Storage Integration Requirements

NAKIVO Backup & Replication can be integrated with deduplication appliances including Dell EMC Data Domain, NEC HYDRAstor, and HP StoreOnce (Catalyst) appliances by using an Incremental-with-full-backups repository. Deduplication appliances are servers designed to reduce data size and can be used as backup targets. They operate best with sequential large block I/O from backup software. Therefore, when backing up to a deduplication appliance, it is important to make sure that the architecture of your Backup Repository is optimized for these devices and your backups have a large block I/O. Only by doing this will you be able to maximize your backup speed. NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides advanced integration with the following storage solutions:

Dell-EMC Data Domain

Supported versions:

  • Dell-EMC Data Domain 6.1 - 8.1.0.0

Generic S3-Compatible Object Storage

The following vendors for generic S3-compatible object storage are currently supported:

  • MinIO

  • Ceph

  • Cloudian

  • C2 Object Storage

  • SeaGate LyveCloud

  • IDrive e2

  • OVH Cloud

  • Cubbiit (cubbit.io)

  • Pilvio (pilw.io)

  • VAST Data

  • DigitalOcean

  • Google Cloud Storage

Notes

  • This list only contains vendors that were specifically tested and will be updated as NAKIVO continues to test more vendors.

  • The retention setting for bucket is not required, it can be disabled or set as none

  • Immutability is supported only if object lock and S3 versioning are enabled on the vendor side and are supported by vendor APIs.

  • Immutability is not supported for MinIO, SeaGate LyveCloud, and Google Cloud.

  • Some S3-compatible vendors not listed above may be supported if they use the applicable APIs. The list of APIs used by NAKIVO Backup & Replication for generic S3-compatible object storage functionality can be found here.

HPE StoreOnce with Catalyst Support

Supported versions:

  • HPE StoreOnce 3.18.18

  • HPE StoreOnce 4.2.3

  • HPE StoreOnce 4.3.2

  • HPE StoreOnce 4.3.6

  • HPE StoreOnce 4.3.7

  • HPE StoreOnce 5.1

Integration requirements and limitations:

  • NAKIVO Backup & Replication installed on Windows (x64) and Linux (x64) machines must have HPE StoreOnce Catalyst API Library.

  • HPE StoreOnce Catalyst integration is not supported on devices with ARM7 and ARM64 (AArch64) processors.

Supported Maximums

StoreOnce Model

Maximum Sessions

Maximum Transporter Load

Maximum Recovery Points
VSA

VSA Gen 5

(128+sessions)

 128-256 6 7

VSA Gen 4

(128+sessions)

 128-256 6 7
HPE ProLiant Gen 10 (StoreOnce 4.2.3)
3620 128 6 7
3640 192 6 14
5200 512 10 21
5250 512 10 21
5650 1024 16 30
HPE ProLiant Gen 9 (StoreOnce 3.18.18)
3500 192 6 14
5100 320 10 14
5500 1000 16 30
6600 1024 16 30
HPE ProLiant Gen 8 (StoreOnce 3.18.18)
4500 128 6 7
4700 192 6 14
4900 500 10 21
6500 512 10 21

HPE 3PAR Storage

An HPE 3PAR storage added to the NAKIVO Backup & Replication inventory allows you to back up VMware VMs from HPE 3PAR storage snapshots. For details, refer to HPE 3PAR Storage documentation.

Supported versions:

  • HPE 3PAR OS 3.1.2 and above

HPE Nimble Storage

An HPE Nimble storage device added to the NAKIVO Backup & Replication inventory allows you to back up VMware VMs from HPE Nimble storage snapshots. For details, refer to https://www.hpe.com/us/en/storage/nimble.html.

Supported versions:

  • HPE Nimble OS 5.0.2 and above

HPE Primera Storage

An HPE Primera storage device added to the NAKIVO Backup & Replication inventory allows you to back up VMware VMs from HPE Primera storage snapshots. For details, refer to https://www.hpe.com/us/en/storage/hpe-primera.html.

Supported versions:

  • HPE Primera OS 4.5 and above

HPE Alletra Storage

An HPE Alletra storage device added to the NAKIVO Backup & Replication inventory allows you to back up VMware VMs from HPE Alletra storage snapshots. For details, refer to https://www.hpe.com/us/en/hpe-alletra.html.

Supported versions:

  • HPE Alletra OS 9.4

Supported devices:

  • HPE Alletra 5000 series

  • HPE Alletra 6000 series

  • HPE Alletra 9000 series

  • HPE Alletra MP B10000

Native Tape Support

NAKIVO Backup & Replication supports tape environments with the following configurations:

  • Robotic tape libraries and standalone devices of LTO3 and later generations.

  • AWS Storage Gateway service with a Tape Gateway that functions as a Virtual Tape Library (VTL).

  • FalconStor StorSafe VTL (for VTLs connected to Linux and Windows).

  •  The gateway VM deployed on-premises needs to have the following minimum resources:

    • CPU: x64, 4+ cores

    • RAM: 16+ GB

    • Free Space: 80 GB

  • According to the requirements for Amazon EC2 instances, when deploying the gateway on Amazon EC2, the instance size should be at least 2xlarge for the compute-optimized instance family.

  • The instance type should be c4 or c5 instance types. The 2xlarge instance size or higher can be chosen to meet the required RAM requirements.

  • All physical tape cartridges must have barcodes.

  • Installation is supported on all Windows OS and Linux OS, as listed on the Supported Platforms page.

  • Installation on NAS OS is not supported.

  • The "mtx" and "lsscsi" utilities need to be installed on the Linux transporter server in order to detect the tape library changer.

NEC HYDRAstor

Supported systems:

  • NEC HYDRAstor v5.5.1 - 5.7.1

  • NEC Storage HS Universal Express I/O Module Version v1.8.0 - 1.8.8

NetApp

The feature supports the following NetApp Operating Systems:

  • ONTAP v9.6 and higher

The following NetApp data storage arrays are supported:

  • AFF

  • FAS

The NetApp user must have the admin role.