RapidRecovery 6.6 ReleaseNotes En-Us
RapidRecovery 6.6 ReleaseNotes En-Us
Release Notes
April 2021
These release notes provide information about the Rapid Recovery release, build 6.6.
Topics include:
NOTE: Currently, the Rapid Recovery Core Console lets you connect to an Azure repository only from
the source Core that replicates to it, and does not support the Connect to Existing feature. For more
information, see https://support.quest.com/kb/332647.
Enhancements
The following is a list of enhancements implemented in Rapid Recovery6.6.
Table 1: General enhancements
Enhancement Issue ID
Improved the behavior of the repository when it runs out of space. RR-67129
Allowed ReFS protection under compatible versions of Windows 2019. RR-108441
Added support for Generation 2 virtual exports and standbys for Microsoft Azure Cloud. RR-110078
Added the ability to identify a machine as running Nutanix AHV and label it as a virtual RR-110546
machine.
Removed Beta label from Azure storage feature. RR-110562
Added support for WinPE 2004 when building a BootCD. RR-110572
Added support for Ubuntu 20.10. RR-110652
Deprecated features
The following is a list of operating systems and applications that have limited support due to end-of-life status as
of Rapid Recovery 6.6:
l Operating systems:
l CentOS Linux 6.4-6.10
l Oracle Linux 6.4-6.10
l Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4-6.10
l SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 and 12 SP3
l Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS
l Hypervisors:
l Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 (for export)
l Hyper-V on Windows 10 x64 (for Agentless protection)
l Oracle Virtual Box 5.2
l Platforms:
l Oracle RDBMS 18c and 12c
l SharePoint Server 2016
l Exchange Server 2010 x64
The following applications are no longer support by Rapid Recovery as of release 6.6:
l Hypervisor:
l VMware Workstation 14.x
Resolved issues
The following table includes a list of issues addressed in this release.
Table 2: Issues resolved in this release
Issue
ID Resolved Issue Description
110686 Rapid Recovery mono failed on the stage of checking system files on CentOS 6 operating systems
with a specific configuration.
110676 A Hyper-V server would crash with a BSOD 0x50 while transferring an agentless guest VM with a
110503 Live Restore did not occur simultaneously for all volumes and could not access the files during the
restore.
110479 Newly created virtual machines did not automatically show up in the Core GUI Virtual Machines list
of ESXi host.
110473 Exchange log truncation was not working for HyperV agentless VMs
109828 When Core services restarted, a "Virtual environment component 'Hypervisor Storage' changed
status to 'Warning" alert was displayed.
108764 When performing a virtual export or a virtual standby and you chose 'Specific' network adapters, the
virtual standby was created with an additional e1000 NIC on top of the one you specified.
Issue Functional
ID Resolved Issue Description Area
109897 Documentation changes made in the 6.4 User Guide did not appear in the 6.4 in- In-product
product help. The changes appear in subsequent releases. help
Issue Functional
ID Resolved Issue Description Area
110075 Linux server unexpectedly rebooted after resizing a specific volume and running a Linux
backup of that volume. protection
Issue Functional
ID Resolved Issue Description Area
110364 There was no ability to open Exchange databases for ESXi agentless VMs due to Agentless
error database does not exist.
Issue
ID Known Issue Description Workaround Functional Area
27309 ESXi virtual export with automatic disk Reduce the number Virtual exports,
93141 mapping using default configuration for of concurrent exports. ESXi
the VM configuration location fails with
unclear error. The Failure Reason is
"Task 'ReconfigVM_Task' failed: Invalid
configuration for device '0'."
110899 On a specific environment, archive check Archiving
failed with "Integrity check
results: checksum errors, dedupe hash
mismatches '0' have been detected."
110887 In the Archive Wizard, the Folder Name
field for cloud location is empty by
default.
110864 While attempting to restore a large BMR
volumne, BMR fails with timeout error or
is unresponsive indefinitely.
110583 In one specific case, metadata recovery
points appears appear inconsistent.
109771 After canceling an ESXi export task Virtual export
when all volumes are in the post-
processing phase, an error message
appears.
109575 On a specific environment, Core No workaround at Core Console UI
Console UI does not load, with the error this time.
"Attempted to read or write protected
memory. This is often an indication that
other memory is corrupt."
109236 Transfer job for VM with SharedVHDX on
SOFS appears to fail with errors
"Session with the id has not been found:
fileTransmitSessionId" and "The process
cannot access the file because it is being
used by another process: " but recovery
points actually are created.
107182 Encryption key does not apply to cluster Select encryption key Encryption
nodes during cluster protection. for nodes manually in
Settings.
106938 On a specific appliance environment, the Contact Quest Appliance, Core
"Storage Hardware" information is not Support for a patch to Console UI
available on the Appliance Health page. resolve this issue.
106545 When upgrading a Core (in languages None available. Installer,
other than English) that protects Disregard the version localization
l glib-2.0
l gobject-2.0
l gvmomi
l iconv
l intl
l libcurl
l libxml2
l vixDiskLibVim
102390 Drive letters are not assigned on an Assign drive letters Virtual exports
exported machine that is identical to the manually, or contact
original machine. Support for a script to
run on the exported
machine that solves
the issue.
97451 Volume letters are not assigned after Assign drive letters BMR, ESXi
BMR for GPT partitions of ESXi manually. agentless
Agentless VM.
Issue Functional
ID Known Issue Description Workaround Area
Issue Functional
ID Known Issue Description Workaround Area
1. Open your registration email. When you first purchase a license from Quest, you receive an email from
the Quest licensing system. The email includes your license entitlements, expiration date (if relevant),
registered email address, and Quest license number. The license number is typically 9 digits, in format
123-456-789. Other formats are supported, as described in the topic "Understanding Rapid Recovery
licenses" in the Rapid Recovery Installation and Upgrade Guide.
l For information about activating your new license and obtaining Rapid Recovery license files for your
Core, see Product licensing in these release notes.
l For information about managing licenses from the Rapid Recovery Core, including uploading license
files to associate them with the Core, see the topic "Managing Rapid Recovery licenses" in the Rapid
Recovery Installation and Upgrade Guide.
l For information about managing license subscriptions and license groups on the license portal, see the
latest edition of the Rapid Recovery License Portal User Guide.
More resources
Additional information is available from the following:
l Technical documentation
l Videos and tutorials
l Knowledge base
l Technical support forum
l Training and certification
l Rapid Recovery License Portal
l Quest Data Protection Portal
l In-product help is available from the Rapid Recovery Core Console by clicking .
l Download from the QorePortal. If you have an active maintenance agreement, you can log into the
QorePortal at https://qoreportal.quest.com. From the top menu, click Settings, and from the left
navigation menu, select Downloads. Here you will have access to installers for various Rapid Recovery
components, including Core, Agent, LMU, DR, and more.
l Download from the License Portal. If you have already registered Rapid Recovery in the Rapid
Recovery License Portal, you can log into that portal at https://licenseportal.com. From the left navigation
menu, click Downloads, and download the appropriate software.
You can also obtain the Rapid Recovery Agent software from within the Rapid Recovery Core Console using
the following methods:
l Protecting machines with the wizard. If the Rapid Recovery Core is installed, you can deploy the Agent
software to the machine you want to protect from the Protect Machine Wizard or the Protect Multiple
Machines Wizard. Using these wizards, you can also choose to add machines to protection using an
older installed version of Agent. For more information about these wizards, see the topics "Protecting a
Machine" and "About protecting multiple machines" in the Rapid Recovery User Guide.
l Use the Deploy Agent Software feature. If the Rapid Recovery Core is installed, you can deploy the
Agent software from the Core to one or multiple machines. This is useful for upgrading Agent to one or
more machines simultaneously. From the Protect drop-down menu on the Rapid Recovery Core
Console, select Deploy Agent Software and complete details in the resulting wizard. For more
information about using this feature, see the topic "Deploying Agent to multiple machines simultaneously
from the Core Console" in the Rapid Recovery User Guide.
l Download Agent or LMU from the Rapid Recovery Core Console. From a network-accessible
Windows machine you want to protect, you can log into the Rapid Recovery Core Console and
download the Agent software. From the icon bar, click More and then select Downloads. From the
Downloads page, you can download the web installer to install Agent or the Local Mount Utility on
Windows machines.
Globalization
This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English configurations, such
as those needed by customers outside of North America. This section does not replace the materials about
supported platforms and configurations found in the Rapid Recovery System Requirements Guide.
This release is Unicode-enabled and supports any character set. In this release, all product components should
be configured to use the same or compatible character encodings and should be installed to use the same
locale and regional options. This release is targeted to support operations in the following regions: North
America, Western Europe and Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Far-East Asia, Japan. It supports
bidirectional writing (Arabic and Hebrew). The release supports Complex Script (Central Asia – India, Thailand).
Multi-language support is available for this product. The user interface for this release is localized to
the following languages: Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Korean, (Brazilian)
Portuguese, Spanish.
This release has the following known capabilities or limitations:
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