IDPA: Allowed Point Product Upgrades

The Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) is an all-in-one backup appliance. It reduces the complexity of managing multiple data silos, point solutions, and vendor relationships by simplifying deployment and management. This remains true in its upgrade workflow. However, situations may occur where a component upgrade or a point product upgrade becomes imperative. Specific versioning has been tested to allow compatibility within the appliance.

Therefore, in such scenario, the below table can be followed to understand the approved and supported types of upgrades for point products within the IDPA umbrella.

Also, review the article PowerProtect Data Protection Series Appliances and IDPA: General Security Hardening Best Practices for IDPA version 2.7.7 and 2.7.8 (Log in as registered Dell Support user may be required to view this article)

Before any out of band updates are applied, ensure that IDPA is on the latest version. 
IDPA 2.7.9 is now released. Upgrade to the latest release before applying any out of band upgrades. See PowerProtect Data Protection Software product page for latest Downloads and Drivers. 

Legend: Hotfixes (HFs)

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