Release Announcement

July 7, 2025

  1. AhsayUBS is bundled with the latest version of AhsayCBS v9.

    Starting from AhsayCBS v9.1.0.0 onwards:

    All AhsayCBS installations will have the Ahsay Cloud Backup Suite NFS services installed and running by default listening on ports 111, 1058 and 2049. The NFS service is to facilitate VM Run Direct on AhsayCBS by allowing VMware vCentre/ESXi hosts to directly access the backed up VM files on AhsayCBS User Home as an NFS mount to access the guest VM for recovery.

  2. OpenJDK8 is used by AhsayCBS v9.1.0.0. onwards.
  3. Tomcat v8 is used by AhsayCBS v9.1.0.0 onwards.
  4. AhsayUBS 9 runs only on machines installed with 64bit CPU.

  5. AhsayUBS 9 is supported on VMware ESXi v6.5 or above. As AhsayUBS v9 uses FreeBSD 11.2 and FreeBSD 11.x is only supported on VMware ESXi v6.5 or above.

    For information on compatibility between FreeBSD 11.x and VMware ESXi versions, please refer to the Compatibility Guide.

  6. AhsayUBS 9 includes support for Open VM tools on FreeBSD. For more information, please refer to Open VM Tools Support.
  7. Upgraded ZFS filesystem v5 and ZPOOl storage v28.
  8. Expanded hardware support on FreeBSD 11.2. For more information, please refer to the following: Supported Processors, Supported Disk Controllers and Supported Ethernet Interfaces.
  9. Supports both iSCSI and Additional Storage features.
  10. AhsayUBS 9 supports upgrade from AhsayUBS 2.29 (OBSR v6.29), AhsayUBS 7.17 (AhsayCBS v7.17) or AhsayUBS 8.5 (AhsayCBS v8.5). It is advised that you first upgrade your server to these latest releases and update your clients to matching versions before upgrading to v9.
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