Reference Guide

VM Product
Direct
Attached SCSI
Direct
Attached SAS
FC SAN iSCSI SAN
StoreOnce
NAS
StoreOnce
Catalyst
Citrix XenServer Host No
Citrix XenServer
Guest VM
No Yes Yes Yes
HPVM Host Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
HPVM Guest VM Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Hyper-V Host Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Hyper-V Guest VM No No No
Yes
Yes Yes
VMware Guest VM
Yes No No Yes Yes Yes
VMware vStorage API for
Data Protection
Yes Yes Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
NOTES:
1) SAN tape devices (FC and iSCSI) are not supported directly by VMware ESX host. vStorage API for Data Protection
use a backup server and virtual machine software snapshots to allow FC and iSCSI backups.
YesVMware ESX Host NoNo
No
1
No
1
No
HP Data Agile BURA Compatibility Matrix - BackUp, Recovery & Archive
Virtual Machine Support
The table below shows tape support for vitualization products and where to get details on supported interfaces.
HP
Data Protector
arcserve
Backup
CommVault
Simpana
EMC
NetWorker
IBM
Tivoli Storage Manager
Symantec
Backup Exec
Symantec
NetBackup
VM Data Protection Partners
For iSCSI tape devices the iSCSI software initiator must run in the VM operating system.
D2D SAN shares must be accessed directly in the VM operating system, not attached through the hypervisor.
CommVault Simpana
Hyper-V Compatiblity
Virtual Machine Tape/VTL/NAS Support
Support Notes
No support statement for tape at this time.
For detailed support see Partner support
websites
HP Data Protector
Virtualization Support Matrix
arcserve Backup Compatibility
Matrix
Symantec NetBackup in
Virtual Environments
Symantec Backup Exec
Software Compatibility
IBM TSM
Support for Virtual Machines
EMC NetWorker Software
Compatibility Guide
CommVault Simpana
Vmware Compatiblity
Tape drive/media changer must not be attached to a guest VM while being used by the host.
Tape drive/media changer must only be attached to a single guest VM at a time.
See VM data protection partner links above for supported Windows and LINUX operating systems.
Fibre Channel SANs and shared tape devices are limited to a physical backup server.
For iSCSI tape devices and iSCSI media changer devices, the iSCSI software initiator must run in the VM operating system.
D2D NAS shares must be accessed directly in the VM operating system, not attached through the hypervisor.
Direct attached SCSI tape drive is multi target only (no multi LUN) and must only be attached to a single VM at a time.
For iSCSI tape devices and iSCSI media changer devices, the iSCSI software initiator must run in the VM operating system.
D2D NAS shares must be accessed directly in the VM operating system, not attached through the hypervisor.
HP does not test or validate direct attached SCSI tape on VMware guest VMs and does not provide support for tape drives and tape libraries in such
configurations.
Direct attached SCSI tape drive is multi-target only (no multi-LUN) and must not be attached to a VM while being used by the host. HP does not test or
validate direct attached SCSI tape on VMware ESX/ESXi hosts and does not provide support for tape drives and tape libraries in such configurations.
For ESX 4.1 Server tape support see ESX 4.1 Fibre Channel SAN Configuration Guide.
For ESX 5.0 Server tape support see the ESXi 5.0 vSphere Storage Guide.
For ESX 5.5 Server tape support see the ESXi 5.5 vSphere Storage Guide
For ESX 5.1 Server tape support see the ESXi 5.1 vSphere Storage Guide.
Refer to "How to use this Document" on page 2.
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