Data Protector Express Support Matrix

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Data Protector

10.30 Express Support Matrix

Version: 1.5 Date: April 2019

For the following Data Protector components, only those combinations of Data Protector components,

applications, and operating systems are supported for which the corresponding application versions and

operating system versions are supported by the respective vendors.

For Data Protector Express Supported Devices refer the Device_Support_Matrix document.

For Data Protector Express, EADR is available for Cell Manager System. For supported configuration

refer the DR_SupportMatrix document.

Updates/changes to individual fields within the Matrix will be highlighted in RED.

What’s New

1. Support of Red Hat KVM

2. Support of Nutanix VMware integration

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Table 1: Operating Systems

Supported operating systems

Data Protector component Supported operating systems Cell Manager  Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) (x64)

 Windows Server 2012 (64-bit) (x64)

 Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit) (x64)

 Windows Server 2016 (x64)

 HP-UX (Itanium) 11.311,2

 RHEL3 5.x , 6.x, 7.x (x64)

 CentOS 6.x, 7.x (x64)

 Oracle Linux (OL) 6.x, 7.x (x64)

 SLES 11, 12 (x64)

Installation Server  Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) (x64)

 RHEL3 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x (x64)

 CentOS 6.x, 7.x (x64)

 SLES 11, 12 (x64)

Manager-of-Managers (MoM)  Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) (x64)

 CentOS 6.x, 7.x (x64)

 RHEL4 5.x , 6.x, and 7.x (x64)

 SLES 11, 12 (x64)

Reporting Server18  Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit) (x64)

 CentOS 6.x, 7.x (x64)

 RHEL6.x, 7.x (x64)

 SLES 12 (x64) Backup device server (Media Agent),

including robotic control

 Windows Server 2008 Core (32 bit, 64-bit) (x64)

 Windows Server 2008 R2 Core (64-bit) (x64)

 Windows Server 2012 Core (x64)

 Windows Server 2012 R2 Core (x64)

 Novell Open Enterprise Server 11.x for Linux (64-bit)

 Novell Open Enterprise Server 2015 for Linux (64-bit)

 HP-UX (PA-RISC) 11.111,2, 11.231,2, 11.311,2

 HP-UX (Itanium) 11.231,2, 11.311,2

 Sun Solaris (SPARC) 10, 11

 Sun Solaris 10, 11 (x86 and x64)

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Data Protector component Supported operating systems SLES 11

Oracle Linux, 5.x and 6.x CentOS 5.x and 6.x

 Linux (64-bit): RHEL3 5.x (Itanium, x64), 6.x, 7.x (x64) SLES 11 (Itanium, x64)

SLES 12 (x64)

Oracle Linux (OL) 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x (x64) CentOS 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x (x64)

Scientific Linux 6.x (x64) Fedora 26 (x64) Backup device server (Media Agent),

without robotic control

All of the above and the following:

 IBM AIX 6.x, 7.1, 7.2 Backup device server (Media Agent),

including robotic control using LTO drive based encryption (AES-GCM)

 Windows Server 2008 (32-bit)

 HP-UX (PA-RISC) 11.111,2_{, 11.23}1,2_{, 11.31}1,2

 HP-UX (Itanium) 11.231,2, 11.311,2

 Linux (32-bit): RHEL3 5.x and 6.x SLES 11

Oracle Linux (OL) 5.x and 6.x CentOS 5.x and 6.x

 Linux (64-bit): RHEL3 5.x (Itanium, x64) RHEL3 6.x, 7.x (x64) SLES 11 (Itanium, x64)

SLES 12 (x64), SLES 12 for SAP Applications (x64)

Oracle Linux (OL) 5.x, 6.x, 7.x (x64)

CentOS 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x (x64) Data Protector StoreOnce B2D

Software Store

 Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2 (64-bit)(x64)

 Linux (64-bit): RHEL3_{5.x, 6.x, 7.x (x64)} SLES 11, 12 (x64)

Oracle Linux (OL) 6.x, 7.x (x64) CentOS 6.x, 7.x (x64)

StoreOnce Application Source and Backup Server Deduplication using Catalyst5,6

 Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2 (64-bit) (x64), Windows Server 2016 (x64)

 HP-UX (Itanium) 11.231,7, 11.311,7

 Solaris (SPARC) 10, 11 (64-bit)

 AIX 6.1, 7.1 (64-bit)8,7.2( 64-bit)8

 Linux (64-bit) RHEL3 5.x, 6.x, 7.x (x64)

SLES 11, 12 (x64), SLES 12 for SAP Applications (x64) Oracle Linux (OL) 6.x, 7.x (x64)

CentOS 6.x, 7.x (x64) Fedora 26 (x64) EMC Data Domain Boost Application

Source and Backup Server Deduplication9

 Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R214_{(64-bit) (x64)}

 HP-UX (Itanium) 11.3110

 AIX 7.1 (64-bit)11, 7.2 (64-bit)11

 Solaris (SPARC) 10, 11 (64-bit)12

 Linux (64-bit): RHEL 5.x, 6.x and 7.x (x64)

SLES 11, and 12 (x64), SLES 12 for SAP Applications (x64) Oracle Linux (OL) 6.x, 7.x (x64)

CentOS 6.x, 7.x (x64)

Smart Cache Backup Server 13,14,15  Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2 (64-bit)(x64)

 Linux (64-bit): RHEL 5.x, 6.x and 7.x (x64)

SLES 11 (x64), SLES 12 for SAP Applications (x64) Oracle Linux (OL) 6.x and 7.x (x64)

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Data Protector component Supported operating systems Cloud (AWS S3 and Amazon S3

compatible Ceph and Scality) Device 16,17

 Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019 (64bit) (x64)

 Linux (64bit): RHEL 6.x, 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2 (x64)

SLES 11(x64), 12 (x64), 12 for SAP Applications (x64) Oracle Linux (OL) 6.x (x64)

CentOS 6.x (x64) Fedora 26 (x64)

Cloud (Azure) Device 16  Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2019 (64-bit) (x64)

 Linux (64-bit): RHEL 5.x and 6.x (x64)

SLES 11 (x64), 12 (x64), 12 for SAP Applications (x64) Oracle Linux (OL) 6.x (x64)

CentOS 6.x (x64) Fedora 26 (x64) 1 HP-UX 11.11 on PA-RISC 1.1 (32bit) is not supported.

HP-UX 11.23 is HP-UX 11i version 2.0. HP-UX 11.31 is HP-UX 11i version 3.0. 2 NIS+ is supported in a DNS environment.

3 Includes support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation and Enterprise Server if applicable. 4 Push installation not possible, need to be installed locally.

5 Supports StoreOnce software version 4.1 and earlier (CloudBank support from 3.18). For information on the StoreOnce Backup systems and features supported by this StoreOnce software version, see the BURA Compatibility Matrix available at

www.hpe.com/storage/BURACompatibility.

6 StoreOnce system Catalyst version 3.16.x and later releases support replication over Fibre Channel (FC). 7 Backup to the Data Protector StoreOnce Software store is not supported.

8 Support for StoreOnce Catalyst version 4.1 and earlier over Fibre Channel (FC) with AIX platform requires to have dedicated ports for every StoreOnce node. For more information, see StoreOnce documentation.

9 Supported for DDOS versions 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 6.0 and 6.1.

10 DD OS 6.0 and 6.1 is supported only for CIFS, NAS and VTL. LTO-5 is not supported with DD OS 6.1.

11 Data Domain Boost devices configured on AIX using the Fibre Channel (FC) protocol supports only one Data Protector connection per SAN path or Data Domain end point. Due to this, AIX gateways using the Fibre Channel interface automatically get their ‘Max. Number of Parallel connections per Gateway’ parameter set to 1. Operations such as consolidation and replication need multiple connections per operation and will not succeed with this configuration. If additional SAN paths are added, then the AIX server’s gateway settings should be modified to allow these operations to succeed.

12 The Fibre Channel (FC) protocol is not supported for DDOS versions 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, and 5.7. FC protocol is supported on Solaris 11 (SPARC) for DDOS version 6.0 and newer.

13 Supports all NAS and SAN devices using CFS and NFS shares, and SAN devices using the local FS mount. 14 Device on Microsoft Azure StoreSimple is supported via Smart Cache device.

15 A Smart Cache device is not supported on a virtual node in a clustered environment.

16 Object copy to the Cloud device (Microsoft Azure blob storage, HPE Helion object stores and S3 object storage) is supported. Direct backup to Cloud device is supported on Microsoft Azure blob storage and S3 object storage only. 17 Supported targets must comply with Amazon Signature Version 4 requirements.

18 Reporting server can’t be installed on Data Protector Cell Manager / Installation server / Client. It needs to be installed on a separate server

Table 2: CLI Platforms and Localization

Supported CLI platforms and localization

Operating system Supported local languages

Windows  English

 French

 Japanese

 Simplified Chinese

HP-UX  English

 French

 Japanese

Solaris  English

Linux  English

 French

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IBM AIX _ _English

Novell Open Enterprise Server  English

Cluster support: Table 3 shows the cluster support for the Cell Manager component. All other agents

are supported in a clustered environment on a particular platform, unless specifically called out in the

table.

Table 3: Clusters

Supported clusters5,6

Cluster software Supported cluster software version HPE MC/ServiceGuard (including

Veritas CFS)

 HPE MC/ServiceGuard 11.1x HP-UX 11.31 (PA-RISC, Itanium)

 HPE MC/ServiceGuard 11.2x 1 _{HP-UX 11.31 (PA-RISC, Itanium)}

 HPE MC/ServiceGuard 12.00.x for Linux RHEL 6.x (x64), SLES 11 (x64), RHEL 7 (x64), SLES 12 (x64)

 HPE MC/ServiceGuard 11.2x for Linux 2, 4 RHEL 5.x, 6.x, 7.x (x64), SLES 11 Microsoft Cluster Server  Microsoft Failover Cluster 3 Windows Server 2008 (32-bit)

Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) (x64) Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) (x64) Windows Server 2012 (64-bit) (x64) Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit) (x64) Windows Server 2016 (64-bit) (x64) Windows Server 2019 (64-bit) (x64) Veritas Cluster Server  Veritas Cluster Server 5.1 Windows 2008 R2 (64bit)(x64)

HP-UX 11.31 (Itanium) RHEL 5.x, 6.0, 6.3 (x64) SLES 11 (x64)

 Veritas Cluster Server 6.2 RHEL 6.6 (x64)

1 For HPE MC/ServiceGuard 11.20, cluster wide device special files (cDSFs) are supported.

2 Procedures for installing and configuring Data Protector on MC/ServiceGuard with Linux are available in the Data Protector Help. Zero Downtime Backup with SMIS Agent is not supported.

3 Includes support for Cell Manager on ‘Majority Node Cluster’.

4 With HPE MC/ServiceGuard A.11.20.20 on Linux the CONFIGURATION backup needs to be excluded from the backup specification. BMDR is not supported.

5 Data Protector supports clustering provided through native operating system as long as OS support is listed in this document for the specific Data Protector component

6 StoreOnceSoftware Agent is not supported in cluster environment

Table 4: Data Protector Virtual Environment Protection Agent (VEPA)

Supported platforms for Data Protector and VMware VDDK component1,2,3

Data Protector

versions VMware VDDK component Supported backup / mount proxy operating systems 10.10  VDDK 6.5 U1 Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)

Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 (x64) Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2019 (x64) RHEL 6.7, 6.8, 7.2, 7.3 (x64) 4,5,6 SLES 11.4, 12.1 (x64) 4,5,6 10.20, 10.30  VDDK 6.7 U1 Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)

Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 (x64) Windows Server 2016

CentOS 7.4 (x64) 4,5,6

RHEL 6.7, 6.8, 7.2, 7.3 (x64) 4,5,6 SLES 12.1 (x64) 4,5,6

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1 _{Data Protector supports guest operating systems that are supported by the respective operating system vendor and are} supported as a guest operating system by VMware.

2 _{GPT disks are supported for Backup and Restore.} 3 _{Data Protector does not support backup of SATA disks.}

4 _{Supported partition type for GRE: Linux partition (ID 83), Linux LVM partition (ID 8E).}

5 _{Linux mount proxy does not support granular recovery of ownership, ACLs, file attributes, and alternate data streams for files} and folder in Windows guest virtual machine.

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File System

Mount Proxy Operating System RHEL

6.6,6.7,6.8

RHEL 7,7.1,7.2,7.3

SLES 11.3

SLES 12, 12.1

CentOS 7.4

ext2     

ext3     

ext4   -  

Reiserfs - -   -

Xfs     

ntfs6 _ _ _ _ _

Table 5: VMware vCenter support

VMware vCenter support for Data Protector 10.0x1,2,3,4,6

VMware vCenter Server 6.05_,_{6.0 U1}5_{, 6.0 U2}5_{, 6.0 U3}5_{, 6.5}5_{, 6.5 U1}5_{, 6.5 U2}5_{, 6.7, 6.7 U1}5

VMware Virtual Server Appliance 6.05_{, 6.0 U1}5_{, 6.0 U2}5_{, 6.0 U3}5_{, 6.5}5_{, 6.5 U1}5_{, 6.5 U2}5_{, 6.7, 6.7 U1}5

1 Data Protector supports only the above mentioned VMware vCenter versions.

The ESXi Servers supported by these VMware vCenter versions are supported as Data Protector Application clients. 2 For the respective ESX Server support, refer to the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix using the following link:

https://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/sim/interop_matrix.php. 3 Data Protector does not support free ESXi licenses.

4 Raw Disk Mappings is supported with VADP based backups in virtual mode but not supported in physical mode. 5 VMware VVol (Virtual Volumes) are supported for VMs that are hosted on 3PAR VVol only.

6 Data Protector supports the backup of encrypted VMs (non-ZDB mode only). Such VMs will be restored in an unencrypted manner. Advanced operations such as Granular Recovery, Power On and Live Migrate are currently not supported. Encrypted VMs backup is not supported with vCenter 6.7, 6.7 U1.

Table 6: Data Protector Virtual Environment Agent platform support

Data Protector Virtual Environment Agent platform support1,2

Data Protector components Platforms Supported backup / mount proxy operating systems

Virtual Environment Agent  H3C CAS 5.0(E0522) Windows Server 2008 (x64)

Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64) Windows Server 2012 (x64) Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64) RHEL 6.x, 7.x (x64)

Cent OS 6.x, 7.x (x64) SLES 11.x, 12.x (x64)

1 Data Protector supports guest operating systems that are supported by the respective operating system vendor and are supported as a guest operating system by VMware.

2 GPT disks are supported for Backup and Restore.

Table 7: Granular Recovery Extension for VMware vSphere

Granular Recovery Extension (GRE) for VMware vSphere 1, 2

Data Protector

component VMware component Supported VMware versions 3

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Granular Recovery Extension for VMware vSphere Web Client

 VMware vCenter Server4_{6.0, 6.0 U1, 6.0 U2, 6.0 U3, 6.5 U1, 6.5 U2, 6.7, 6.7 U1}

 VMware Server Appliance (VSA) 6.0, 6.0 U1, 6.0 U2, 6.0 U3, 6.5 U1, 6.5 U2, 6.7, 6.7 U1

1 For Cached GRE using Smart Cache, mount proxy and backup server should be the same host (for NAS devices). 2 Cached GRE is supported for 3PAR snapshots with Advanced GRE Web Plug-in on Windows vCenter and Linux VSA. 3 Data Protector Advanced GRE Web Plug-in is supported only on vCenter Server / VSA version 6.0 or higher.

4 Supported only for vSphere Web Client 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7.

Data Protector supports the following virtualization application-specific features, which enable VSS snapshots for instant recovery without an agent inside the VMs.

Table 8: HPE SimpliVity Storage

Supported configurations – HPE SimpliVity Storage1

Hypervisor Backup Restore Power On and Live Migrate GRE

VMware 6.5, 6.5 U1 Supported Supported Supported Supported

1. Supported HPE SimpliVity Storage version is 3.7.0

Table 9: HPE 3PAR

Supported configurations 1,3

Hypervisor Single-host Local Copy2 _{Remote Copy}2,4

VMware ESXi 6.0, 6,5U1, 6.5 U2, 6.7, 6.7 U1 ZDB +Restore ZDB + Restore

For more information on supportability of 3PAR versions, refer the Data Protector Support Matrix HP3PAR_SupportMatrix available at https://docs.microfocus.com/?DP

1 VMware VVol (Virtual Volumes) is not supported.

2 Virtual Machine restore from a snapshot, Cached GRE, Power On, and Live Migrate is supported.

3 ZDB operations are not supported for vStorage Image + OpenStack backup method with Virtual Environment Agent. 4 Not supported on 3PAR 3.3.1

Table 10: HPE StoreOnce Recovery Manager Central

Supported configurations 1

Hypervisor Backup Restore Power On and Live Migrate GRE

VMware 6.0, 6.0 U2, 6.5 U1, 6.5 U2

Snapshot Snapshot+Tape Express Protect

Snapshot+Tape2

Snapshot+Tape3

1 StoreOnce Recovery Manager Central version 1.2, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and 4.1 is supported.

2 Supported only if the secondary storage devices are Smart Cache and StoreOnce Catalyst devices. 3 Cached GRE supported only from Smart Cache and StoreOnce Catalyst devices.

Data Protector supports the following virtualization application-specific features, which enable VSS snapshots for instant recovery without an agent inside the VMs.

Table 11: Virtualization application integration

Virtualization application integration support

Virtualization application Data Protector component Supported application components Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008,

2008 R21

MS Volume Shadow Copy Integration

 VSS based snapshots of VMs Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008,

2008 R21

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Microsoft Hyper-V Server 20121_, 2012 R21

Virtual Environment Agent  VSS based snapshots of VMs (cluster aware) Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 Virtual Environment Agent  VSS based snapshots of VMs (cluster aware) 1 Instant recovery for Hyper-V VSS snapshots is done using the SMIS-A agent.

The VSS transportable backups are supported by installing the respective array agent (SMI-S / SSEA) and VSS agents inside the virtual machines running the applications

.

For all supported VSS configurations for virtual environments (inside virtual machines), refer to the respective Data Protector premium VSS Integration Support Matrix. 1, 2, 3

1 For VMware application on HPE P6000 EVA Disk Array Family, HPE P9000 XP Disk Array Family and HPE 3PAR Storage Systems, only the FC Protocol and the RDM configuration are supported.

2 For Microsoft Hyper-V application on HPE P6000 EVA Disk Array Family and HPE 3PAR Storage Systems, only the FC Protocol and the Hyper-V pass through configuration are supported.

3 For VMware application on HPE 3PAR Storage Systems, IR is not supported.

Table 12: Supported configurations – H3C CAS

Supported configurations

Integration Backup Restore Power On and Live Migrate GRE

H3C CAS 5.0(E0522) Supported Supported Not Supported Not Supported

Table 13: Supported configurations – Red Hat KVM Supported configurations

KVM 1.4.x Supported Supported Not Supported Not Supported

Table 14: Supported configurations – Nutanix vCenter Supported configurations