engine — supports end-to-end life cycle ItemPoint is required for NMM Granular Level Recoveries
data management with “action” oriented service plans (GLR). ItemPoint is a separate package available at **No
for all existing and new workflows. Workflows can

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include the following: Backup Operations, Snapshot additional Charge (available for Win 2016 Databases ( SQL,
Operations, ProtectPoint Operations, Server Exchange and SharePoint))
Maintenance, and Configuration Management. Client direct backup to the cloud for Microsoft Windows clients
Block Based Backup (BBB) — supports Microsoft including backing up Hyper-V images, file systems, applications
Exchange, Hyper-V, and Linux. BBB provides 5x for faster backup to the cloud storage including AWS, Azure,
performance improvement from previous NetWorker and Dell EMC Elastic Storage
versions. Data Domain Virtual Edition support for backup application
Media Catalog Improvements — the new SQLite data within AWS and Azure
database is fast and provides up to 6x improvement on VMware: Application-Consistent VM backup supporting
control operations and increased scaling from previous Microsoft SQL providing policy orchestration for database full
NetWorker versions. and transaction log backup and restore of SQL databases and
NetWorker VMware Protection (NVP) has been SQL instances.
architecturally improved to provide a more lightweight, Hyper-V: improve space efficiency and cleanup for overgrowth
better performance and scale to meet today’s large size and orphaned differencing disks
virtual environments. This replaces the NetWorker
Virtual Backup solution available in earlier NetWorker Cloning hardening
releases

Some New items with NW 9.2.1 See the NetWorker & Modules 9.2.x release materials for a complete list of changes
Ease-of-use and security: VMware:
o Breakthrough logging enabling easier searching o Recovering VM metadata during the VM restore
within log files o Image backup of VMware VM on standalone ESXi which is
o Wildcard in directory specifications for directives not connected to any vCenter.
o In-flight encryption Licensing:
Unserved licensing model option where Dell EMC license server
is not required for license enablement and validation.

DOWNLOADS
Note: DELL EMC encourages customers to move to NetWorker 9.2.1.2 (Target Code) or later.
See NetWorker, NVE, NVP and Modules 9.2.1 Cumulative Hotfixes
Be advised that due to increased frequency of NetWorker releases; NetWorker & Modules 9.2.x
and CloudBoost 2.2.x will reach End of Primary Support on December 31, 2019.

NetWorker Virtual Edition OVA

Linux SLES11 SP3 (64-bit)
Linux x64 and x86 Windows x64
NetWorker version NetWorker Virtual Edition (NVE) is a
Client, Server and Storage Node Client, Server and Storage Node NetWorker server that runs as a
virtual machine in a VMware
environment.
Recommended Recommended Recommended
NetWorker 9.2.1.3 build 215 for NetWorker 9.2.1.3 build 215 for NetWorker 9.2.1.3 build 215
NetWorker 9.2.1.3 Linux for x64 x86 Windows for x64 Virtual Edition OVA
Build 215 May 24, 2018 | 1079 MB | May 24, 2018 | 797 MB | May 24, 2018 | 2310 MB |
See NetWorker, NVE, NVP
SHA256 Checksum: SHA256 Checksum: SHA256 Checksum:
and Modules 9.2.1
Cumulative Hotfixes 9d2d60681165d0b4e8854c84ed0 af78568ee39b59bccbad9f00a07e a986a32534b0a0d4592c3c86edc3
c8d1afbb5e898b5baf21a301780fc 980a916f95490cd01f46c96bf831d 908c09543282b7c0e62ca95379e3
bf2113d7 5b2485e 521e6b7b

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Target Code NW 9.2.1.2 Target Code NW 9.2.1.2 Target Code NW 9.2.1.2

Target Code NetWorker 9.2.1.2 build 204 for NetWorker 9.2.1.2 build 204 for NetWorker 9.2.1.2 build 204
NetWorker 9.2.1.2 Linux for x64 x86 Windows for x64 Virtual Edition OVA
Build 204 April 6, 2018 | 1077 MB | April 6, 2018 | 798 MB | April 6, 2018 | 2310 MB |
See NetWorker, NVE, NVP SHA256 Checksum: SHA256 Checksum: SHA256 Checksum:
and Modules 9.2.1 a592fcb60812aa8d389d44731c9f 1f5c82306233eaaac8d696168b96 efa22e1952063020c1c16ee4e898
Cumulative Hotfixes 529e0ec633f7d85dd7a6596dc4c0 f0c864b7f97b1700b1d7dd11b505 19b1302abdb55cb3a681bc0c656c
54cdf33d c05f74c2 3b59ef73
No longer Recommended No longer Recommended No longer Recommended
NetWorker 9.2.1.1 build 194 for NetWorker 9.2.1.1 build 194 for NetWorker 9.2.1.1 build 194
NetWorker 9.2.1.1 Linux for x64 x86 Windows for x64 Virtual Edition OVA
Build 194 February 5, 2018 | 1112 MB | February 5, 2018 | 833 MB | February 5, 2018 | 2145 MB |
See NetWorker, NVE, NVP
SHA256 Checksum: SHA256 Checksum: SHA256 Checksum:
and Modules 9.2.1
Cumulative Hotfixes 3531bb54d11cb6987f5117896089 1fd10523637b2819c0b323c59dcb 95ab04d2aa65f93526d44db598b
dc555d1cff29b60b274f91a79c9da 7bb5801458629dbadb8fe0fb84a0 3265828b49618fb8db85dfd137fc
85b7e67 095ebc3c bacf2cae9
No longer Recommended No longer Recommended No longer Recommended
NetWorker 9.2.1 build 163 for NetWorker 9.2.1 build 163 for NetWorker 9.2.1 build 163 Virtual
NetWorker 9.2.1 Linux for x64 x86 Windows for x64 Edition OVA
Build 163 November 22, 2017 | 1.1 GB | November 22, 2017 | 833 MB | November 22, 2017 | 2.4 GB |
SHA256 Checksum: SHA256 Checksum: SHA256 Checksum:
4c2f323f85a675ffb045c531a9855 c98c85e926ea2cba86f79b791c26 f4d676a58cc7f09dc4d0e4a3eb29
24e3ca67e48223cd00f17c6158b8 d2edc38a13ce999da5d2836264f3 d1ddc418247b49d3bca405edff77
b2eb1d3 24b9a777 3be43e89
No longer Recommended No longer Recommended No longer Recommended
NetWorker 9.2.0.3 build 85 for NetWorker 9.2.0.3 build 85 for NetWorker 9.2.0.3 build 85
Linux for x64 x86 Windows for x64 Virtual Edition OVA
NetWorker 9.2.0.3 August 30, 2017 | 1.07 GB | August 30, 2017 | 820 MB | August 30, 2017 | 2.48 GB |
Build 85 SHA256 Checksum: SHA256 Checksum: SHA256 Checksum:
f76d9763a912d1dc3684ee360dff5 7eecabc6800f97d402622a4150df d8353810cee43cdc137c9cd29fe1
e1391655ed1a0a7b324bc653b8ae 468ed6dfb7be7538413e2b95e604 00e10388891b01a5ea9a447d81d
5300b2e ae2b8147 31f08c221

Additional NetWorker and NetWorker DOCUMENTATION

Module Packages Info on NetWorker operations and functionality
 NetWorker  NetWorker
 NetWorker Module for Microsoft  NetWorker Module for Microsoft
 NetWorker Module for Databases and Applications  NetWorker Module for Databases and Applications
 NetWorker Module for SAP  NetWorker Module for SAP
 NetWorker Module for MEDITECH  NetWorker Module for MEDITECH
 CloudBoost  CloudBoost

ARCHIVE

Dell EMC has archived the NetWorker and Module versions for 9.2.1 & 9.2.0.3 releases.
Note: NW 9.2.1 and 9.2.0.3 packages are now available under ‘Archive’

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