System requirements

Hypervisor requirements

With SSMC virtual appliance, HPE supports deployment of SSMC on only hypervisors (not operating systems). The following hypervisors are supported:

  • VMware ESXi 6.0, VMware ESXi 6.5 U1 and later, and VMware ESXi 6.7 U1, VMware ESXi 7.0, and later.

  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019.

Software requirements

  • HPE Storage Operating System 3.2.2 or later.

  • Peer Motion, Storage Federation, and Online Import licenses.

    IMPORTANT:

    A storage federation can be managed by a single SSMC instance only.

  • Cabling and port configuration requirements (see Hewlett Packard Enterprise Support Center).

  • For information on server sizing, see Server sizing information.

  • HPE Recovery Manager Central (RMC) compatibility with HPE SSMC requires the following prerequisites to be met:

    • Install HPE Storage Operating System 3.2.2 or later.

    • Configure SSMC and RMC on the same HPE Storage System.

    • Verify that SSMC can connect to RMC using HTTP.

    • Create protection policies in RMC.

NOTE:

  • You can add up to four HPE RMC instances through RMC Credentials in HPE SSMC.

  • HPE 3PAR storage system supports RMC 4.1, 5.x.x, and 6.0 and above.

  • HPE Primera Storage system supports RMC 6.2 and above.

  • Upon creating a number of identical virtual volumes (value between 1 and 999), you can apply HPE RMC protection policy on these volumes. If you remove the protection policy for a virtual volume in this identical virtual volume set, then the policy is removed for all other virtual volumes in the set.

For more information, see HPE Recover Manager Central documentation in the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Support Center.