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Rubrik reaches version 2.0 in a few short months

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You may be thinking that it has only been a few short months since we first heard from Rubrik as they exited stealth mode, well you would be right. The team at Rubrik must not like to sleep much, because they have been working hard on several small code releases and are proud to announce they have reached version 2.0. This is a big deal for such a young company in a short amount of time.

There are a number of new impressive features in the new version along with an additional to the hardware appliance line. I’ll cover these in more detail below.

 

Version 2.0 Features

Replication – Rubrik will now have replication as part of their feature set. This replication is from site to site or box to box, however you want to say it. Whether I have a single brik or multiples in each site, with replication I can now replicate my protected VMs from site A to site B, as well as still keeping an archive copy in the cloud. This is a highly sought after feature and would be required by most organizations if they plan on adopting and have multiple sites. The replication enablement ties in smoothly with Rubrik’s SLA policies in that you turn on replication at the SLA level and any VMs protected by the policy will be replicated. This is flexible enough that you can replicate from as low as a single VM to every VM and all points in between. And lastly on replication the task is able to remain WAN efficient by taking advantage of global deduplication to reduce the amount of data needing to be sent between sites.

Larger Brik – With the release of 2.0, Rubrik is also announcing the availability of the R348 brik. This model appliance contains nodes that have 8TB drives, versus 4TB drives included in the original appliances. The 348 will allow customers to start with a larger capacity option or with the ability to mix and match briks you can add the type of node that will meet your backup capacity requirements.

AD Integration – The original release only had the ability to use local accounts for authentication. Version 2.0 brings the ability to use Active Directory accounts to authenticate to the Rubrik management interface for managing the appliance and backups. This is a normal progression for young products and is a must for larger organizations, good to se Rubrik checking off the required boxes in a timely fashion.

Swift Support – Since it’s release Rubrik has had the ability to archive backup data to Amazon, with 2.0 you will have the ability to archive to Swift the object based storage from the Openstack project. This will allow customers to archive to local or remote managed Swift storage, or to cloud hosted Swift storage. This is just another destination option for storing your long term archive backups for customers to take advantage of.

Application Aware Backups – This is something that will make a lot of admins and application owners happy. With 2.0 the ability to leverage VSS provider to protect MS SQL, MS Exchange, Active Directory and SharePoint workloads will be welcomed. This is also a major requirement for most organizations when considering a backup solution.

Detailed Reporting – With the new version, Rubrik is improving their ability to inform the admin on what is happening with the solution. The reporting will improve technical detail, active job information and failure reporting along with other data. This is a natural growth path as feedback is taken from customers and testers of the product.

Capacity Planning – There was already reporting on how much space was being consumed via backup data in the first release, with 2.0 Rubrik is improving this data. You will also get insight into daily growth rates and get an estimate on how much capacity is left in the number of days till your current nodes would be filled up. This will allow you to adjust your archive to cloud config or know when to purchase additional capacity.

Compliance Reports – This is a simple way to see which VMs are in or out of compliance with their backup policies. In short do I have VMs that failed or missed a backup, which puts them out of compliance.

Auto Protect – In the first release you would assign VMs to a protection policy and they would be backed up. With this new feature, admins have the ability to apply a policy at the vCenter, Data Center, Folder, Host and cluster levels. This will allow protect any existing or new VMs at that level.

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The 2.0 release is a pretty large update for Rubrik and has some great new features. I look forward to the upgrade and getting some hands on time with the update soon.

 

About Brian Suhr

Brian is a VCDX5-DCV and a Sr. Tech Marketing Engineer at Nutanix and owner of this website. He is active in the VMware community and helps lead the Chicago VMUG group. Specializing in VDI and Cloud project designs. Awarded VMware vExpert status for 2014, 2013, 2012 & 2011. VCP3, VCP5, VCP5-Iaas, VCP-Cloud, VCAP-DTD, VCAP5-DCD, VCAP5-DCA, VCA-DT, VCP5-DT, Cisco UCS Design


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