ersion 8 capabilities and features are identical across the three deployment alternatives:
- the same Backup Agents are used across all three, giving administrators the flexibility to evolve their servers without modifying their agent machines
- complementary products like Arkeia’s Backup Replication and Arkeia’s Central Management Server work seamlessly across all three backup server deployments, making these advanced capabilities easy to deploy and use
- a consistent and enhanced user interface across deployments means no new learning curve when deployment modes change
Compared to Arkeia Network Backup v7 and earlier versions, version 8 comes with the following enhancements:
- Virtualized Environment Support
- Introduction of a virtual appliance for ESX and ESXi
- Introduction of a VMware ESX Server agent
- Enhanced Graphical User Interfaceo Backup Schedule Calendar introduction
- Reorganization of the Menu for a better ergonomy
- Client-server communication simplification with stronger security
- Remove the dependency of name resolution (FQDN)
- Allows the client to connect to the backup server via IP
- Allows the backup server to connect to the client via IP
- Allows Arkeia to bind to a specific IP
- Enhanced handling of client hostname change
- Enhanced software installation options (DNS or IP)
- Lack of client licenses no longer stops the entire backup job if a new client is added
- Enhanced reporting
- Enhanced Alerts logging to the end user
- Enhanced backup error reporting to the end user
- Wiki-based technical documentation
- New platforms supported including SLES 11 and Mandriva 2009 Spring