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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Configuring isolated recovery environment (IRE)
  4. Requirements
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Requirements

Following are the requirements to configure isolated recovery environment (IRE) in a Pull model:

  • WORM storage server: 17.0 or later (on Flex Appliance: 2.1.1 or later)

  • NetBackup BYO media server: 10.1 or later

  • NetBackup Flex Scale: 3.2 or later

  • Access Appliance: 8.2 or later

  • Flex media server: 11.1 or later

Table: Supported configuration for MSDP source and targets lists the supported configuration for MSDP source and targets for isolated recovery environment.

Table: Supported configuration for MSDP source and targets

Source

Target

Deployment models

NetBackup version

WORM version

Replication - OptDup model

MSDP, WORM

WORM

Flex 2.1

10.0

16.0

Push model

MSDP, WORM

MSDP, WORM

BYO, Flex 2.1.1

10.1

17.0

Pull model

MSDP, WORM

MSDP, WORM

BYO, Flex

10.1.1

17.1

Pull model with IPv6 + mixed CA support for IRE hosts

MSDP, WORM, MSDP Scaleout

MSDP, WORM, MSDP Scaleout

BYO, Flex, Flex Scale

10.2

18.0

Pull model

MSDP, WORM, MSDP Scaleout

MSDP, WORM, MSDP Scaleout

BYO, Flex, Flex Scale

10.3

19.0

Web UI

Note:

For NetBackup 10.0 and WORM 16.0, download the hotfix VRTSflex-HF3-2.1.0-0.x86_64.rpm for the Flex Appliance in the IRE and NetBackup EEB VRTSflex-msdp_EEB_ET4067891-16.0-3.x86_64.rpm for the WORM storage server application from the Download Center.

Note:

Both the source and the target domain must meet the minimum software version requirements.

In the NetBackup releases prior to 10.3.0.1, the isolated recovery environment feature is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux BYO only. From NetBackup 10.3.0.1, the isolated recovery environment is supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server BYO also.

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