NDMP Agent: Vendor Support by Feature

The following table lists features supported by each array vendor, as well as any exceptions listed as footnotes below the table.

Libraries and Pools

Feature

Dell

Hitachi NAS (BlueArc)

Huawei OceanStore V3 and V5 Converged Storage

Huawei OceanStor 9000 Storage

Dell EMC VNX / Celerra/VNXE/Unity/PowerStore

Dell EMC Isilon/PowerScale

NetApp and IBM N-Series

NexentaStor

Nexsan

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance

Stratus

NAS-Attached Libraries

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NAS-Attached Drive Pools

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Backup

Feature

Dell

Hitachi NAS (BlueArc)

Huawei OceanStore V3 and V5 Converged Storage

Huawei OceanStor 9000 Storage

Dell EMC VNX / Celerra/VNXE/Unity/PowerStore

Dell EMC Isilon/PowerScale

NetApp and IBM N-Series

NexentaStor

Nexsan

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance

Stratus

Back up External Links

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Hitachi NAS (BlueArc) Revision 12.0 or higher

Back up from Snapshot

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Backup Offline Data

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PowerStore does not support backing up offline data.

Back up Quotas

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Block Back Up

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Cluster Aware Backup (CAB)

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Fast Incremental

tick1

High Deduplication Rates

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Excludes VBB backups

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Excluding SMTape backups

Multiple Streams

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Readahead Processes

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Restartable Backup

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NetApp 7-Mode storage servers only

Snapshot to Backup

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Use Snapshot Rule

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Volume Based Back Up (VBB)

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Dell EMC Unity and PowerStore do not support VBB

1 Supported for Isilon versions between but not including 7.1.1.5 and 7.2.0.0, and above 7.2.0.3, but not including 7.2.1.0.

2 Isilon file servers with OneFS 8.0 and higher can backup individual data paths using multiple streams. See the note for Isilon in Configuring Multiple Streams for Backups.

3 Supported for Isilon version 7.1 and later. The Isilon file server supports restarting multi-stream backups starting with OneFS 9.2.1.

Browse

Feature

Dell

Hitachi NAS (BlueArc)

Huawei OceanStore V3 and V5 Converged Storage

Huawei OceanStor 9000 Storage

Dell EMC VNX / Celerra/VNXE/Unity/PowerStore

Dell EMC Isilon/PowerScale

NetApp and IBM N-Series

NexentaStor

Nexsan

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance

Stratus

Browse from Copies

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Browse the Latest Data

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Page Size

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Specify Browse Path

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Specify Browse Time

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Use MediaAgent

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Restores

Feature

Dell

Hitachi NAS (BlueArc)

Huawei OceanStore V3 and V5 Converged Storage

Huawei OceanStor 9000 Storage

Dell EMC VNX / Celerra/VNXE/Unity/PowerStore

Dell EMC Isilon/PowerScale

NetApp and IBM N-Series

NexentaStor

Nexsan

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance

Stratus

Direct Access Restore

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tick8

tick9

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tick

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Choosing to Overwrite or Not to Overwrite Restores

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Two-Way Restore

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Three-Way Restore

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Choosing Recursive or Non-Recursive Restores

(Other vendors only support recursive restores)

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File System Restore

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8 EMC's Celerra enhanced Direct Access restore of a directory (DDAR) is supported on DARTOS 5.5 and later. Prior to DARTOS 5.5, direct access restore of a directory was supported but not the enhanced version.

9 Direct Access restore of a directory (DDAR) is supported for Isilon OneFS 7.0 and later.

Subclients

Feature

Dell

Hitachi NAS (BlueArc)

Huawei OceanStore V3 and V5 Converged Storage

Huawei OceanStor 9000 Storage

Dell EMC VNX / Celerra/VNXE/Unity/PowerStore

Dell EMC Isilon/PowerScale

NetApp and IBM N-Series

NexentaStor

Nexsan

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance

Stratus

Subclient Content

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Filtering Content

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