DPX Open Storage Server Installation Considerations

• For new installations, Windows 2012 R2 machine is the minimum version recommended.

• A minimum of 4 GB of available memory is required for new installations; 8 GB or more is recommended.

• A minimum of dual core CPU or two CPUs must be available.

• If you upgraded from an older release such as BEX 3.4, your DPX open storage server continues to be supported.

• Windows x64 is required. Cluster nodes are not supported.

• DPX open storage servers must reside in only one DPX Enterprise and relate to only one master server.

• A single Enterprise can contain multiple DPX open storage servers.

• A DPX open storage server cannot be used for any purpose other than DPX. Additional applications or data on the server might reduce backup performance, which can reduce application performance and might increase the risk of storage data corruption.

• It is not recommended to use the server for DISKDIRECTORY volumes or for reporting applications.

• A highly reliable configuration such as RAID 5 with hot spares is recommended.

• Free space is required on the server. Following are the default behaviors. If free space falls below 30%, a warning is issued. If free space falls below 20%, jobs may fail.

• All storage volumes must be standard uncompressed NTFS. A DPX open storage server is not compatible with NTFS compression.

• Microsoft iSCSI Initiator is required. However, the Microsoft iSCSI target service must not be running. See Installation Components and Considerations.

• Do not use continuous, real-time, or online defragmentation utilities with the server. These utilities can interfere with backup, condense, and restore operations. The server is optimized to manage its files without additional defragmentation.