This guide provides information about hardware and software requirements for Quest® QoreStor™ installation, as well as additional third-party software applications supported for use with QoreStor.
This guide provides information about hardware and software requirements for Quest® QoreStor™ installation, as well as additional third-party software applications supported for use with QoreStor.
The following table lists the documentation available for QoreStor. The documents listed in this table are available on the Quest support website by selecting your specific QoreStor version at:
http://support.quest.com/QoreStor
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QoreStor Installation Guide | Provides information on installation and operation requirements, supported platforms as well as procedures for installing QoreStor. |
QoreStor User Guide | Provides information on configuring and using QoreStor. |
QoreStor Release Notes | Provides the latest information about new features and known issues with a specific product release. |
QoreStor Command Line Reference Guide | Provides information about managing QoreStor data backup and replication operations using the QoreStor command line interface (CLI). |
QoreStor Interoperability Guide | Provides information on supported infrastructure components. |
QoreStor Virtual Machine Deployment Guide | Provides information on deploying the QoreStor virtual machine on VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V. |
Additional whitepapers | Instructions and best practices for configuring additional Quest and third-party applications to work with QoreStor. |
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NOTE: Check for the latest documentation updates and release notes at http://support.quest.com/qorestor. Read the release notes first because they contain the most recently documented information about known issues with a specific product release. |
QoreStor offers direct integration with Quest Software's NetVault® Backup and vRanger®, as well as Veritas NetBackup and Backup Exec. For more information on those products refer to the documents below.
Document | Description |
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NetVault Installation Guide | Provides information about installing and upgrading the NetVault server and client software. |
NetVault Administration Guide | Decribes how to configure and use NetVault to protect your data. This document also provides information on configuring QoreStor repositories and migrating NetVault SmartDisk data to the new QoreStor repository. |
NetVault Release Notes | Provides the latest information about new features and known issues with a specific product release. |
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NOTE: See the complete NetVault documentation at https://support.quest.com/netvault-backup. |
Document | Description |
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vRanger Installation/Upgrade Guide | This document provides information on supported platforms, system requirements, and instructions on installing and upgrading vRanger. |
vRanger User Guide | This document provides information and procedures on configuring and using vRanger to protect virtual and physical environments. |
vRanger Release Notes | This document details the issues resolved in this release, the known issues as of this release, and the third party components in vRanger. |
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NOTE: See the complete vRanger documentation at https://support.quest.com/vranger. |
Document | Description |
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Veritas NetBackup |
For information on Veritas NetBackup, refer to the NetBackup product documentation. |
Veritas Backup Exec |
For information on Veritas Backup Exec, refer to the Backup Exec product documentation. |
The information in this section describes the minimum hardware and software requirements for QoreStor installation.
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NOTE: QoreStor 7.1 requires the nfs-utils, policycoreutils, glibmm24, krb5-libs, libsemanage, libaio, perl, mutt, yum-utils, bind-utils, attr, sqlite, and libxml2 packages to be installed prior to installation. Additionally, for RHEL, CentOS, and Oracle Linux 7.x systems, the screen package is also required. For RHEL/CentOS/OL 8.x systems, libnsl, boost, xmlrpc-c, xmlrpc-c-client, bzip2-devel, rpcbind, and libidn are also required. If they are not installed, the installer will prompt for permission to download and install these packages before installing or upgrading QoreStor. |
QoreStor can be installed in one several installation modes, each with different hardware requirements and expected performance levels. When QoreStor is installed in Object Direct mode, the installation modes available are slightly different and support different capacities.
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NOTE: When QoreStor is installed in Cloud Optimized or Demo mode, Archive tier is not supported. |
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NOTE: For information on available virtual machine configurations, refer to the topic "QoreStor VM Specifications" in Chapter 5. |
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NOTE: When QoreStor is installed in Cloud Optimized mode, Archive tier is not supported. |
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NOTE: When QoreStor is installed in an Object Direct configuration, VTL containers are not supported. |
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NOTE: When QoreStor is installed in an Object Direct configuration, the Demo mode is not available. |
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NOTE: When QoreStor is installed in an Object Direct configuration, the minimum required swap space is 16 GB. |
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NOTE: When QoreStor is installed in an Object Direct configuration, seed import operation is not supported. |
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