Bare Metal Restore 4.6

1. Bare Metal Restore 4.6 What’s New in BMR 4.6

2. BMR 4.6 New Features • Dissimilar System Restore (Windows) • Windows 2000 Dynamic Disk Support • Dissimilar Disk Restore with VERITAS Volume Manager (Solaris) • NetBackup Media Server Recovery (Solaris) • Point in Time Restore (all platforms) • VERITAS Foundation Suite 3.5 Support (Solaris) • Enhanced BMR Web Admin GUI • Enhanced Windows Dissimilar Disk Restore GUI

3. Dissimilar System Restore (DSR) • DSR allows a BMR user to recover a Windows system to target hardware that is completely different from the source hardware. • Users require this capability when: • No identical replacement hardware components or systems are available. • The user desires to migrate or upgrade to different hardware. • DSR builds on BMR 4.5’s Dissimilar Disk Restore (DDR) feature. • DDR is still a BMR feature. • DDR can be used with DSR as needed.

4. Dissimilar System Restore • DSR gives BMR a unique differentiator: • Automated system recovery to completely different hardware is something no other product can do. • Competitive products will have issues when Windows objects such as the Registry, device drivers, OS kernel, or Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) are restored to dissimilar hardware that has different devices, bus architecture or chipsets. • DSR addresses many key issues such as: • New NIC and/or MSD drivers may be inserted. • Windows system files may be changed. • IP information may be changed. • Extensive registry changes are always required and are handled automatically by BMR. • Changes are persistent after the restore is complete.

5. Dissimilar System Restore • The source and target systems may differ in: • Manufacturer and model • Number and type of processors (32 bit only) and associated changes such as different Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) • Number and brand of video adapters • Number and brand of Network Interface Cards (NICs) • Number and type of Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) • Number and type of Mass Storage Controllers (MSDs) • Number and size of disk drives (Dissimilar Disk Restore - DDR -rules apply) • IP and Network Configuration • Example: AMD CPU single processor IDE-based Gateway source system could be restored to an Intel CPU multi-processor RAID/SCSI-based Dell target system.

6. DSR Notes and Caveats • When performing DSR, the Prepare-To-Restore function of the BMR Web Administration GUI is more complex. The following steps are required at Prepare to Restore time: • The user must edit a client configuration to specify driver and network changes. • The user must specify the MAC address of each NIC. • The Windows Service Pack level used during BMR restore must match the original system; the appropriate Windows Service Pack is specified by the user at Prepare to Restore time.

7. DSR Notes and Caveats • New MSD and NIC Drivers may need to be added ahead of time with the Create Package Wizard. • This occurs typically when the target hardware is different than the source hardware and the drivers are not available on the Windows installation media. • Driver addition is done easily via the “create package” wizard from any Windows BMR client. • A manual administrator login on the restored system is required to finish the restore.

8. DSR Notes and Caveats • DSR supports Windows NT and 2000 but not Windows Server 2003 or Unix (yet). • DSR does not support cross-OS restores; e.g.,an NT source system cannot restore as a Windows 2000 target system. • NICs and MSDs must be PCI-based. • NICs must be ethernet. • Dissimilar Disk Restore (DDR) supports Windows 2000 Dynamic Disks but not VERITAS Volume Manager (yet). • SAN?

9. Windows 2000 Dynamic Disk Support • BMR 4.6 provides full support for native Windows 2000 (Disk Manager) Dynamic Disks: • Discovers Dynamic Disks • Restores Dynamic Disks • Supports DDR with Dynamic Disks • Windows 2000 Dynamic Disks: • Offer advantages over basic disks, including support for online management, disk reconfiguration, and duplication of critical data structures across multiple disks. • Allow users to extend volumes and make changes to the disk without rebooting the computer. • Contain only dynamic volumes that the user creates in the Windows Disk Management console. • Earlier versions of BMR supported basic disks only.

10. Windows 2000 Dynamic Disk Support • BMR 4.6 supports all types of Windows 2000 Dynamic Disks: • Mirrored Volumes • Striped Volumes • Spanned Volumes • Simple Volumes • Raid-5 Volumes • Extended Partitions • Primary Partitions • Logical Drives • DDR enhancements are detailed in the “Enhanced Windows Dissimilar Disk Restore GUI” section

11. Dynamic Disk Notes and Caveats • Dynamic disk support is for use with the native Windows 2000 Disk Management tool only. • The feature does not add support for VERITAS Volume Manager for Windows*. • The feature does not add support for NT Fault Tolerant configurations. • Dynamic disk support for SAN-connected systems considerations: • BMR will not restore data to SAN-connected data or boot volumes. • BMR will recover the Windows OS on a SAN-connected system that has the Windows OS installed on internal disks. * BMR can coexist with VERITAS Volume Manager for Windows in some configurations; see Tech Note 252616.

12. DDR with Volume Manager • This feature allows a BMR user to use BMR’s Dissimilar Disk Restore (DDR) feature on Solaris systems running VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM). • Earlier versions of BMR could support VxVM without DDR, or DDR without VxVM, but not both together. • The target system may have more, fewer, larger, smaller, or ‘moved’ disks. • BMR automatically discovers the target system disk configuration and the user then performs a mapping of the source system volume/file system layout to the target system using the Web Admin GUI or command line.

13. DDR with Volume Manager • The GUI has been refined and enhanced to allow a user more flexibility in determining what is restored, and where it should be restore to. The user may choose from these options: • Restore / Do Not Restore a Disk Group. • Restore / Do Not Restore a File System. • Change the Disks included in a Disk Group.

14. DDR/VM Notes and Caveats • DDR support for VxVM is limited to those versions of VxVM currently supported by BMR: VxVM 2.5, 2.5.1, 3.0.3, 3.1.1, and 3.2 (and, starting with BMR 4.6, VxVM 3.5) on Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8. • Note: BMR does not yet support Solaris 9.

15. NetBackup Media Server Recovery • This feature enables BMR recovery of a NetBackup Media Server that backs up to locally attached tape devices. • Earlier versions of BMR could restore a Media Server only if it was backed up over the network to a different Media Server. • Solaris SRT’s can now optionally include Media Server code (required for Media Server recovery). • SRT with Media Server code can be used to recover non-Media Server clients.

16. Media Server Notes and Caveats • BMR Media Server support is available on Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8 Media Servers only. • BMR Media Server support is for local SCSI tape drives only; this feature does not support BMR recovery of a SAN Media Server. • If NetBackup catalog backups were to be used instead of the BMR-cached catalogs during restore, then the catalogs must be backed up to a media/master server other than the restoring media server.

17. Point in Time Restore • Point in Time Restore allows a BMR user to recover a BMR client to a configuration that existed prior to the most recent backup. • Powerful feature used to recover a system that was backed up after corruption is introduced; for example, if a virus has attacked a system and the problem is not detected for several days and multiple backups. • Users can now select a client configuration (formerly called the client meta-data) from any backup image in NBU. As long as a backup image exists in NBU, BMR will allow a client to be restored to that point.

18. VERITAS Foundation Suite 3.5 Support • BMR 4.6 supports VERITAS Foundation Suite 3.5 on Solaris. • All BMR features supported on Solaris are supported with VxFST 3.5: • Automated detection and recovery of VxFST 3.5 volumes and file systems. • BMR Network and Media Boot. • BMR Dissimilar Disk Restore,

19. Enhanced BMR Web Admin GUI • The Web Admin GUI for BMR 4.6 is significantly enhanced: • Functional changes to support new functionality: • Dissimilar System Restore • Point in Time Restore • Branding and aesthetic changes to improve the look and feel of the main user interface: • Consistent fonts and data arrangement on all screens. • Improved Unix DDR mapping interface. • Interface consistent with VERITAS Web GUI standards.

20. BMR 4.5 Splash Screen

21. BMR 4.6 Splash Screen

22. BMR 4.6 Prepare to Restore

23. Enhanced Web GUI: Prepare to Restore

24. Enhanced Windows DDR GUI • In BMR 4.6 the Windows DDR mapping utility has been enhanced to support Dynamic Disks, and to simplify the mapping process by allowing drag and drop. • In addition to allowing the user to specify where and whether a partition will be restored, the mapping utility also allows a user to change the partition type and size.

25. DSR/DDR Restore: DDR Mapping Utility

26. DSR/DDR Restore: DDR Mapping Wizard

27. DSR/DDR Restore: DDR Mapping Utility