HP Storage EBS Compatibility Matrix - April 2014

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 Consolidated
Backup
2
Yes Yes Yes
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. VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) and 2) Symantec NetBackup VCB support is in NetBackup v7.1 or earlier.
vStorage API for Data Protection use a backup server and virtual machine software snapshots to allow FC and iSCSI backups.
Yes
VMware ESX Host
NoNo
No
1
No
1
No
HP Enterprise BURA Solutions (EBS) 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
CA
ARCserve
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.
IBM TSM
Support for Virtual Machines
Symantec Backup Exec
Software Compatibility
Symantec NetBackup in
Virtual Environments
HP Data Protector
Virtualization Support Matrix
CA ARCserve Compatibility
Matrix
CommVault Simpana
Media Management
EMC NetWorker Software
Compatibility Guide
Virtual Machine Tape/VTL/NAS Support
For detailed support see Partner support
websites
Support Notes
No support statement for tape at this time.
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.
See Operating System pages for supported HBA's for Windows Server 2008 (Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 are not supported).
Fibre Channel SANs and shared tape devices are limited to a physical Windows VCB Proxy server.
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 5.1 Server tape support see the ESXi 5.1 vSphere Storage Guide.