Dell PowerVault RD1000 User manual

Dell™ PowerVault™
Compatibility Matrix
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Dell tape solutions are tested with a wide range of platforms, backup software, and media to help ensure trouble-free, reliable performance. This matrix
can help you determine if your tape backup components are compatible. See the Dell Support website at
www.support.dell.com for service and warranty
related items.
Notes, Notices, and Cautions
NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer.
NOTICE: A NOTICE indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem.
CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death.
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Information in this document is subject to change without notice.
© 2006 Dell Inc. All rights reserved.
Reproduction in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden.
Trademarks used in this text: Dell, the DELL logo, PowerEdge, and PowerVault are trademarks of Dell Inc.; EMC is a registered trademark and NetWorker is a trademark of EMC Corporation;
Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries; Novell, SUSE, and NetWare are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. in
the United States and other countries; Red Hat Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc.; CommVault is a registered trademark and Galaxy is a trademark
of CommVault Systems; TapeWare is a registered trademark of Yosemite Technologies, Inc.
Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products. Dell Inc. disclaims any proprietary interest in
trademarks and trade names other than its own.
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Contents
1 Dell™ PowerEdge™ System and Network Area
Storage Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Dell PowerVault™ Tape Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
DDS/DAT Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Travan Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Dell PowerVault Removable Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
RD1000 Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Dell PowerVault Dual Rackable Tape Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
DDS/DAT Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Dell PowerVault AutoLoaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
DDS/DAT Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Dell PowerVault Tape Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2 Backup Software Compatibility —
Microsoft® Windows®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Latest Build and Required Driver Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Dell PowerVault™ Tape Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
DDS/DAT Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Travan Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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Dell PowerVault Removable Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
RD1000 Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Dell PowerVault Dual Rackable Tape Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
DDS/DAT Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Dell PowerVault Autoloaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
DDS/DAT Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Dell PowerVault Libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
3 Backup Software Compatibility — Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Latest Build and Required Driver Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Dell PowerVault™ Tape Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
DDS/DAT Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Travan Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Dell PowerVault Removable Hard drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
RD1000 Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Dell PowerVault Dual Rackable Tape Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
DDS/DAT Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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Dell PowerVault Autoloaders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
DDS/DAT Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Dell PowerVault Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4 Backup Software Compatibility —
Novell®NetWare®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Latest Builds and Required Driver Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Dell PowerVault™ Tape Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
DDS/DAT Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Travan Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Dell PowerVault Removable Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
RD1000 Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Dell PowerVault Dual Rackable Tape Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
DDS/DAT Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Dell PowerVault Autoloaders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
DDS/DAT Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Dell PowerVault Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
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5 Media Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
DLT/VS Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
LTO Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
DDS/DAT Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Travan Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
RD1000 Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
6 Firmware and Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Dell PowerVault™ Tape Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Dell PowerVault Removable Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Dell PowerVault Dual Rackable Tape Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Dell PowerVault Autoloaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Dell PowerVault Libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
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Dell PowerEdge Server and NAS Compatibility 7
Dell™ PowerEdge™ System and Network Area Storage
Compatibility
Legend
NOTE: For the PowerEdge 1650, 2600, and 4600 systems, external tape devices are supported on Channel 2 for RAID/SCSI or SCSI/SCSI onboard controller
configurations.
Dell PowerVault™ Tape Drives
NOTE: See the legend above for the tables on pages 8 to 36.
NOTE: If you purchase a PowerEdge 1950 or 2950 system, ensure that you select the PCI-X riser card to support your Adaptec 39320A card for your tape devices.
1 39160 Controller 14 2940 Controller
2 39320 Controller 15 7892 Controller
3 39320A Controller 16 22320 Controller
4 7899 Onboard Controller 17 Native
5 1030 Onboard Controller 18 29160 Controller
6 1020 Onboard Controller 19 3944 Controller
7 IDE 30 ICH7 SATA Controller
8 Fibre Channel
For additional information, see the Fibre
Channel matrix at: www.emc.com
31 ESB2 SATA Controller
9 7880 Controller 32 ICH5R SATA Controller
10 2940U2W Controller 33 ICH6R SATA Controller
11 2944 Controller 34 HT1000 Controller
for USB 2.0
12 7890 Controller
13 7860 Controller Blank NOT SUPPORTED
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DLT/VS Drives
110T DLT 4000 110T DLT 7000 110T DLT1 110T DLT VS80 110T DLT VS160 110T SDLT 220 110T SDLT 320
PowerEdge 300SC
PowerEdge 400SC
PowerEdge SC420
PowerEdge SC430
PowerEdge SC440
PowerEdge SC1420
PowerEdge 500SC
PowerEdge 600SC 11
PowerEdge 1400SC 1, 4 4 1
PowerEdge SC1425
PowerEdge SC1435
PowerEdge 1500SC 41
PowerEdge 1600SC 41
PowerEdge 2500SC 1, 4 1, 4
PowerEdge 350 1111
PowerEdge 650 1111
PowerEdge 700 1
PowerEdge 750
PowerEdge 800 1
PowerEdge 830 1
PowerEdge 840
PowerEdge 850
PowerEdge 860
PowerEdge 1550 1111
PowerEdge 1650 1, 4 1, 4 1, 4 1, 4
PowerEdge 1750 1,51,51 1,5
PowerEdge 1800 1, 6 1, 6
PowerEdge 1850 1, 6 1 1
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PowerEdge 1855
PowerEdge 1900
PowerEdge 1950 33
PowerEdge 2400 1, 9 1 1, 9 1, 4
PowerEdge 2450 1, 4
PowerEdge 2500 1,41 1,41,41,41,41,4
PowerEdge 2550 1,4111
PowerEdge 2600 1, 5 1, 5 1, 5 1, 5
PowerEdge 2650 1 1111
PowerEdge 2800 1, 5 1, 5 1, 5 1, 5
PowerEdge 2850 1, 5 1, 5 1, 5 1, 5
PowerEdge 2900 33
PowerEdge 2950 33
PowerEdge 3250 1
PowerEdge 4400 1,91,91 1,91 1 1
PowerEdge 4600 1, 12 1, 4, 12 1, 4, 12 1, 12 1, 12
PowerEdge 6300 10, 13 10
PowerEdge 6400 1, 4 1, 4 1, 4 1, 4 1, 4 1, 4 1, 4
PowerEdge 6450 1111
PowerEdge 6600 1, 15 1, 5 1, 15 1, 15
PowerEdge 6650 1, 15 1, 15 1, 15 1, 15
PowerEdge 6800 1, 5 1, 5 1, 5
PowerEdge 6950
PowerEdge 6850 1, 5 1, 5 1, 5
PowerEdge 7250 1, 17
PowerEdge 7150 1111
PowerEdge 8450
110T DLT 4000 110T DLT 7000 110T DLT1 110T DLT VS80 110T DLT VS160 110T SDLT 220 110T SDLT 320
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LTO Drives
Network Area Storage (NAS)
PowerVault 715N 18 18 18 18
PowerVault 725N 1111
PowerVault 745N 11
PowerVault 750N 11, 19 1 1 1 1
PowerVault 755N 111 1
PowerVault 770N 1111
PowerVault 775N 1111
EMC NS500 G
110T LTO-1 110T LTO-2 110T LTO-2-LT 110T LTO-2-L 110T LTO-3 LTO-3-060
PowerEdge 300SC
PowerEdge 400SC
PowerEdge SC420
PowerEdge SC430
PowerEdge SC440
PowerEdge SC1420
PowerEdge 500SC
PowerEdge 600SC
PowerEdge 1400SC
PowerEdge SC1425
PowerEdge SC1435
PowerEdge 1500SC
PowerEdge 1600SC
PowerEdge 2500SC
PowerEdge 350 11
PowerEdge 650 11
PowerEdge 700
110T DLT 4000 110T DLT 7000 110T DLT1 110T DLT VS80 110T DLT VS160 110T SDLT 220 110T SDLT 320
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