StoreOnce VSA

QuickSpecs
HPE StoreOnce VSA Software
Standard Features
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Federated Management
Up to 100**
StoreOnce systems can be managed from a single console by creating a federation of StoreOnce systems; VSAs and/or
appliances. Any StoreOnce system within the federation can be configured as the federation lead. The federation lead hosts th
e
federated mana
gement console. For management flexibility, a StoreOnce system can be a member of one or more federations. A
system can be a lead in one federation and a member of one or more other federations. Connectivity is required from member sy
stems
to the federatio
n lead system but member systems in a federation do not need to be able to communicate with other member systems.
NOTE:**
With StoreOnce 4.2 or later up to 40 StoreOnce systems can be managed in a federation using a single console. This can
be increased up
to 100 with agreement from HPE. Please make the request via your HPE representative if you want to manage
more than 40 and up to 100 StoreOnce systems in a federation using a single console.
Integrated protection for HPE Primera, HPE 3PAR and HPE Nimble primary storage
Direct backup of the data on HPE Primera, 3PAR and Nimble storage systems is executed using HPE Recovery Manager Central
(RMC) software. RMC is available at zero cost to all owners of HPE Primera, 3PAR and Nimble storage systems with a current su
pport
enti
tlement. The RMC Express Protect feature enables backups from snapshots for high efficiency data protection. BY using RMC
software you get the simplicity and performance of snapshot-based protection to generate application-
consistent recovery points
combined with the reliability and efficiency of deduplicated backups. See the
RMC QuickSpecs
for more information.
Encryption for secure data transmission and storage
StoreOnce
data at rest and data in flight encryption prevents unauthorized access to data on disk and unauthorized access to data
being transmitted between StoreOnce systems. StoreOnce also has a secure erase function to prevent unwanted recovery of expir
ed
or deleted data. For flexibility, these functions can be configured on a data protection application or StoreOnce store basis. Data
in
flight encryption is used to secure links between data centers for StoreOnce low bandwidth Catalyst copies.
NOTE: Data in fligh
t encryption for backup to the StoreOnce VSA over a LAN (typically the connection between the media server
and the StoreOnce VSA) is not supported due to the performance impact of the encryption.
NOTE:
Data in Flight encryption via IPSec is only supported with StoreOnce Catalyst. It is not supported with VTL or StoreOnce
NAS interfaces. The use of IPSec encryption may reduce write performance. Performance reductions reduce after first the first
write
High Availability deployments
To prevent extended interruptions to backup, copy or restore operations in the event of a host failure, StoreOnce VSA can be
deployed
in a VMware vSphere High Availability cluster. To simplify management of StoreOnce VSAs in
a vSphere HA cluster a StoreOnce High
Availability Manager can be deployed. It makes is easy to see the active host(s) and host(s) designated for failover for the
StoreOnce
VSAs in the cluster. Using the High Availability Manager, unavailability due the h
ost failure is limited to minutes with automated
StoreOnce VSA failover from a failed host to a standby host, when using IP and Fibre Channel data connections. The High Avail
ability
Manager is a dedicated virtual appliance available at zero cost from HPE.
All-inclusive, perpetual, capacity-based licensing
StoreOnce VSA licensing is based on usable physical capacity, net of space saving from deduplication and compression. License
s are
perpetual and software updates are available to all users with support
entitlement. All features, except encryption and Cloud Bank
Storage, are included in the capacity licenses.
License server for simplified license management
The standard license mechanism for StoreOnce VSA is to license each StoreOnce VSA individually. For environments with many
StoreOnce VSAs or a dynamic population of StoreOnce VSAs, the AutoPass License Server (APLS) adds flexibility and control ove
r
licens
e management. In an APLS deployment, capacity licenses are added to the APLS in 100 TB increments. This creates a pool of
capacity that is allocated to connected StoreOnce VSAs as required. If a VSA is disconnected from the APLS the license capaci
ty is
returned to pool of capacity.