Hardware Compatibility

Supported CPU Architectures

The Catalogic DPX Master Server, the Catalogic DPX Client, the DPX management interfaces, and Catalogic vStor support CPUs with the x86-64 architecture.

Tape Libraries, Virtual Tape Libraries, and Standalone Tape Devices

Catalogic DPX supports tape devices that are compliant with the SCSI-2 standard. Tape drives must support variable length records and allow a minimum transfer size of 32 KB. If in doubt, please contact our Catalogic Software Data Protection Technical Support team.

Catalogic DPX supports media changers that are compliant with the SCSI-2 standard. Additionally, media changer support on Microsoft Windows requires Microsoft Windows NT SCSI Pass-Through support from the HBA driver or a vendor-supplied media changer driver supporting Microsoft Windows NT SCSI Pass-Through.

Unless otherwise advised by Catalogic Data Protection Technical Support, the operating system of the Device Server that connects the tape or tape library device should have properly installed drivers that are recommended by the device manufacturer.

No troubleshooting or bug fix support is offered for devices that are no longer supported by the hardware vendor. Minimal troubleshooting and no new development will be done for devices connected to operating systems that are no longer supported by the vendor.

Catalogic DPX treats a Virtual Tape Library (VTL) device as a regular tape library and supports it the same way it does for tape libraries.

Regarding tape media, Catalogic DPX generally supports all tape types endorsed by the tape library vendor.

Note. The LTO Generation 9 (LTO-9) mandates the “initial calibration” for every LTO-9 media cartridge when used for the first time. The media initialization process may take up to 2 hours. New LTO-9 media cartridges must be initialized before using them with Catalogic DPX write operations (labeling and backup).