"Nothing is as constant as change" (Heraclitus of Ephesus). According to this motto SEP sesam is constantly developed further and adapted and optimized to the changing requirements of IT environments. The latest version SEP sesam Grolar offers extensions for virtual environments, now supports 6 hypervisors, new backup targets/technologies both on-premise and in the cloud and offers advanced security options.
Use SEP S3 Cloud Replication to generate a second or a third copy of your backup data which enables
Backup copy with separate EOL
Cheap Cloud Storage
Media Breach
Global Access to the Backup Data
Use S3 to access any local object storage e.g. SES
Ensure data security and performance by
Encrypted connection to S3 via https
Data reduction by efficient SEP Si3 deduplication
Possibility to transfer encrypted data
Reducing the number of S3 transfer calls by Si3 optimization via transfering complete saveset files=> significant cost reduction
Storage Snapshots
Use NetApp Hardware snapshots for backup and restore
Benefits
Automated usage of storage snapshots as backup media
Use Backup Software to trigger and administer HW Snapshots for file system backup
Provide more granular and extremely fast Restore Points
Uses HW API
Functions
Support for NetApp Trigger snapshots
Use snapshots as backup target
Delete snapshots
Migration from the snapshot
Single File Restore from snapshot
Support for ONTAP 8 and 9
Configure as new Data Store type
Authorization
specifying permissions and roles
Benefits
Providing a first multi tenancy concept
Restrict user-based access via Access Control Lists (ACL)
ACLs based on locations or clients. Each location or client could represent a separate customer or organizational unit
Backup admin can
configure users
assign roles
set permissions
Available Roles
ADMIN
OPERATOR
RESTORE
Functions
Permissions will be inherited from previous levels
Users can be packed into user groups
User permissions are also applied to the dashboard
Authentication
Mapping With AD/LDAP
Benefits
Using a unified scheme for the permissions of groups and users
Functions
Mapping of AD/LDAP groups with SEP sesam roles
Can be used for eDirectory and OpenLDAP
Needs DB-based authentication to be activated in SEP sesam
OpenNebula
Backup of Vms from Cloud Management Level
Benefits
First backup software on the market with official OpenNebula support
SEP sesam GUI-based backup and restore of OpenNebula VMs
Functions
Live FULL backup of persistent OpenNebula virtual machines via snapshot
Backup of virtual machine configuration
Simple restore of complete OpenNebula virtual machines
New task type OpenNebula
Using OpenNebulas API and snapshot tools
OpenNebula 5.2.1 with DRBD backend
Simplification & Extensions
small but significant Changes
BSR PRO Customization
Adapt the amount of data to backup via BSR PRO excludes and compression
Security
Default access mode is set to the secure connection method SM_SSH (previously CTRL)
Usability
The DataStore dialog and its workflow has been revised and simplified significantly. Not only because of the new tabs for S3 and NetApp snapshots but especially with respect to media pool and drive handling
WebUI
The self service restore assistant has been enhanced by NDMP, NSS file systems and Kopano single mail restore
Reports
A new toolset called Rhythm has been integrated which provides a programming API to create user-friendly HTML formatted reports which can also be sent via SEPs mailing interfaces
NDMP
Direct access recovery (DAR) is enabled by default
SEP sesam First Steps
You learn step by step everything about the installation, the first backup, as well the navigation on the SEP sesam user interface