What’s New in

Veritas Backup Exec TM 21

Data Protection as it should BE.
Simple, Secure, Unified! Just BE
 

Presenters name and

title
 Release Contents for BE 21
New Content Proliferations

• vSphere 7
• Instance-based Licensing • Windows Server 2019 H2 &
• Deduplication Upgrade Windows 10 H2
• Ransomware Resilience • RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.7,
8 & 8.1 (without AOFO)
• Two-Factor Authentication
• Oracle Linux 8 & 8.1
• VEMS Call Home
• CentOS 6.10 & 7.7 (x64)
• Registry Rebranding
• SLES 12 SP4 & 15 SP1
• 3rd Party Component
Upgrades • Debian 10.0 (x64)
• BEMA v3 • Google Cloud-Seoul
• EV 12.5
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 Agenda

1 Overview

2 Licenses

3 Security

4 Deduplication Upgrade
3 Secure Communication

4 Appendix

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Overview
 Veritas Backup Exec
Simple, Secure, Unified!
for Virtual, Physical and Cloud
environments

“Simply the best backup and recovery solution,

with top platform support and easy management
at a good price”
PC Pro Magazine, September 2019

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Highlight Summary BE 21 – April 6th

Journey to Performance More

Security Cloud Improvements

 2 Factor Authentication  Google Cloud-Seoul  Global  Bronze, Silver, Gold

Deduplication DD12 FETB and Per
 Ransomware  Integrates with Azure Instance
Resilience (v2) Site Recovery.DRaaS  BE Accelerator -
Forever Incremental  Windows Server 2019
 GDPR Guard  AWS Glacier, Glacier version H2
Deep Archive  Resilient Change
 Payment Card Industry Tracking for HyperV  RHEL and Oracle
and TLS 1.2 security  Dedup to Cloud Linux 8/8.1
compliance  Change Block
 Azure Archive Tracking for  VEMS Call Home
 Encryption in flight and VMware
at rest  AWS One Zone-IA  Veritas SaaS Backup
and Intelligent Tier  Instant GRT Reporting Integration

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 Backup Exec 21 – Beta Feedback

• “I had a great awesome experience with Backup Exec 21 beta so far. The
installation was swift and I had it up and running in less than 20 minutes.”

• “With the latest features, Backup Exec is delivering the confidence to

business that they can recover from a ransomware attack. I’m really
impressed by the breadth of features being delivered with the upcoming
version, multi-cloud capabilities, disaster recovery to the cloud, an accelerator
for faster backups.”

• “I mean you are delivering the next generation data protection

experience with Backup Exec 21.”
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Licensing
 Licensing Options – Subscription, Perpetual and Per Instance

B/S/G can
NOT be
combined
with other
License
options

Custom Edition (à la carte)

is available

12, 24, 36 month terms

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 Per Instance License
• A universal metric for a physical, virtual and cloud machine (workload)

• Each workload is treated equally and consumes one instance per license

• ONLY Available for Bronze, Silver and Gold Editions in bundles of 10 instances

Workloads to be Protected Instances

Physical, Virtual or Cloud

Backup Exec Servers 3

Windows Servers and Clients 15
Linux Servers and Clients 7
27 Instances Requires 3 Bundles of 10 instances
Unix Servers 2
Total 27

Depending on the options they want to have, determines

Bronze, Silver or Gold
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 Allocating Instances

Available licenses (Instance or FETB)

can be Allocated to multiple Backup
Exec servers

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 Tiers, Capacity/Capacity Lite Editions (End of Sale)

• Shorten sales cycle Capacity to Gold

• Reduce SKUs by 60% Capacity Gold
FEATURES
1 Front-end TB = 1 Front-end TB

Backup Exec Server  

Capacity Lite to Silver Agent for Windows  
Agent for VMware & Hyper-V  
Capacity Lite Silver Agent for Applications and Databases  
FEATURES
1 Front-end TB = 1 Front-end TB
Agent for Linux and Unix  
Backup Exec Server  
Deduplication Option  
Agent for Windows   Unlimited
Agent for VMware & Hyper-V   Library Expansion Option (LEO)  physical and
virtual drive
Agent for Applications and
  Agent for Remote Media for Linux
Databases
Servers
 
Agent for Linux and Unix   VTL Unlimited Drive Option (VUDO)  
Deduplication Option 
Up to 4 physical
Enterprise Server Option  
Library Expansion Option (LEO) or virtual tape NDMP Option  
drives

Capacity Lite1 Silver Capacity1 Gold

Bundle (License + Maintenance) 2,341.92 2,091.00 Bundle (License + Maintenance) 3,690.00 2,890.50
Renewal 437.92 437.92 Renewal 690.00 690.00

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 Automatic License Download
If an Entitlement ID is entered and the server has an
internet connection:
• Next button will prompt for VEMS credentials
• If VEMS credentials are verified
• SLF will automatically be downloaded and imported

Remove Entitlement <Click Next to

download the license file> to prevent
VEMS credentials prompt

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 VEMS Call Home – auto sync

1. Backup Exec will periodically check for updates

2. If License available, it will download and install

3. Information alert raised on install

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 Supported Upgrades
BE 21

BE 15 BE 16 BE 20

BE 21 CAS can only communicate with BE 20.x MBES Backup Exec Migration Assistant (BEMA) v3
BE 16 or older MBES not supported supports migration to BE 21

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Security
 Ransomware Resilience
To Pay or Not to Pay

Protects data on disc-based storage

from Ransomware attacks in two ways:
• Allows only trusted Backup Exec processes to
write to disc-based storage (introduced in
Backup Exec ִ 20.4)
• Prevents external code from executing Backup
Exec processes (introduced in Backup Exec 21)

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 Storage Lockdown on by Default

Enable/Disable logged in
audit log and event log

Requires credentials for

System Logon Account

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 (2FA)Two- Factor Authentication – Remote Admin

If checkbox is marked then SSO is enabled

by default in Connect window

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 Connecting with Single Sign-On

RAC Connect window displays Single

Sign-on (SSO) checkbox “Connect with the
current user’s credentials”

If SSO checkbox is marked then no

credentials are required to connect

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Deduplication Upgrade
 Deduplication Upgrade Overview

BE 21 upgrades BE 20 from
DD10 to DD12 and BE 16/15 Converts existing deduplication
from DD7 to DD10 then to storage to DD12
DD12

DD12 Uses SHA-2 hash

New installations of Backup
algorithm compared to MD5
Exec include DD12
used in DD10

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Enterprise Server Option
Secure Communications
 Backup Exec Enterprise Server Option

Tape Cloud
BE CAS
VTL Dedupe

MBES MBES

Tape Cloud
Multiple MBES

VTL Dedupe

Active Directory Win Client VMware/Hyper-V Oracle Linux Client Citrix Server

Protected Clients
Agent for Linux Agent for Windows Agent for Windows Agent for Linux Agent for Linux

Perfect for DR & Remote Offices spread across a Region and Scales effectively to ~ 150 MBES
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 Secure CAS-MBES Communications

CAS and MBES use a MessageQ channel for

communications

All MessageQ data and communications are now encrypted

using TLS/SSL communications

SSL connections are established using Backup Exec

certificates that are already available on the CAS and MBES

Encrypted communications can be verified using a network

sniffing tool such as WireShark

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Appendix
 Backup Exec Promotions for FY21
• Distribution Promo – extended

• Competitive Upgrade – valid through FY21

– Bronze, Silver and Gold Perpetual Editions (Per FETB and Per Instance)
– 35% off End User Buy Price
– 30+% off in Margin Builder
– Competitive Upgrade SKUs - New Customers only

• The New Veritas FY21 Margin Builder discount for eligible resellers is:
– 10% Registered
– 15% Silver
– 20% Gold
– 25% Platinum (was previously 20% in Veritas FY20)
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 PMC, ParterNet, Sales Central

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 Take Action Today!

Learn more about Backup Exec at www.backupexec.com

Try Backup Exec Trialware at BackupExec.com, and take for a the test drive

Engage with your Veritas contacts to see how Backup Exec can help
businesses streamline data protection and help lower cost.

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 Backup Exec Family
• Veritas Backup Exec – 60 Day Eval • Veritas System Recovery – 60 Day Eval
– https://www.veritas.com/form/trialware/backup-exec – https://www.veritas.com/protection/system-recovery

• Veritas Backup Exec – Forum • Veritas System Recovery – Forum

– https://vox.veritas.com/t5/Backup-Exec/bd-p/backup-exec – https://vox.veritas.com/t5/System-Recovery/bd-p/system-r
ecovery
• Veritas Backup Exec – Support
• Veritas System Recovery – Support
– https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/dpp.Backu
pExec.html – https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/dpp.Syste
mRecovery.html

• Veritas SaaS Backup – 30 Day Eval

• Veritas Desktop and Laptop Option – 60 Day Eval
– https://www.veritas.com/protection/saas-backup
– https://www.veritas.com/protection/desktop-and-laptop-opti
• Veritas SaaS Backup – Forum on
– https://vox.veritas.com/t5/SaaS-Backup/bd-p/SaaS-Backup • Veritas Desktop and Laptop Option – Forum
• Veritas SaaS Backup – Support – https://vox.veritas.com/t5/System-Recovery/bd-p/system-r
ecovery
– https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/dpp.SaaS
Backup.html • Veritas Desktop and Laptop Option – Support
– https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/dpp.Deskt
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 Hyperlinks for BE
• BE Trial:
https://www.veritas.com/content/trial/en/us/back
up-exec-20
• Updates, Patches and Late Breaking News for
Backup Exec
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.1
00043266.html#Documentation?q=*&undefined
&docRepo=true
• Videos
– Backup Exec Virtual Capabilities
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RKgzyPhFj8
– Backup Exec and the Cloud
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uThVJd60SU
– Backup Exec Instant Cloud Recovery
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpSOOBrWdjE
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– Backup Exec + SaaS Backup for O365 Workloads
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• BE Support :
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/
BackupExec.html
• End of Support for Prior Backup Exec Versions:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.1
00038900.html
• BE Master Compatibility List:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.0
00017788
• Backup Exec Tuning and Performance Guide
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/
doc/40056030-139024710-1
•  Configuring S3-Compatible Cloud Storage for
use with Backup Exec
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/
article.100039077.html
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