Dell PowerVault DL2000 - Manual (Page 6)

Centralized Management
6 October 2008
FEATURES AND BENEFITS OF CASO (CONT.)
Prior Version Support
CASO maintains N-1 backward compatibility with existing Backup Exec and PowerVault
DL Backup-to-Disk deployments in the environment. The Central Admin Server must be
running the latest version of Backup Exec and can manage media servers running the
prior version (N-1) of Backup Exec. For the Central Admin Server to manage (N-1)
versions of Backup Exec, all N-1 versions of Backup Exec must be associated with the
Central Admin Server before the Central Admin Server is updated to the latest version
(N) of Backup Exec.
Figure: Centralized Console