HP Storage EBS Compatibility Matrix - October 2012

Direct
Attached SCSI
Direct
Attached SAS
FC SAN iSCSI SAN D2D NAS
No
No Yes Yes
Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
No No No
Yes
Yes
Yes No
No
1
No
1
No
Yes No No 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 vStorage API for Data Protection
use a backup server and virtual machine software snapshots to allow FC and iSCSI backups.
VMware Consolidated
Backup
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.
VMware vStorage API for
Data Protection
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.
Hyper-V 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.
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.
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 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.
HPVM Host
HP-UX 11.31 supported interfaces
Tape drive 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 must only be attached to a single guest VM at a time.
Hyper-V Host
Windows 2008 Supported interfaces
VM Product Support Notes
Citrix XenServer Host
No support statement for tape at this time.
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
Virtual Machine Tape/VTL/NAS Support
For detailed support see Partner
support websites
HP Data Protector
Virtualization Support Matrix
CA ARCserve Compatibility
Matrix
CommVault Simpana
Media Management
EMC NetWorker Software
Compatibility Guide
HP Storage EBS Compatibility Matrix
Virtual Machine Support
The table below shows tape support for vitualization products and where to get details on supported interfaces.
VM Data Protection Partners
HP
Data Protector
CA
ARCserve
CommVault
Simpana
EMC
NetWorker
IBM
Tivoli Storage Manager
Symantec
Backup Exec
Symantec
NetBackup
October 2012, v1
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