HP Storage EBS Compatibility Matrix - March 2014

Direct
Attached SCSI
Direct
Attached SAS
FC SAN iSCSI SAN
StoreOnce
NAS
StoreOnce
Catalyst
No
No Yes Yes Yes
Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
No No No
Yes
Yes Yes
Yes No
No
1
No
1
No No
Yes No No Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes
Yes
Yes Yes
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 v7.1 or earlier.
vStorage API for Data Protection use a backup server and virtual machine software snapshots to allow FC and iSCSI backups.
HP StoreOnce and StoreEver Enterprise Backup Solutions (EBS) Hardware/Software Compatibility Matrix
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
Citrix XenServer
Guest VM
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
VM Product Support Notes
Citrix XenServer Host
No support statement for tape at this time.
VMware vStorage API for
Data Protection
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.
Hyper-V Guest VM
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.
VMware ESX Host
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
. For ESX 5.1 Server tape support see the ESXi 5.1 vSphere Storage Guide.
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.
VMware Guest VM
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.
VMware Consolidated
Backup
2
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.
HPVM Host
HP-UX 11.31 supported interfaces
Tape drive/media changer must not be attached to a guest VM while being used by the host.
HPVM Guest VM
HP-UX 11.31 supported interfaces
Tape drive/media changer must only be attached to a single guest VM at a time.
Hyper-V Host
Windows 2012 Supported Interfaces
Windows 2008 R2 Supported Interfaces
Windows 2008 Supported Interfaces
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