Version 23.0

Feb 1, 2024

Release Overview.

This latest update to the Accelario Virtualization Service marks a significant advancement in our cloud-native capabilities, with a special focus on AWS integration. Key enhancements include a new AWS-cloud-centric mode, integration with AWS FSX OpenZFS system, secure SSH for agent connections, and full support of operations for Golden Images (GIs) and Virtual Databases (VDBs). These improvements are designed to offer our users increased efficiency, security, and adaptability in their cloud-based virtualization tasks.

Detailed feature enhancements:

New Virtualization mode: AWS-cloud-centric

A specialized mode for AWS cloud-native solutions, impacting system features and user interface.

Integration with AWS FSX OpenZFS system

Revamps disk and pool management with new operations for adding and extending file disks for AWS cloud.

Secure SSH for agent connections

All agent communications inside AWS cloud are now secured using SSH, enhancing data transmission security.

Operations for Golden Images (GIs) and virtual databases (VDBs)

GI operations include creation, refreshing, snapshot management, and more, optimized for AWS cloud-centric schema.
VDB operations cover creation, startup, recovery, and snapshot management, along with deletion and stopping processes.

The new features tasks list:

The list of known issues found during the last code freeze:

Testing status:

1. The manual regression tests -  completed 

2. The automated smoke tests -  completed 
   
   

Open

Open

3. The automated regression tests -  completed 
   
   

4. Critical bugs found during regression testing and marked as known issues with fixing in the next sprint:

5. All supported versions have been tested and work as expected:

• ORACLE (AWS cloud-centric mode)

  • RMAN v19 nonDG

• ORACLE (Independent mode)

  • RMAN v12

  • LIVE v12

  • RMAN v19 nonDG

  • RMAN v19 StandBy + same host

  • RMAN v19 RAC-to-single

  • RMAN v19 RAC-to-RAC

  • LIVE v19

  • RDS v19

• PostgreSQL (Independent mode)

  • LIVE v13 ubuntu 20

  • LIVE v13 RHEL/CentOS 7

  • LIVE v13 RHEL/CentOS 8

  • LIVE v14 ubuntu 20

  • LIVE v14 RHEL/CentOS 7

  • LIVE v14 RHEL/CentOS 8

• MSSQL (Independent mode)

  • LIVE v2016 (NFS, ISCSI)

  • Native Backup v2016 (NFS, ISCSI)

  • LIVE v2019 (NFS, ISCSI)

  • Native Backup v2019 (NFS, ISCSI)

  • RDS v2019 (NFS, ISCSI)

Post-release action items

Refer description of action items here