StarWind Virtual Tape Library Appliance (VTLA)
is ransomware-resilient archival storage for your business-critical data that complements your on-premises environment with public and object storage tiers. Step away from costly tape-centric backup infrastructures in favor of “air-gapped” virtual tapes to ensure that your data archival and retention requirements are always met.
Automatically replicate and tier your data offsite to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Backblaze B2, or any other public cloud storage for maximum storage infrastructure cost-efficiency and data security. Simplify on-premises storage scaling and management with a range of certified industry-standard object storage solutions.
Simplicity
Storage is presented as LTO for easy integration into existing tape-centric backup environments
Meet regulatory requirements easily with secure automated data management policies
Unmanned DR shipping: automatic tiering and replication to the cloud per user-set policies
Features
Shrink backup time and improve RPO using fast disk storage combined with 10/25 GbE connectivity
Get RTO close to zero with instant restores from disk-backed virtual tapes
Protect your data from ransomware and disasters by air-gapping it with VTLA and an offsite copy
Savings
Save on space and resources by replacing physical tape infrastructure with just one appliance
Save money on media storage and shipping by leveraging secure and scalable cloud storage
Save time on implementation: little to no changes required to the existing infrastructure
Partner Certified Solutions
Double Fine Productions achieved higher applications performance without compromising infrastructure management simplicity
Price + Simplicity. StarWind VSAN offers great pricing and allows us to get work done without expensive custom hardware. It also makes getting back online quick and easy after an outage or hardware failure
Aaron Hayes, IT Manager
Models
StarWind VTL Appliance comes in 3 models to fulfill various capacity requirements. Appliance range delivers up to 0.64 PB of effective local capacity with the ability to expand it using cloud and object storage as a cold data tier. VTL appliance also supports connecting physical tape drives and libraries through SAS/SCSI/FC in order to offload the virtual tape images to physical tapes if required. All appliances support data deduplication and compression.
Model3
VTL-160
VTL-320
VTL-640
Usable Capacity, TB
16
32
64
Usable Capacity, TB*
160
320
640
RAID
5 (default); 6; 50, 60, 10;
Operating Protocols
VTL over iSCSI (Optional block and file services: SMB3, NFSv4.1, iSCSI), VTL over FC
Optional: SAS/SCSI/FC
Please check with your StarWind representative for available options
Networking
2x 1 GbE + 2x 10 GbE, Optional 25 GbE
PSU
750W, Redundant
Form Factor
2U Rackmount
*After Deduplication and Compression. Data optimization ratio may vary depending on data nature and deduplication/compression processes happening within the backup software.
StarWind VTL Appliance supports the following backup software:
(Please check with your account manager if the software or version you’re using is not listed below)
Backup Solution
Versions
Acronis Backup
10 – 12.5
ArcServe Backup
11.5 – 17
ArcServe UDP
5.x – 7.0
Bacula
9.2.0 – 9.6.6
Commvault
9.0 – 11.20
EMC AVAMAR (via ADMe)
6.1 – 7.5
EMC NetWorker
7.6 – 19.2
IBM TSM & Spectrum Protect
6.2.2 – 8.1.11
HP DataProtector
7.x – 9.0
Microsoft DPM*
2012 – 2019
Unitrends
9.1 – 10
Veeam Backup & Replication
9.0 – 12.x
Veritas/Symantec BackupExec
12.x – 20.6
Veritas/Symantec NetBackup
6.x – 8.3
Quest NetVault Backup
12.x – 13.x
*Microsoft DPM 2016 may require additional tweaks due known connection stability issues with LTO Tape Libraries.
Management and Security: StarWind Web Management, PowerShell, StarWind Command Center
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