This section lists the supported virtual environments for the DR2000v system.
Introduction
Supported system drive and capacities
Supported hardware for DR series system appliances
Capacities (base unit)
Hard drives (base unit)
Hard drives (expansion unit)
Capacities (expansion unit)
Expansion unit limits
Fibre Channel controllers
RAID controllers
USB flash drive
Network interface controllers
Network cabling
iDRAC Enterprise
Marvell WAM controller
Supported virtual environments for DR2000v
Supported software
Supported backup software
Supported operating systems for iSCSI initiators
Supported operating systems for FC initiators
Supported NAS Filers for NDMP
Supported NAS filers for FC
Network file protocols and backup client operating systems
Supported Web browsers
DR2000v platform limits
DR4300e core supported system limits
DR4300e supported system limits
DR4300 supported system limits
DR6300 supported system limits
DR4000 and DR4100 supported system limits
DR6000 supported system limits
Supported DR Rapid software and components
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Supported virtual environments for DR2000v
Supported virtual environments for DR2000v
Available capacities and OS support
| Platform | 1TiB | 2TiB | 4TiB | 12TiB | 24TiB |
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| ESXi 5.0 | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| ESXi 5.1 | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| ESXi 5.5* | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A |
| ESXi 6.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ESXi 6.5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hyper-V 2008 R2 | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Hyper-V 2012 R2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A |
| Hyper-V 2012 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A |
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Footnotes: * The ESXi 5.5 version is VM hardware 10-based. This means you must use the Web client, and not the vSphere client. | |||||
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NOTE: Capacity for the DR Series system is technically measured in TiB, where 4TiB is equal to 4.398 TB. In the case of the 12 TiB drive, it is equal to 13.194 TB of storage capacity, and for the 24TiB drive, it is equal to 25934.3TB of storage capacity. |
Resource requirements
The following table lists the minimum resource requirements for DR2000v.
| Platform | Disk Capacity | Virtual Network Interface Card (At least e1000) | No. of CPUs | RAM |
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| ESXi 5.0, 5.1 | 1TB, 2TB | 2x1Gig | 4 | 8GB |
| ESXi 5.5 | 1TB, 2TB, 4TB | 2x1Gig | 4 | 8GB |
| 12 TiB | 2x1Gig | 4 | 12GB | |
| ESXi 6.0 | 1TB, 2TB, 4TB | 2x1Gig | 4 | 8GB |
| 12 TiB | 2x1Gig | 4 | 12GB | |
| 24TiB | 2x10Gig | 4 | 16GB | |
| ESXi 6.5 | 1TB, 2TB, 4TB | 2x1Gig | 4 | 8GB |
| 12TiB | 2x1Gig | 4 | 12GB | |
| 24TiB | 2x10Gig | 4 | 16GB | |
| Hyper-V 2008 R2 | 1TB, 2TB | 2x1Gig | 4 | 8GB |
| Hyper-V 2012 R2/2012 | 1TB, 2TB, 4TB | 2x1Gig | 4 | 8GB |
| 12TiB | 2x1Gig | 4 | 12GB |
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NOTE: For the 24TiB capacity, ALB Network bonding is the default setting, and this setting cannot be altered. |
DR2000v expansion unit limits
Expansion units and disk capacity expansion are not supported on the DR2000v.