Dell PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance 5.13.0.0 Release Notes for DM5500

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New features

The following features are introduced in this release.

Table 1. New features in Data Manager Appliance Software 5.13.0.0 New Data Manager Appliance Software features
Functional area	Feature description	Summary of benefits
Administration	PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance supports audit logging to track the logging of events and auditing along with capabilities. The PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance Administrator Guide for DM5500 provides more information.	Audit logging enables you to discover access violations, changed or deleted files, failed authentication, and so on. With the Administrator, Security Administrator, and User roles, you can view audit logs to monitor system activity.
Administration	PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance supports Multi-factor authentication feature for the users to login to the UI dashboard by providing the valid OTP. The PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance Security Configuration Guide for DM5500 provides more information.	Multi-factor authentication (MFA) provides additional layers of challenge beyond username and passwords to guard against the risk of stolen credentials. By default, MFA is disabled.
Infrastructure	PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance supports an identity provider which is an abstract source of user and group data that Data Manager Appliance can map to corresponding roles. The PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance Security Configuration Guide for DM5500 provides more information.	The abstraction simplifies user and role management. In addition to the list of supported external identity providers, Data Manager Appliance contains locally defined identity providers for application and operating system users.
Protection	PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance supports the protection of data hosted on Simplified Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Japanese operating systems. The PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance Software Compatibility Guide provides more information.	Enable sales in countries that use assets on non-English operating systems and double-byte asset names.
Hardware	DM5500 includes a SAS HBA card in slot 5 in the back of the server.	DM5500 will support expansion shelves for increased storage capacity in the next release.
System configuration	Re-configure the time and location settings after the initial configuration. The PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance Administrator Guide for DM5500 provides more information.	Enables you to modify the location, time zone, and the NTP server for the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance.
Infrastructure	You can create, associate, and modify Uplinks in PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance for using them on different VLANs. The PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance Administrator Guide for DM5500 provides more information.	Provides the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance connectivity to the users network and enables managing uplinks through the uplink group mechanism.