Release Notes

EMC NetWorker Module for MEDITECH

Version 9.0.1

Release Notes
302-002-634
REV 01
June 29, 2016
These release notes contain supplemental information about this release of EMC
NetWorker Module for MEDITECH.
Topics include:
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Revision history......................................................................................................... 2
Product description....................................................................................................2
New features and changes......................................................................................... 3
Fixed problems.......................................................................................................... 3
Environment and system requirements...................................................................... 3
Known problems and limitations................................................................................3
Documentation.......................................................................................................... 4
Software media, organization, and files..................................................................... 4
Installation................................................................................................................ 4
Troubleshooting and getting help...............................................................................4

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Revision history
The following table presents the revision history of this document:
Table 1 Revision history

Revision Date
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Description

June 29, 2016 First release of this document for the NetWorker Module for MEDITECH
9.0.1 release.

Product description
The EMC NetWorker Module for MEDITECH 9.0.1 enables you to perform the following
tasks:
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Schedule and manage local replicas of the MEDITECH volumes when you use the
product with the EMC VNX, EMC Symmetrix VMAX, and EMC XtremIO storage
systems

Schedule and manage local and remote replicas of the MEDITECH volumes when you
use the product with VNX, Symmetrix VMAX, and EMC VPLEX and XtremIO along
with the RecoverPoint storage system

Integrate NetWorker with the MEDITECH application to perform the scheduled

backups and create disaster recovery replicas of the data without interrupting the
application

Integrate the product with MEDITECH Backup Facility (MBF) to take hardware or array
point-in-time snapshots to back up the MEDITECH data to the NetWorker devices

Perform Integrated Serverless Backups (ISBs) of the LUNs that VNX, Symmetrix VMAX,
XtremIO, and RecoverPoint support to a NetWorker device, such as tape, Data
Domain, and disk

Perform Integrated Disaster Recovery (IDR) backups to create bookmarks at regular

intervals according to the user-defined schedule on a RecoverPoint appliance, and
validate the bookmarks in the NetWorker Module for MEDITECH GUI

Perform in-frame point-in-time IDR backups by using the VNX's VNX-SNAP, Symmetrix
VMAX's VPSNAP, and XtremIO snapshot features

Perform backups and recoveries in a quick and predictable timeframe

View the backup and recovery information

Perform redirected recoveries of ISB data

NOTICE

In this guide, the term XtremIO if not succeeded by the term with RecoverPoint, indicates
a native XtremIO array. This guide contains the terms XtremIO and XtermIO with
RecoverPoint according to the context.

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New features and changes

The following are the new features and changes in this release of the NetWorker Module
for MEDITECH:
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The NetWorker Module for MEDITECH supports XtremIO to schedule and manage local
replicas of the MEDITECH volumes.

The NetWorker Module for MEDITECH supports redirected recoveries of ISB data.

Fixed problems
The following table lists the problems that have been fixed in this release of the
NetWorker Module for MEDITECH:
Table 2 Fixed problems

Defect
number

Description

240779

The NetWorker Module for MEDITECH backups fail even if one of the RecoverPoint
appliances that is added as a storage device in the GUI does not respond. The
backup failure is regardless of the RecoverPoint appliance's association with the
segments to be backed up.

246350

If you manually enable an image for a RecoverPoint consistency group, and perform
an ISB, the image is disabled because NetWorker Module for MEDITECH takes a
new snapshot, and enables the snapshot to copy the snapshot to media.

244742

When you perform a NetWorker Module for MEDITECH recovery, the Recover
Sessions panel on the Monitoring tab of the EMC NetWorker Administration
window does not display the recovery information. However, the recovery
succeeds.

Environment and system requirements

The EMC NetWorker Module for MEDITECH 9.0.1 Installation and Administration Guide
provides environment and system configurations requirements to operate the NetWorker
Module for MEDITECH.

Known problems and limitations

The following table lists the known problems and limitations in this release of the
NetWorker Module for MEDITECH:
Table 3 Known problems and limitations

Defect
number

Description

Workaround

180531

The NetWorker recover GUI does not support the

NetWorker Module for MEDITECH save set recovery.

Use the NetWorker

Module for MEDITECH
GUI.

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Table 3 Known problems and limitations (continued)

Defect
number

Description

Workaround

194943

The snapshots that are created during the IDR backups

include unintended LUNs, which were not part of the
selected save set, from the same consistency group.
Performing an IDR recovery overwrites the existing LUNs
with the unintended LUNs.

Use the NaviSecCLI

command to recover
only the required
segments.

Also, if a backup fails because of reasons, such as the

disk is offline, either a file server or an MBI server is down,
and so on, you encounter this issue.
254513

Quiesce time for XtremIO segments sometimes can be

more than 5 seconds.

Documentation
The following EMC publications provide additional information:
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EMC NetWorker Module for MEDITECH 9.0.1 Installation and Administration Guide

EMC NetWorker 9.0.1 Installation Guide

EMC NetWorker 9.0.1 Administration Guide

EMC VNX product documentation

EMC Symmetrix VMAX product documentation

EMC RecoverPoint product documentation

EMC VPLEX product documentation

EMC XtremIO product documentation

Software media, organization, and files

The EMC NetWorker Module for MEDITECH 9.0.1 Installation and Administration Guide
provides information about the NetWorker Module for MEDITECH software media,
organization, and files.

Installation
The EMC NetWorker Module for MEDITECH 9.0.1 Installation and Administration Guide
provides information about how to install and uninstall the NetWorker Module for
MEDITECH software.

Troubleshooting and getting help

The EMC support page provides access to licensing information, product documentation,
advisories, and downloads, as well as how-to and troubleshooting information. This

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