About this Guide

The Unitrends Administrator’s Guide provides detailed instructions on installation, configuration, and administration of the Unitrends backup solution. The target audience for Unitrends products are system administrators for small, medium, and large companies.

All procedures are run from the Unitrends Administrator Interface (AI), unless otherwise specified. See the following topics for details:

     What’s new in the Administrator’s Guide

     Typographical conventions

     Terminology

     Contacting Unitrends Support

What’s new in the Administrator’s Guide

For the 8.0 release, existing chapters have been updated to include documentation for the new features. For details about these features, see the Unitrends Release Notes. In addition, the documentation for several existing features has also been updated and expanded.

New features

For descriptions of the 8.0 features and instructions for using them, see the following:

     Filtering VMware backup schedules with regular expressions, see Dynamic VMware protection.

     NDMP protection, see Protecting NAS Devices.

     Hyper-V instant recovery, see Instant recovery for Hyper-V.

     Windows instant recovery on Hyper-V, see Requirements and considerations for running a virtual failover client on a Hyper-V server.

     SQL VSS differentials Upgrading SQL to Unitrends version 8.0.

     Hyper-V SMB 3.0 protection, see Protecting Hyper-V virtual machines with storage located on SMB 3.0 shares.