Dell DR Series System Administrator Guide

To better coordinate and integrate OpenStorage Technology (OST) with the DR Series system data storage operations, the following guidelines list the required components and supported operations. For details on the supported operating systems and DMA versions, see the Dell DR Series System Interoperability Guide .

The Dell DR Series system licensing is all-inclusive, so that no additional Dell licensing is required to use OST or the optimized duplication capability. The Dell OST plug-in that gets installed on a supported Linux or Windows media server platform is a free download from Dell. However, Symantec NetBackup requires that you purchase a Symantec OpenStorage Disk Option license. Similarly, Symantec Backup Exec requires that you purchase the Deduplication Option to enable the OST feature.

• OST Media Server Component:
  • An OST server component resides on the DR Series system
  • For Linux media server installations, use the Linux OST plug-in and the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) installer
  • For Windows media server installations, use the Windows OST plug-in and the Microsoft (MSI) installer
• Windows-based OST plug-in
• Linux-based 64-bit OST plug-in
• Supported Symantec OpenStorage (OST) protocol:
  • Symantec, version 9
  • Symantec, version 10
• Supported Symantec DMAs
  • NetBackup
  • Backup Exec
• Supported OST operations
  • Backup (Passthrough writes and Optimized writes)
  • Restore
  • Replication