HP Storage EBS Compatibility Matrix - February 2012

VM Data Protection Partners
HP
Data Protector
CA
ARCserve
CommVault
Simpana
EMC
NetWorker
IBM
Tivoli Storage
Manager
Symantec
Backup Exec
Symantec
NetBackup
For detailed support see Partner
support websites
HP DP
Virtualization
Support Matrix
CA ARCserve
Compatibility
Matrix
CommVault
Simpana Media
Management
EMC
NetWorker
Software
Compatibility
Guide
IBM TSM
Support for
Virtual
Machines
Symantec
Backup Exec
Software
Compatibility
Symantec
NetBackup in
Virtual
Environments
VM Product
Direct
Attached SCSI
Direct
Attached SAS
FC SAN iSCSI SAN D2D NAS
Citrix XenServer Host
No
Citrix XenServer Guest VM
No
Yes Yes
HPVM Host
Yes No Yes Yes Yes
HPVM Guest VM
Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Hyper-V Host
Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Hyper-V Guest VM
No
Yes
Yes
VMware ESX Host
Yes No
No
1
No
1
No
VMware Guest VM
Yes No No Yes Yes
VMware Consolidated
Backup
Yes No Yes
Yes
Yes
VMware vStorage API for
Data Protection
Yes No Yes
Yes
Yes
NOTES:
1) SAN tape devices (FC and iSCSI) are not supported directly by VMware ESX host. VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) and vStorage API for Data Protection
use a backup server and virtual machine software snapshots to allow FC and iSCSI backups.
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 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.
See Operating System pages for supported HBA's for Windows Server 2003 SP1/SP2/R2
and Windows Server 2008 (Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 are not supported).
FC SAN and shared tape devices are limited to a physical Windows VCB Proxy server.
See Operating System pages for supported HBA's for Windows Server 2003 SP1/SP2/R2
and Windows Server 2008 (Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 are not supported).
FC SAN and shared tape devices are limited to a physical Windows backup server.
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.
HP-UX 11.31 supported interfaces
Tape drive must not be attached to a guest VM while being used by the host.
HP-UX 11.31 supported interfaces
Tape drive must only be attached to a single guest VM at a time.
Windows 2008 Supported interfaces
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.
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. 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
.
No support statement for tape at this time.
HP Storage EBS Compatibility Matrix
Virtual Machine Tape Support
The table below shows tape support for vitualization products and where to get details on supported interfaces.
Support Notes
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