Requirements

  • Pentium 4 or better

  • 1 GB of RAM minimum

  • 3 GB free hard drive available space on OS drive. Full installation is approximately 300MB

  • Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, TCP/IP network

  • For Image DR: Bootable CD/DVD recorder and CD/DVD media

Backing Up Virtual Machines

The machine that Steelgate is installed on to needs to have connectivity to either the vSphere server or the ESXi server. Steelgate can be installed on the vSphere server itself if preferred. Steelgate can be installed on a Virtual Machine, and currently supports versions 4.0 and above of ESXi and vSphere licensed with the vStorage.


Supported Operating Systems (All systems support 64/32 bit OS’s)*

  • Windows 10

  • Windows 8.1

  • Windows 8

  • Windows 7 SP1

  • Windows Vista SP2

  • Windows XP SP3

  • Windows Server 2012 R2

  • Windows Server 2012 SP1

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

  • Windows Server 2008 SP2

  • Windows Server 2003 SP2

  • Windows Small Business Server 2011

  • Windows Small Business Server 2008 SP2

  • Windows Small Business Server 2003

* Disaster Recovery backups and images do not support any Tablet-based devices.


Supported Applications


Microsoft SQL

  • Microsoft SQL 2014

  • Microsoft SQL 2012 SP1

  • Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 SP2

  • Microsoft SQL 2008 SP3

  • Microsoft SQL 2005 SP4

Microsoft Exchange

  • Microsoft Exchange 2013

  • Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP3

  • Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP3

  • Microsoft Exchange 2003 SP2

Microsoft Hyper-V

  • Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2

  • Microsoft Hyper-V 2012

  • Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2

VMware (with vStorage API)

  • VMware vSphere 6.0

  • VMware vSphere 5.5

  • VMware vSphere 5.1

  • VMware vSphere 5

  • VMware vSphere 4.1

  • VMware vSphere ESXi


Supported Backup Devices and Media


Local

  • SCSI, IDE and SAS Hard Drives

  • External Hard Drives — USB 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0, FireWire

  • Network Storage (SAN, NAS, Mapped Network Drive, UNC path, etc.)

  • CD-R/W, DVD-R/W, DVD+R/W, Blu-Ray/Dual Layer

  • Single Tape Drives

  • All Flash and Thumb Drives

Offsite

  • Steelgate

  • FTP (FTP, SFTP, FTPS)

  • Amazon S3


Disaster Recovery


  • Bootable CD/DVD Recorder and CD/DVD Media is required

  • Local / removable hard drives, NAS devices