Support for Windows Server 2019

Good morning, 

Server 2019  has not been tested or approved for support with Rapid Recovery as of yet.

You may want to try boot in Safe Mode and attempt to uninstall the Agent to get the OS back to being stable.

Keep an eye on our Technical Documents page when a new release is put out. You can check the System Requirements Guide in the future for when Server 2019 becomes officially supported.

support.quest.com/.../technical-documents

considering the initial release date for 2019 was October 2, 2018, can you confirm when it will be supported?

We expect some level of support to come with the next version of Rapid Recovery that is released. We do not currently have a release date, but the hope is that it will be in the next couple of months.

So this comment was made 4 months ago... is 2019 supported yet? It's been close to a year at this point and MS releases their OS builds early to most large vendors so they can work on support well ahead of release (i.e. it has been well more than a year). I see 6.3 was released but I don't see any mention of Server 2019 support...

Yes. 6.3 supports Server 2019 with one limitation.  Page 11 of the release notes for 6.3 says " Rapid Recovery release 6.3 supports Windows Server 2019, except for volumes using the using Resilient File System (ReFS). " Microsoft made some serious changes to REFS in 2019 and we've been working with them in order to get things working.

I recommend reading the release notes and system requirements guide at https://support.quest.com/rapid-recovery/6.3/technical-documents prior to upgrade.

Do we have any idea when full support for Windows Server 2019 (ReFS) & RHEL 8 is ready?

RHEL 8 is slated for our 6.5 release which will hopefully happen in July/August of this year. The Rapid Recovery Team is evaluating the development schedule for REFS support in Server 2019 and a release date should be available soon. 

Hi, it's been a few days now, but ReFS still doesn't seem to be supported?
Is there already a prospect for a new release or do I have to deal seriously with Veeam?

The Rapid Recovery Development team has been working with Microsoft on resolving an outstanding issue with the Rapid Recovery filter driver and a bugcheck in Windows Server 2019 when attaching to an REFS volume. They are close to a final resolution, but we still don’t have specific timeline for resolution. As soon as the fix is ready we plan to publish a patch to make support of REFS available in Server 2019. Thank you for your continued patience.

Thank you for the heads up. Greatly appreciated.

Any issues that arose from supporting rhel/centos 8?