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Compatibility

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

extensive compatibility testing program assures that your HPELTO Ultrium tape drive works with

leading servers, ope

rating systems, and backup applications - and not just those sold by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HPE LTO

Ultrium tape drives work seamlessly on many platforms, making them especially suitable if you have a mixed system environment

For the latest list of s

ervers, workstations, operating systems, and backup software that support HPE

Ultrium tape drives, check the

tape backup compatibility pages on our Web site at:

http://www.hpe.com/storage/BURAcompatibility

Server Compatibility HPE Ultrium tape drives are supported on the following classes of HPE systems:

• HPE ProLiant DL servers

• HPE ProLiant ML servers

• HPE Integrity servers

• HPE 9000 servers

• HPE AlphaServers

• HPE Inc. workstations

HPE Ultrium tape drives are also supported on server platforms from third-party manufacturers

including:

• Dell

• IBM

• Sun

For details of which tape drive models work with which systems, including third-party systems, visit:

http://www.hpe.com/Storage/BURAcompatibility for the latest hardware compatibility information.

OS Support

Microsoft® Windows, HP

E-UX, Tru64, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, IBM-AIX, Sun Solaris and other

operating systems.

NOTE:

Please visit: http://www.hpe.com/Storage/BURAcompatibility for the latest compatibility

information.

Backup Software

Support

Supported with HP

Data Protector, Yosemite Server Backup, ARCserve Backup, EMC NetWorker, EMC

Retrospect, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Symantec NetBackup

, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec

Backup Exec, BakBone NetVault, Commvault

Simpana, Tolis Group BRU, Archiware P5, Qstar Archive

Manager and others.

NOTE:

Please visit: http://www.hpe.com/Storage/BURAcompatibility for the latest compatibility

information.

SAS Installation HPE SAS tape drives are available as internal and external models. Both models are supplied with SAS

cables that allows you to connect to an internal port (if available) on the embedded SAS controller

inside the server.

Some server models will allow direct connect to a spare SAS connector on the native SAS controller.

Other servers which do not have a spare connector might require you to reconfigure hard disk drive

bays and in a few instances, you may also lose the use of one of the hard disk drive bays and will need

to rebuild your RAID configuration. In these configurations the simple, recommended solution is