NetBackup Version Comparison

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licensing and pricing model.

Features 10 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Notes

Extensive workload Widest support from edge to core to cloud with 800+ data sources,
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
support 1,400+ storage targets, and 60+ cloud providers.

Role-based access 8.3 provided more granular access controls. 9 added role-based templates
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
control (RBAC) to help with role creation and management.

Authentication and 8.3 added SAML 2.0 support for single sign-on in the web UI and user
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
auditing auditing by sending user audit logs to the syslog.

Encryption in transit 8.3 added support for third-party key management with KMIP integration,
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
and at rest 2048-bit or higher keys for NetBackup Certificate Authority (CA) to ensure
data integrity throughout the data journey.

Multi-factor Extend MFA across all product interfaces – GUI, CLI, SSH – further
✔ ✔ ✔
authentication (MFA) reducing attack surfaces.
Everywhere

Multi-Person Prevents malicious operations (data deletions, etc.) from being performed if
✔ ✔ ✔
Authorization for a user’s workstation is compromised – a designated approver must confirm
Critical Operations before the operation can proceed.

Adaptive Multi-Factor Sensitive user actions and changes to security settings are subject to
✔ ✔
Authentication (MFA) additional authentication prompts to ensure security is always on – not just
at initial login.

Adaptive Multi-Person Intelligent defense against insider threats with expanded support for
✔ ✔
Authorization (MPA) changes to security settings, WORM configuration, and adaptive MPA
checks.

TLS 1.3 support Faster and more secure data encryption for both in-transit and at-rest data.
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

FIPS 140-2‒compliant Validated FIPS 140-2 cryptographic module for Filesystem, Oracle,
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Microsoft SQL, SAP HANA, IBM DB2, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Red
Hat Virtualization, Nutanix AHV, DynamicNAS, MongoDB, Hadoop, HBase,
MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MariaDB, Microsoft SharePoint, NetBackup
Snapshot Manager, NetBackup Flex Appliances, and for data at rest in all
target storage controlled by NetBackup.

High-Performance Adding to the multi-stream backups added for Hadoop in version 10.3,
✔ ✔
Hadoop Recovery new multi-stream recovery support for Hadoop now provides optimal
performance for both backup and recovery.

Long-term retention Keep backup images for an extended period of time and be able to recover
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
(LTR) efficiently. 9 introduced longer data retention.

Isolated Recovery NetBackup 10.1 expands IRE support by eliminating the need for additional
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Environment (IRE) infrastructure when isolating and protecting data. This allows NetBackup to
create an isolation boundary around an existing firewall and to use the pull
method to move data without the risk of introducing malicious activity from
production to an environment. The latest release builds upon advancements
introduced in NetBackup 10 including the use of a Flex based, push model
IRE.
Security Risk Meter Assess risk posture for NetBackup security configurations by allowing users
✔
to set a baseline for their security configuration and track changes from that
baseline.

Immutability with Hardened Appliances. NetBackup support for immutable storage

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
NetBackup and (NetBackup OpenStorage Technology [OST]) and NetBackup Flex help
NetBackup Flex running prevent ransomware from encrypting or deleting backup data.
on Appliances

Recovery at scale NetBackup integration with Resiliency Platform, introduced in 8.3, provides
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
multi-SLO automation and orchestration to simplify recovery at scale.
NetBackup 10.1 delivers Orchestrated Recovery to recover VMware VMs
into Azure Using Image Sharing.

Automated Recovery Based on anomalies, projected recovery time, entropy analysis, and other
✔ ✔
Point Recommendations heuristics, recommended restore points are highlighted in Alta View to
ensure a clean recovery while balancing RPO and RTO.

Immutable Object Lock AWS (9.1), Microsoft Azure, Hitachi Content Platform, Cloudian HyperStore,
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
storage support and Seagate Lyve Cloud S3 Object Lock immutable storage support.

Blast Radius Analysis Perform fast and efficient searches for malware and other potential
✔
indicators of compromise (IOCs) with hash-based content index across the
entire enterprise environment.

Artificial intelligence Detects and alerts of suspect behavior at the time of backups. This
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
(AI)‒powered anomaly feature ensures data is always recoverable and enables businesses to take
detection immediate action when ransomware strikes, isolating backups with malware
and limiting its impact.

Anomaly Detection user Ability to identify system-level or user behavior anomalies using ML and
✔ ✔ ✔
behavior enhancements audit trails.

Malware detection Integration with malware scanners to scan backup images from MSDP.
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
integration

Malware Scanning for Perform bulk malware scanning of replicated backups with available CPU
✔
Secondary Domains cycles of secondary or tertiary environments

Expanded Malware Enables malware scanning for cloud object storage & data lakes (S3/
✔
Scanning compatible, Blob storage, etc.)

Malware scan Automatically pause data protection activities for the protected asset
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
automatic pausing of when an infection in a backup image is detected. These include backups,
backup activities duplication, and expiration activities.

Parallel Malware scan Configure the number of concurrent scans to maximize efficiency while
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
tracking the real-time progress of each job.

Inline Malware Integrated malware scanning during restore, and support for cloud VMs and
✔ ✔ ✔
Scanning during Universal Shares.
recovery
Malware scan Virtual Malware scans can be used to identify the “last-known-good” backup before
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Machines restoring for Virtual Machine workloads.

Security/Early Warning Integration with SOAR/XDR platforms to pause or resume data protection
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
systems (SIEM/SOAR) activities based on security or maintenance events. Anomaly and malware
scan alerts stored within system logs can be ingested easily by early warning
systems such as SIEM platforms.

Integration with Cloud- Use the push method to transmit audit events from NBU to cloud-based
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
based SIEM/SOAR SIEM/SOAR directly with support for Azure Sentinel.

Industry-Standard Accelerate security incident analytics by adopting the Open Cybersecurity

✔ ✔
OCSF data security Schema Framework (OCSF) for security event logs.
format support
2FA/SAML for Java UI Enhanced secure login for customers using the Java Admin Console.
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Credential Automate external credential management and scalability across complex

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Management System multi-domain systems.
support for MSSQL
workloads

NetBackup Flex 8.3 introduced immutable and indelible storage support.

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

TLS 1.3 support Faster and more secure data encryption for both in-transit and at-rest data.
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

NetBackup SaaS 9.1 was released concurrently with the launch of NetBackup SaaS
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Protection Protection, introducing SaaS application data protection for Microsoft 365,
Slack, and Box. 10 adds integration between NetBackup and NetBackup
SaaS Protection, the ability to replicate SaaS backup data to an on-premises
Access appliance, and data protection for Google Workspace.

NetBackup Appliance Deploy NetBackup virtual or physical appliances or download NetBackup

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
or software for BYO software for BYO or cloud instances. Use third-party configuration
management tools like Chef or Microsoft SCCM to orchestrate custom
enterprise deployments.

MSDP (Media Server 8.3 added support for tier directly from MSDP. 9 added web UI support to
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Deduplication Pool) configure a recovery server for image sharing. Support Direct Writing to Azure
direct cloud-tiering Archive Tier, Performance Improvements for Ushare Ingest of Large DBs (10+
TB)

MSDP Volume Groups Simplify management and improve scalability with a single MSDP server acting
✔
as a front-end storage target on top of other MSDP storage targets.

Instant Access on Access data directly from backup storage, providing a virtual file system
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
MSDP based on Object view of data that is compressed, encrypted, and deduped.
Storage

Enhanced Media Optimize spin-up to incrementally improve efficiency with the smallest
✔ ✔ ✔
Server Elasticity and deployment of a media server image.
Intelligence

Enhanced Cloud Eliminates the requirement for dedicated load balancers, reducing fixed
✔
Elasticity costs and providing improved efficiency and scalability.

CPaaS Use Managed Improved and modernized cloud-native security model allows for IAM roles-
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Identity IAM Based based security for NBU snapshot manager.
Azure Plugins

Replication Configure NetBackup Snapshot Manager Service in the NBU Web-UI and
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Orchestration for manage “Backup from Replica” with the array’s replication Data Mover to
Snapshot Manager streamline replication.

Cloud-native backup Cloud-native workloads through the integration of NetBackup Snapshot

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
solution Manager.

Blueprints for Create blueprints in Alta View that automate and accelerate recovery
✔
Orchestrated Recovery operations.

Cross-Cloud Recovery Flexibly recover VMs from Azure to AWS or AWS to Azure. And replicate
✔
DBPaaS backups to other NetBackup domains for recovery.

Cloud snapshot Direct recovery of individual files and folders through the web UI without
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
granular recovery having to roll back the entire snapshot first.
9 introduced Azure incremental snapshots, saving costs and optimizing
cloud storage space.

Workload and data New Azure Stack to Azure Stack and Azure Stack to Azure portability/
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
portability to Azure resiliency.
Stack and Azure
Incremental Backup Protection for Azure SQL workloads with minimal overhead, compute, and
✔ ✔ ✔
Support for Azure SQL storage requirements.
and Azure SQL MI

Image sharing with Compatible object storage.

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Azure and AWS S3

Expanded S3 Immutable object lock support available for IBM Cloud Object Storage, Data
✔ ✔ ✔
Immutability Support Core Cloud Cluster Storage, and NetApp Storage Grid.

Multi-Stream Cloud Optimize backup performance with dramatically higher throughput and
✔
Object Storage multi-stream backups of cloud object storage targets.
Protection

Disaster recovery (DR) Automated, orchestrated, DR at scale to the cloud.

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
to the cloud

At-scale push-button At-scale DR of business units in the cloud and between clouds.
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
business DR to the
cloud

Cloud snapshot Enabling application-aware snapshots, single-file recovery, and multi- region
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
orchestration snapshot migration.

Unified single-server Optimize costs and cloud storage usage with deduplication.
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
deduplication

Dedupe to object Reduce the cost of bandwidth and cloud storage. Common data is factored
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
storage, including out before sending to the cloud.
AWS Glacier, Azure 9 introduced support for Azure Archive.
Archive, and Deep
Archive tiers

Automate public cloud Simplified deployment directly from public cloud marketplaces (AWS/Azure/
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
deployment with Google Cloud Platform). 9.1 enabled NetBackup Snapshot Manager co-
marketplace images deployment with NetBackup for AWS and Azure.

Backup from cloud Leverage SLP policies to move contents of snapshots to NetBackup storage
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
snapshots for cost savings. Now includes Recovery Vault as a backup destination.

Cloud Intelligent Create and manage intelligent groups of cloud assets using tags and
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Policies attributes to ensure AWS, Azure, Azure Stack, and GCP cloud assets are
protected.

Cloud autoscaling Cloud resources are dynamically re-sized, ensuring protection needs are met
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
while optimizing storage costs and resources.

Multi-tier backup Ensure data is not only protected and to alternate locations but is stored in
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
copies lower-cost storage in a deduplicated format to avoid high, unexpected cloud
costs.

Backup and Recovery Full backup and recovery support for PaaS workloads, including 9 workloads
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
support for PaaS across three clouds:
workloads • Azure SQL/MI Azure DB for Sybase and MySQL
• Amazon DynamoDB, RDS Sybase and MySQL
• Google PostgreSQL and MySQL

PaaS workloads will be automatically discovered and can create a protection

plan for the databases and enact it autonomously, providing fast and agile
support for new workloads.

Intelligent Groups for Expand the intelligent discovery capabilities of NetBackup and Veritas Alta
✔ ✔
PaaS Workloads Data Protection to include cloud PaaS workloads.

Oracle Self-Service Recover an entire Oracle system completely within the NetBackup user
✔ ✔ ✔
Recovery interface – either through automated recovery via API, or a delegated
recovery via RBAC.
Incremental backup Extract incremental data from the workload referencing against the point in
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
support for PaaS time of the previous full backup.
workloads

Expanded Cloud • Support for GenAI with Google BigQuery protection

✔
Workload Support • Incremental backup support for Azure MySQL
• Cloud snapshot support for Amazon Redshift

PostgreSQL Self Service Control PostgreSQL and MySQL deployments with autodiscovery of
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
& MySQL Self Service deployed databases, intelligent policy with scriptless protection and restore
capabilities via wizard.

Automated Recovery of Eliminate the manual lift of extracting, updating, and attaching databases
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
PostgreSQL and MySQL and instances to PostgreSQL and MySQL when performing a recovery task.
Databases

Point-in-Time Recovery Advances in capabilities to do granular, point-in-time recoveries for

✔ ✔
Enhancements PostgreSQL databases, and MS SQL databases within VMware
environments.

Azure SQL PaaS Discovery of existing Azure SQL protection outside of NetBackup and the
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
workloads ability to initiate an Azure SQL restore.

Support for AWS Connect to and use AWS PrivateLink with NetBackup MSDP-C.
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
PrivateLink with
MSDP-C

Cloud Region Resiliency Resiliency across AWS regions to provide quick RTO and Low RPO for
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
for AWS workloads.

Resiliency Platform Cloud marketplace offerings now available for NetBackup and Resiliency
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
marketplace install for Platform family.
Google Cloud Platform
(GCP)

Single file restore from Quickly recover individual files from backups without having to recover an
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
snapshot entire snapshot – providing easier and faster granular recovery.

Multi-volume snapshot Ability to configure consistency groups that are snapped at the same point
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
support in time using FlexSnap. This is a common requirement for customers that
have applications with data spanning multiple volumes.

Accelerator backup from When backing up from snapshots in the cloud, provides the ability to use the
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
snapshot NetBackup Accelerator feature.

OpenStack Supports significantly more functionality for OpenStack, including

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
enhancements integrating into the NetBackup Web UI with plug-in support for Horizon
integration, providing incremental backup, restore of a single VM or file,
quota integration, and tenant-level, self-service protection.

Universal Shares Leverages Universal Share feature to expand protection capabilities and
✔ ✔
Integration for functionality for OpenStack environments.
OpenStack

Cassandra database Support for Cassandra big data workloads with cluster-consistent agentless
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
support backup and recovery. Backup Cassandra workloads when a cluster is in use
or active and granularly restore from table or keyspace level.
Support for Kubernetes Adds policy management protection for Kubernetes workloads, along with
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
(K8s) new backup options.

Policy Management for Backup and recover namespaces on platform-agnostic (storage and
✔
Kubernetes Workloads Kubernetes) deployments with RBAC enabled self-service from the
NetBackup web UI. Leverage K8s APIs, custom operators, and Container
Storage Interface (CSI) snapshots.

Extend CSI-based Support backup from snapshot for block-based and file-based storage in the
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
snapshot support (the same namespace allowing for parallel stream recovery.
standard for Kubernetes)

Kubernetes Duplication Image duplication for the tiering of backup storage (service lifecycle policies,
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
of Backup Copy and AIR “SLP”) and AIR are built-in.
Support

Database-consistent Protect any database in an application-consistent manner.

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
backups for Kubernetes
(K8s)

Kubernetes (K8s) cluster Recover an entire Kubernetes cluster in case of a disaster.

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
recovery

Data movement for Support for any NetBackup storage target available in the web UI, including
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Kubernetes (K8s) deduplication. Added Client side dedupe for optimization of the network
to reduce cost and overhead. Ability to make multiple backup copies for
storage tiering for additional storage savings and SLA management.

Kubernetes (K8s) instant Ability to instantly rollback Kubernetes namespaces from snapshots. Ability
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
rollback from snapshot to set different retentions on snapshot and backup copy.

Automated protection Create and manage intelligent groups of Kubernetes assets using labels to
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
for Kubernetes (K8s) – ensure your Kubernetes cluster and assets are protected along the ability to
Intelligent Policies include/exclude resources.

Kubernetes (K8s) Backup in one distribution, recover to another for distribution mobility and
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
distribution mobility disaster recovery.

FIPS Compliance for Provides a higher level of security for Kubernetes workload protection
✔ ✔ ✔
K8 Workloads (on RHEL meeting FIPS requirements for any RHEL-based VMs.
Based VMs)

Perform VMware single- Ability to recover granular data.

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
file recovery or any file
system
Cloud to On-Premises Support recovery from cloud VMs directly to on-premises VMware
✔ ✔
VMware Recovery environments.

Malware Scanning for Integrated malware scanning for VMware workloads and Unstructured data
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
VMs and Unstructured catalog and recovery.
Data
Support for vTPM Allow backup and restore of virtual machines (VMs) that use vTPM for high-
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
(Virtual Trusted Platform security environments.
Module)
Support for VMware Direct support for VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA)
✔ ✔
vSAN ESA workloads, increasing scalability and performance.

vCloud discovery Reduce discovery time in very large environments from hours to minutes.
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
enhancements

VMware agentless Agentless backup and recovery, including single-file recovery and instant
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
everywhere access.

VMware performance Discovery is over 50x faster, allowing jobs to start sooner.
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
enhancements
Support for VMware Support for VMware Cloud, HyperScale Partners, and integrated systems,
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Cloud Foundation (VCF) including Dell EMC VxRail.

Support for VMware Automated workflows enable easier management.

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
vRealize, vSphere
7, and ServiceNow
plug-ins

NetBackup instant Perform instant recovery of production VMs by leveraging Change Block
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
rollback for VMware Tracking to only recover unique blocks to a healthy state.

Continuous Data Leverage stun-free backups of VMware VMs with low-RPO, providing added
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Protection (CDP) for resiliency through granular recovery points with the ability to recover files
VMware and folders.

VMware on-cloud To support VMware on public cloud deployments the data mover technology
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
support for in-guest will need to be leveraged from within the guest OS because the VAIO
IO tap framework is disabled by default by VMware when deploying vSphere within
the public cloud.

Improved Cloud VM Improved user experience and control, with enhancements that improve
✔ ✔ ✔
Restores manageability and cost tracking.

Support for Nutanix Protection including Accelerator, incremental support, licensing, and HMI
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
AHV plug-in hypervisor policy support.

Nutanix AHV self- Enforce access and control through the streamlined role creation process
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
service using the web UI.

Support for agentless Quickly recover a single file or folder to ensure quick access to data.
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
file and folder restore
for Nutanix AHV

Nutanix AHV data Agentless support for single file folder recovery. Support for VM group
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
management filters to classify the different types of protection they want to assign to
each group. Inclusion of application-consistent backups. Resource throttling
control to set resource limits during backup.

Nutanix AHV restore Restore Nutanix VMs from snapshot without additional load on the network,
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
from snapshot Nutanix AHV cluster, and NetBackup media server.

Support for Oracle and RAC backup improvements (ported functionality to the web UI) and load
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Oracle RAC balancing with Oracle Intelligent Policies in 8.3.

Oracle Integration Capabilities for Oracle environments that improve the flexibility, efficiency,
✔ ✔
Enhancements and security of protecting Oracle systems – on-premises and in the cloud.

Oracle Instant Protect large Oracle databases across multiple universal shares and MSDP
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Access using Multiple storage Pools and NBFS protection of Oracle data that is larger than the
Universal Shares capacity of one node in the MSDP-X cluster.
Protection
Big Data and DB Expanded Protection/Recovery support for Cassandra and Oracle databases
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Support

Support for MS-SQL Database admin self-service/web UI integration in 8.3.

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
workloads

Oracle deduplication Lightweight plug-in to backup and restore directly to and from MSDP.
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
direct

Universal Shares for Get all the benefits of Copilot on any Universal Share, no longer limited to
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Oracle Appliances. Enables an incremental forever strategy enabling quick RTO
objective and minimized backup window.
Additional MS-SQL Recover from any copy, not just the primary, for MS SQL, ensuring quick
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
recovery option access to data.

Instant Access with Accelerated recovery for an improved, web-based customer experience.
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
MS-SQL databases for
NetBackup Appliances
and BYO

Support for Oracle Access control of databases.

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Wallet

Oracle Data Guard Support for Oracle Data Guard in Oracle Intelligent Policies to streamline data.
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Universal Share Added support for BYO in 8.3.

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
support with BYO and
NetBackup Appliances

Universal Share web Universal Share Self-Service Recovery via Web UI

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
support

Quota and HA support Automatic failover if a node goes down plus the ability for the storage admin
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
for Universal Shares to restrict how much data can go into a share.
on Appliances

NAS data protection Protocol used to protect NAS that is not flexible and provides NAS
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
based on NDMP storage vendor lock-in. 9 added support to create an NDMP policy through
the web UI.

NAS data protection Support for traditional snapshot-based protection of NAS devices, data
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
with Dynamic portability, automatic performance tuning, and simplified administration for
NAS (DNAS) data NFS 9 introduced a resume backup or restore at a point in time rather than
protection start at the beginning with checkpoint restart.

Dynamic NAS (DNAS) Added support for CIFS/SMB.

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Data Protection for
CIFS/SMB

Malware scanning ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Quickly and easily recover the “last known good” backup, reducing downtime
support for DNAS while ensuring constant protection.
workloads

NAS Parallel Recovery ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Accelerate recovery by leveraging parallel recovery streams to increase the
from DNAS Backup throughput of backup processing.

DNAS Performance ✔ ✔ ✔ Major speed improvements in throughput and optimization improvement for
Improvements discovery and I/O

Support for MongoDB ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Protect single or multiple instances of Mongo in sharded or non-sharded
environments for community or enterprise version 3.4/3.6/4.0. 9 added
support for MongoDB v5.0, zLinux Support.
 Modern UI & Integrations

Features Notes
10 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5

Simplified UI and added ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Improvements to BMR capability in APIs and Web UI. Added Nutanix AHV,
workloads and features Kubernetes, NetBackup Instant Rollback for VMware, and more.
(RBAC, new workloads,
API)

Built-in cloud ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Integrated NetBackup Snapshot Manager and Resiliency Platform to

snapshots and DR introduce a unified experience that delivers cloud-native protection and
orchestration DR orchestration directly from NetBackup. NetBackup 10.1 expands
management support and introduces backup from snapshot for GCP and
expands protection with S3/Blob discovery and setup plug-ins for Snapshot
Manager.

Reduce Java footprint ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 8.1.2 added VxUpdate for client upgrades and EEB deployment. 8.2
expanded VxUpdate to handle BYO media servers. 8.3 and 9 reduced Java
footprints leveraging the intuitive web UI.

NetBackup SaaS ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Ability to monitor NetBackup SaaS Protection policies using the same
Protection monitoring NetBackup web UI.

NetBackup IT ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ A NetBackup-only subset feature set for reporting, alerting, dashboards,

Analytics Foundation and access to the NetBackup web UI. Available only for customers
purchasing NetBackup 10.x or later with a new subscription.

Splunk Plug-in ✔ View all security and audit log-based events across all NetBackup Domains
Integration within Splunk

VMware vCloud ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Incorporates VMware vCloud Director functionality into the NetBackup Web
Director Integration UI, allowing administrators to more easily manage their vCD environments
at scale.

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