StoreOnce VSA
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QuickSpecs
HPE StoreOnce VSA Software
Standard Features
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Key parameters and resource requirements
Parameter
Value
Form factor
Virtual appliance
Target types (interfaces)
StoreOnce Catalyst: over IP
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& Fibre Channel
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Virtual tape libraries (VTL): over iSCSI
5
& Fibre Channel
6
NAS
5
StoreOnce NFS, StoreOnce CIFS
VTL emulations
D2DBS Generic Libraries: Ultrium-VT, LTO-2 - LTO-7
EML & ESL E Series Libraries: LTO-2 - LTO-7
IBM-TS3500 Libraries: IBM LTO-3 & IBM LTO-5
MSL G3 Series Libraries: LTO-2 - LTO-7
Virtual tape cartridges per VSA
Up to 131,072
Virtual tape cartridges per VTL
Up to 4,096
Host support
Vmware-vSphere
Microsoft Hyper-V*
Note: *Hyper-V support is not currently supported with VSA version 4.2
code
For detailed compatibility information see the StoreOnce support matrix
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NIC support
Per host and hypervisor support
Fibre Channel HBA support
HPE StoreFabric Fibre Channel HBAs using VMDirectPath I/O Passthrough.
For detailed compatibility information see the StoreOnce support matrix
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StoreOnce VSA can be configured to provide the capacity and performance needed to meet your data protection requirements. The
first table below shows the minimum StoreOnce VSA configuration and the incremental resources required to increase
capacity,
performance, stream count and/or the number of backup targets up to the maximum configuration. The second table below shows
resource requirements for some example configurations.
Minimum configuration, maximum configuration and resources needed to scale StoreOnce VSA
Parameter
Minimum
Maximum
To scale from minimum configuration
Local capacity
8
4 TB
9
500 TB
100 MB vRAM per incremental TB
Cloud Bank capacity
8
-
1 PB
100 MB vRAM per TB
Backup performance
10
2 TB/hr
36 TB/hr
1 vCPU + 300 IOPS per incremental TB/hr
Concurrency
16 streams
256 streams
500 MB vRAM per incremental stream
Backup targets
4 stores
32 stores
1 GB vRAM per incremental store
Fan-in ratio
8 sources
8 sources
NOTE:
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IPv4 or IPv6 connection.
6
Fibre Channel data connections supported for VSAs on VMware vSphere hosts only.
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Usable capacity net of deduplication and compression.
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When connected to a license server the minimum licensed capacity is 1 TB.
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This is with StoreOnce Catalyst source side deduplication. Backup performance to a VTL target, StoreOnce NAS target
and Catalyst store with target deduplication is approximately 25% of this. The numbers quoted here are for VMware
vSphere. For StoreOnce VSA in Hyper-V environments performance is up to 25% less.
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The CPUs should be 1.5 GHz or faster. Additional vCPUs should be added in multiples of two.
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Based on 128 KB average read/write sizes. The read/write mix, hypervisor caching and application caching may make the
stated performance achievable with lower storage IOPS. Deploying a StoreOnce VSA provisioned with lower than the
stated storage IOPS should only be done after validation of performance.
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Indicative numbers based on 7,200 rpm SAS HDDs and assuming 150 IOPS per HDD. The number is net of RAID overhead
and spares.