User guide

New features and changes
EMC Avamar 7.0 Release Notes 9
Microsoft SharePoint VSS
The Avamar Plug-in for SharePoint VSS adds support for SharePoint Server 2013 in
release 7.0.
Microsoft SQL Server
The Avamar Plug-in for SQL Server includes the following new features and enhancements
in release 7.0 and release 7.0 Service Pack 1:
◆ Avamar release 7.0 Service Pack 1 includes support for Windows 8.1 and Windows
Server 2012.
◆ Enhanced support for SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn availability groups, including
backups on secondary replicas.
◆ Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2012 in Windows Server 2012 cluster
environments.
Microsoft Windows
The Avamar Client for Windows includes the following new features and enhancements in
release 7.0 and release 7.0 Service Pack 1:
◆ Avamar release 7.0 Service Pack 1 includes support for SQL on Windows Server 2012
R2.
◆ Support for file system backups, Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) backups, and Active
Directory backups on Windows Server 2012.
On Windows deduplicated volumes, you can back up and restore files in an optimized
or de-optimized state.
The Avamar Client for Windows also supports file system backups of volumes with the
ReFS file system on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. Backing up open files
present under Reparse Points on ReFS is not supported.
◆ Support for Windows Server 2012 clusters.
Avamar uses a new proxy architecture to back up and restore file system data on
shared storage in a Windows Server 2012 cluster. The shared storage can be a
Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) or a clustered file server for general use.
◆ Support for BMR of UEFI systems.
◆ Support for Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) BMR.
◆ Improved memory use through smaller cache memory requirements, where only cache
related to the current directory is loaded in memory.