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Features 9 9.1 10 10.1.X 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.

control (RBAC) 9 added role-based templates 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.

TLS 1.2 support ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Faster and more secure encryption of in-transit data.

FIPS 140-2‒ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Validated FIPS 140-2 cryptographic module for Filesystem, Oracle,
compliant 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, and for data at rest in all target storage controlled
by NetBackup. 10.1.1 supports FIPS 140-2 and STIG-compliance for
NetBackup containers used on Flex, Flex Scale platform along with the
flexibility to apply additional STIG rules.

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

Cloud-native Archive ✔ Veritas Alta™ Recovery Vault (formerly known as NetBackup™ Recovery
storage Vault) provides a cost-optimized, cloud archive storage tier with the
flexibility to choose the recovery time and cost structure that best fits
organizational needs.

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.

Immutability with ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ AWS (9.1), Microsoft Azure, Hitachi Content Platform, Cloudian
NetBackup and HyperStore, and Seagate Lyve Cloud S3 Object Lock immutable storage

NetBackup Flex support.

running 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.

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

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.

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

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.

Malware scan Virtual ✔ Malware scans can be used to identify the “last-known-good” backup before
Machines restoring for Virtual Machine workloads.

Security/Early ✔ Integration with SOAR/XDR platforms to pause or resume data protection

Warning systems activities based on security or maintenance events. Anomaly and malware
(SIEM/SOAR) scan alerts stored within system logs can be ingested easily by early warning
systems such as SIEM platforms.

2FA/SAML for Java UI ✔ ✔ ✔ Enhanced secure login for customers using the Java Admin Console.

NetBackup Flex ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 8.3 introduced immutable and indelible storage support.

Veritas Alta™ SaaS ✔ ✔ ✔ 9.1 was released concurrently with the launch of Veritas Alta SaaS
Protection (formerly Protection, introducing SaaS application data protection for Microsoft 365,
known as NetBackup™ Slack, and Box.
SaaS Protection) 10 adds integration between NetBackup and Veritas Alta 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.
Deduplication Pool) 9 added web UI support to configure a recovery server for image sharing.
direct cloud-tiering Support Direct Writing to Azure Archive Tier, Performance Improvements for
Ushare Ingest of Large DBs (10+ TB)

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

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

Cloud-native backup ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Cloud-native workload protection provided by Veritas AltaTM Data Protection
solution for NetBackup Cloud Workloads

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

Image sharing with ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Compatible object storage.

Azure and AWS S3

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).
marketplace images 9.1 enabled NetBackup Snapshot Manager co-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 Veritas Alta 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 Google Cloud Platform
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 ✔ Veritas Alta Data Protection for NetBackup Cloud Workloads provides full
support for PaaS backup and recovery support for PaaS workloads, including 9 workloads
workloads across three clouds:

• 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.

PostgreSQL Self ✔ Control PostgreSQL and MySQL deployments with autodiscovery of

Service & MySQL Self deployed databases, intelligent policy with scriptless protection and restore
Service capabilities via wizard.

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

Resiliency Platform ✔ ✔ Cloud marketplace offerings now available for NetBackup and Resiliency
marketplace install Platform family.
for Google Cloud
Platform
Multi-volume ✔ ✔ Ability to configure consistency groups that are snapped at the same point in
snapshot support time using FlexSnap. This is a common requirement for customers that have
applications with data spanning multiple volumes.

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

OpenStack support ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Supports significantly more functionality for OpenStack, including

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.

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 ✔ ✔ ✔ Backup and recover namespaces on platform-agnostic (storage and

Kubernetes (K8s) Kubernetes) deployments with RBAC enabled self-service from the
NetBackup web UI. Leverage K8s APIs, custom operators, and Container
Storage Interface (CSI) snapshots.

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

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

backups for
Kubernetes (K8s)

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

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

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.

Perform VMware ✔ ✔ Ability to recover granular data.

single- file recovery or
any file system

Malware Scanning ✔ ✔ Integrated malware scanning for VMware workloads and Unstructured data
for VMs and catalog and recovery.
Unstructured Data

Support for vTPM ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Allow backup and restore of virtual machines (VMs) that use vTPM for high-
(Virtual Trusted security environments.
Platform Module)

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 including Dell EMC VxRail.
(VCF)

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.

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

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 storage
based on NDMP 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

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.

SAP-certified data ✔ Integration with SAP HANA enables customers to deploy NetBackup with the
protection and confidence of certified compatibility.
recovery

Modern UI & Integrations

Features 9 9.1 10 10.1 Notes

Simplified UI and ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Improvements to BMR capability in APIs and Web UI. Added Nutanix AHV,
added workloads and Kubernetes, NetBackup Instant Rollback for VMware, and more.
features (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 Google
Cloud Platform 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.

Veritas Alta SaaS ✔ ✔ Ability to monitor Veritas Alta SaaS Protection policies using the same
Protection monitoring NetBackup web UI.
 NetBackup IT ✔ ✔ A NetBackup-only subset feature set for reporting, alerting,
Analytics Foundation dashboards, and access to the NetBackup web UI. Available only
for customers purchasing NetBackup 10.x or later with a new
subscription.

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

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