Quorum onQ V3.8

Quorum, Inc. announced the availability of onQ v3.8.

This version offers a new features and enhancements – among them, agentless protection for application consistency. With this feature, the company delivers a DR solution that removes the agent from bakup, ensuring customers adhere to regulatory compliance.

Several backup and recovery vendors claim that their solutions are agentless in an effort to distinguish themselves from agent-based solutions. In reality, in order to achieve application consistency, their solutions inject an agent during backup and remove it once backup has finished. Therefore, they cannot be considered truly agentless.

OnQ 3.8 can perform as either agent-based or a truly agentless. Customers have a real choice depending on their management, CPU overhead and compliance needs. The agentless feature provides lower CPU utilisation of the protected VM and easier management in a VMware environment. In addition, agentless enrollment is the only possible solution for systems where persistent agents or dynamic processes are not allowed.

Additional features include:

Enhanced reporting (charts and graphs): Provides real-time and historic data to help users better understand the health of their systems
Recovery Node (RN) start-up dependencies and grouping: Enables users to manage several dependent RNs and ensure that the RN are booted in proper sequence
Protected Node configuration log: A log to support compliance reporting
PN health report (also called PN intelligence data): Helps debug and predict PN issues; delivered as an attachment to the Backup Activity Report (not available for agentless PNs)
Multinetwork and VLAN support for Recovery Nodes: Enables emulation of any production network; users can create complex test networks to test Recovery Nodes
BMR improvements: Volume-level restoration for both Full BMR and incremental options, network configurations for multiple NICs, mount point management, and more

OnQ v3.8 includes additional product enhancements such as UI performance improvements, where the Dashboard tab and other tabs in the onQ Portal for HA, DR, DR Mirror and AV load faster.

“Our version of ‘agentless protection,’ combined with Quorum’s hallmark single-step restoration capability, represents a commitment to innovation that has defined Quorum since its launch,” said Kemal Balioglu, VP, products, Quorum. “We’re dedicated to delivering the very best to our customers, and this release is clear evidence of that.“

OnQ v3.8 (appliance and DRaaS versions) is available.