1. What’s in Micro Focus Data Protector
Data Protector through the ages from 7.0 to
March 2019

2. A Brief History of Omniback & Data Protector
Introduce Omniback Network Backup System
Omniback for files
Omniback Turbo for DBs
HP releases Omniback II v2.3 & 2.5
HP releases Omniback II v4.0
HP releases Data Protector v6.0
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Apollo Computer Formed
HP acquires Apollo
HP releases Omniback II v2.0
HP releases Omniback II v3.0
HP rebrands Omniback II to Data Protector & releases v5.0
HP releases Data Protector v8.0
HPE/MF releases Data Protector v10.00
MF releases Data Protector
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2014
2017
2018
2019
… to be continued!
2012
HP releases Data Protector v7.0
HP releases Data Protector v9.0
MF releases Data Protector /.11
From May 2018 DP moved to a quarterly release schedule and changed the release naming to a YYYY.MM format

3. New in DP 2019.02 Enhancements quick overview: Released March 4, 2019
End of Support
March 4, 2022
Enhancements quick overview:
Integrated Reporting 3:
Support for DP MoM, additional advanced and predictive reports
Platforms and Apps
MySQL 8 , Windows Server 2019, Suse SLES 15 and Ubuntu & more
Infrastructure:
NetApp ZDB (new agent), new NDMP Certifications
Collaboration:
Phase 2 of integration with H3C CAS

4. New in DP 2018.11 Enhancements quick overview: Released Dec 06, 2018
End of Support
Dec 31, 2021
Enhancements quick overview:
Integrated Reporting 2:
Additional/Enhanced Reports, Custom Reports, Chargeback
Platforms and Apps
VMware vSphere 6.7 U1, Oracle 18c, PostgreSQL 10
Infrastructure:
EMC DataDomain VM Power-On, Live Migration, GRE, support for H3C CAS (China)
Collaboration:
REST API Bridge, PlateSpin reference architecture, Legacy Scheduler
Improved security and upgrade process

5. New in DP 2018.09 Enhancements quick overview: Released Sep 17, 2018
End of Support
Sep 30, 2021
Enhancements quick overview:
Installation:
Cell Manager check on resources, network name and resolution
Data Protector Editions
Introduction of DP Express and Premium Editions and new licensing
Reporting:
New built-in Advanced Reporting Service
Systems:
Enhanced usage of NTFS deduplication
Improved log file handling (size and rotation)
Improved schedule export/import

6. New in DP 2018.05 Enhancements quick overview: Released May 22, 2018
End of Support
June 30, 2020
Enhancements quick overview:
Automation:
DP integration with Operations Orchestration
DP integration with OMi Business Value Dashboard
Storage Enhancements
3-Way NDMP for EMC Isilon and VNX
Virtualization:
Improved GRE security and Mount Proxy selection for VMware
Systems:
Improved LDAP/AD configuration
EADR for Windows Server 2016
Non-root install for Linux clients
OB2ALIGN for Solaris

7. New in DP 10.03 Enhancements quick overview: Released Mar 30, 2018
End of Support
June 30, 2020
Enhancements quick overview:
Usability Enhancements
Scheduling by CLI, improved daily view, pause/resume scheduler install & update improvements
Storage Enhancements
3-Way NDMP backup to StoreOnce & File Library
Cloud Backup to S3/CEPH/SCALITY
HPE StoreOnce Data Immutability
Hardening
Improved User Management/Security
DP ships as hybrid standalone/upgrade build
Installation
RPM install package extraction

8. New in DP 10.02 Enhancements quick overview: Released Nov 30, 2017
End of Support
June 30, 2020
Enhancements quick overview:
Usability Enhancements
Scheduler granularity and improved general security
Storage Enhancements
HPE StoreOnce RMC 4.0/4.1
NetApp ONTAP 9.1
Platform & Application enhancements
SAP HANA 2.0
MS Exchange Granular Recovery
MS Windows Server 2016 Core
3rd Party Branding

9. New in DP 10.01 Enhancements quick overview: Released Sept 30, 2017
End of Support
June 30, 2020
Enhancements quick overview:
Usability Enhancements
Web-based consolidated scheduler operation improvements
Storage Enhancements
DDboost 3.4 and DDos 6.1 Library updates
Updated StoreOnce binaries
NetApp Cluster Mode - Snapshot Management (ZDB) for VMware, Oracle, SQL integrations
Preparing for LTO-8 drive support late 2017
Performance Enancements
Direct I/O support on AIX and Linux
Platform & Application enhancements
MS SharePoint 2013/2016 (GRE / AlwaysOn)
VMware 6.5 +U1 VMFS6 support / VDDK 6.51 Upgrade / ESX 6.0 U3 (6.0.3)
Oracle 12c SYSBACKUP compatibility
Network multi-homing support for application backups

10. New in DP 10.00 Major Enhancements: Released June 30, 2017
End of Support
June 30, 2020
Major Enhancements:
Web-Based User Interface featuring a comprehensive Dashboard, Consolidated Scheduler and Telemetry
REST based Cell Manager access
New secure communication model
Scheduler Compatibility with Backup Navigator 9.60
Storage Integrations
StoreOnce Firmware 3.16
Platform and Application integrations
VMware vSphere/ESX 6.5
IBM AIX 7.2
MS Hyper-V 2016 including cluster support
MS Sharepoint 2013 on MS SQL 2012 Availability Group

11. New in DP 9.09 Major Enhancements: Released March 2017 End of Support
31 Jun 2019
Major Enhancements:
Virtualization: VMware Virtual Machine exclusion list Windows mount proxy support for VMware GRE
Security: OpenSSL security enhancements Consolidation of Data Protector Network Ports
Platform and Application Support MS SQL Oracle 12c R2 Sybase 15.7 and 16
Storage Integrations New EMC DataDomain FirmWare New StoreOnce FirmWare and 3PAR InformOS New NetApp Ontap version
Update to Telemetry collection

12. New in DP 9.08 Major Enhancements: Released October 2016
End of Support
31 Jun 2019
Major Enhancements:
MS Azure Cloud support (Native and StorSimple)
Oracle Multitenant Container/Pluggable Databases (CDB/PDB)
Support for Oracle ASM with ZDB/IR
HPE StoreOnce RMC 2.02/3.0
Ongoing Platform and Application certifications
Defect Fixes
EMC DataDomain Virtual Edition

13. New in DP 9.07 Major Enhancements: Released July 2016 End of Support
31 Jun 2019
Major Enhancements:
VMware incremental GRE, PowerOn & LiveMigration from StoreOnce Catalyst
3PAR Remote copy ZDB with VMware VEPA
StoreOnce Multiprotocol access (cross-over CoIP & CoFC) and Service Set selection
MS Hyper-V individual VHD/VHDX restore
NetApp NDMP Cluster Aware Backup & NDMP 3-Way Backup
Openstack Cinder volumes with VMware
Debug Log and Telemetry Data gathering
PostgreSQL Online Integration
REST API for Restore
EADR support for RHEL 7.x and Oracle Linux 7.x

14. New in DP 9.06 Major Enhancements: Released Apr 2016 End of Support
31 Jun 2019
Major Enhancements:
3PAR InformOS
VMware VDDK 6.0.2
Exchange 2016 GRE
Storage Optimizer 5.x incl Stubbing
Telemetry Data Collection
EADR for BTRFS (i.e. HANA, SUSE)

15. New in DP 9.05 Major Enhancements: Released Dec 2015 End of Support
31 Jun 2019
Major Enhancements:
Rebranding, Versioning, Security enhancements
Catalyst and DDBoost support for Solaris and AIX
Vmware: Parallel VMDK backup per VM
Vmware: Support for linked mode vCenter Servers with GRE
StoreOnce JSONizer improvements for media reconstruction
Bulk-edit of backup specs via CLI
Support for StoreOnce RMC 1.2
Support for LTO-7 drives and libraries
Device Filtering
Updated certification policy

16. New in DP 9.04 Major Enhancements: Released Sep 2015 End of Support
31 Jun 2019
Major Enhancements:
Automated Replication Synchronization between Cell Managers
Improved installation process for site specific patches and test modules,
improved log collection
Lustre file system support
VMware vSphere 6, VDDK 6 and VVOL’s
Integrated backup & recovery for MySQL
ZDB support for EMC VNX/VMAX
Power-On or Life Migrate a VMware VM from 3PAR snapshot
Power-On or Life Migrate a VMware VM from Smart Cache
3PAR Remote Copy Support

17. New in Data Protector 9.03 Major Enhancements: “Security Update”
Released
27 Apr 2015
End of Support
31 Jun 2019
Major Enhancements:
“Security Update”
Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.1j
ECC (Encrypted Control Communication) can be enabled by default
Over 300 fixes/change requests

18. New in Data Protector 9.02 Major Enhancements:
Released
22 Dec 2014
End of Support
31 Jun 2019
Major Enhancements:
VMware GRE from 3PAR snapshots
Backup job automated pause and resume based on priority
Data Domain replication management
New Platforms & Certifications:
VDDK 5.5.3, W2K12 R2 Cluster for CM, NetApp ZDB for Oracle, SAP & SQL, and more…
Localisation French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

19. New in Data Protector 9.01
Released
30 Jul 2014
End of Support
31 Jun 2019
Major Enhancements:
HP Cloud integration for VMware using OpenStack technology
ZDB for NetApp
Hyper-V 2012 R2

20. New in Data Protector 9.0 Major Enhancements: Released 07 Jul 2014
End of Support
31 Jun 2019
Major Enhancements:
SmartCache backup device
Non-staged GRE for VMware
StoreOnce Enhanced Integrations: Federated Catalyst, Catalyst over FC, Catalyst Encryption in flight.
vSphere enhancements: GRE for Linux, VM restore filtering, rapid virtual disk restore, backup performance insight
ABR Phase 2 – Prediction = Backup Navigator 8
DP Management Pack 8 for Microsoft SCOM
General platform certifications, some GUI enhancements

21. New in Data Protector 8.14 Major Enhancements: Released 2015
End of Support
30 Jun 2017
Major Enhancements:
Enhanced Security for OMNIINET Service
Enhanced Device Filtering
VMware VM name mapping in backup/restore specs

22. New in Data Protector 8.13 Major Enhancements: Released 01 Oct 2014
End of Support
30 Jun 2017
Major Enhancements:
Support for application database and device concurrency for SQL, SharePoint, Sybase, SAP MaxDB, Lotus & DP IDB (PostgreSQL)
VDDK support
Many fixes, performance improvements and enhancements.

23. New in Data Protector 8.12 Major Enhancements: Released 22 May 2014
End of Support
30 Jun 2017
Major Enhancements:
Documentation localisation
Many fixes, performance improvements and enhancements to VMware protection and Upgrade issues.

24. New in Data Protector 8.11 Major Enhancements: Released 30 Mar 2014
End of Support
30 Jun 2017
Major Enhancements:
DD Boost Support (Windows & HP/UX)
VMware Enhancements including Filter VM Names, Restore Statistics, NFS Datastore support, SAN Robustness, Performance enhancements
EADR Enhancements including progress counter, Windows 2012 R2 support, Check Point restart
Platform Certifications including ZDB/IR P9500, EMC VMAXE, NDMP 8.2, and Oracle 12c.

25. New in Data Protector 8.1 Major Enhancements: Released 15 Jan 2014
End of Support
30 Jun 2017
Major Enhancements:
Adaptive Backup & Recovery
(ABR) Phase 1 - prioritization
SAP HANA Backint support
StoreOnce encryption & improved compression
Native ZDB/IR support for HP 3PAR StoreServ
Priority based Scheduler
Microsoft Active Directory integration for DP GUI
VMware 5.5 support for both vSphere and vCloudDirector
Disaster Recovery enhancements
Many platform/application version updates

26. New in Data Protector 8.01 Major Enhancements: Released 31 Jan 2014
End of Support
30 Jun 2016
Major Enhancements:
Updated platform support:
VMware 5.1U1for both VEPA/VADP and GRE
Additional Devices including Fujitsu Eternus
95 Change Requests and Defect Fixes

27. New in Data Protector 8.0 Major Enhancements: Released 11 Jun 2013
End of Support
30 Jun 2016
Major Enhancements:
Unsurpassed scalability with new IDB
5,000+ clients, 1 Trillion files
IDB maintenance and GUI improvements
StoreOnce improvements – bandwidth throttling, quotas, VSA
HP-UX ZDB integration for 3PAR StoreServ
StoreOnce de-duplication extended to HP-UX
Exchange 2013 support including GRE
Updated platform support: VMware 5.1, VMware Linux GRE, BMR for Windows 2012, Hyper-V SMB V3

28. New in Data Protector 7.03 Major Enhancements: Released 24 Oct 2013
End of Support
30 Jun 2016
Major Enhancements:
SAP HANA Backint support
SharePoint 2013 support including GRE
VMware GRE Linux guest support
StoreOnce V5 compression improvement
Many VMware enhancements (VDDK 5.1, VEPA enhancements, restart failed objects)
Many other platform/application version updates.

29. New in Data Protector 7.0/7.01 Major Enhancements: Released
End of Support
30 Jun 2016
Major Enhancements:
GRE for Exchange 2010
Federated StoreOnce de-duplication with Catalyst replication
One touch for Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, VMware, Hyper-V and Windows 2012
VMware vCloud Director integration
Integration with HP Autonomy IDOL
Integration with HP Autonomy LiveVault
Introduction of Capacity-based Licensing model

30. Thank you