Well! We have some nice enhancements on the vmware field there, and the GUI
has also got some improvements e.g. possibility to browse the filesystem of
clients to create a selection list.

I'm excited to see how the vmware aware networker is going to be.

but:

-When are they goint to fix the big FQDN issue (the need to use shortnames)
?
-When are they going to make it possible to create a nice report like the NW
reporter does. I want to have this from EMC?
-When will it be possible to limit access to mminfo information to certain
clients ?  it's unexcusable that any client can get an mminfo report on any
client.

Does anyone know what will be in Networker 8 that's supposed to be out in Q4
2009? I've found no information about that what so ever.

Wallace

2008/12/23 tkimball <networker-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>

> matharvest wrote:
> > Now we will all have something to do over the Christmas break ... whose
> > going to jump first?
> >
> > New features and changes
> >
> >   [snipped down to features that affect me.  --TSK]
> >
> > Support for Probe-based backups
> > LDAP v3 authentication for Console server users
> > Changes to the Client Backup Configuration Wizard
> > Directed recovery of save sets
> > Script-less command line improvements for cloning
> > Backing up renamed directories
> > Parallelism for backup groups
> > httpd replaces gsttclsh as web server process for NMC
> >
> >
>
>
> Though the above features (kept from your list) are interesting (the probe
> backup is an intriguing RFE that got shoehorned in), this item from the
> release notes gives me serious pause:
>
> LGTsc24548
> Due to a Solaris 10 operating system issue, asynchronous tape input/output
> operations are disabled by default. As a result, some I/O intensive
> operations such as cloning will be slower.
>
> There's also the note that an all LDAPS (SSL LDAP) environment can't run
> the NMC Server on Solaris if you intend to use LDAP.  That could be a
> deal-breaker for now here, and will require clarification with Sun (once
> they have their own media release of course :) ).
>
> There's an additional caveat of course:  This release requires another
> Update enabler license (this would make two for me, if I went this route).
>
> --TSK
>
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