DR365V-HA Setup Guide Introduction
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Introduction
This document is aimed for system administrators who would like to know how to get started
with StoneFly DR365V-HA Appliance. It describes initial steps for launching the appliance.
The StoneFly DR365-HA combines high availability with backup and disaster recovery to ensure
hyper-availability for enterprise mission-critical workloads. Leverage StoneFly’s battle-tested
technology and consolidate all of your server and backup systems into one easy to manage,
simple-to-use and highly available appliance.
This guide gives an overview of the product, rack mounting instructions and initial installation
procedure. Information for using the features of the StoneFusion software is found in the Storage
Concentrator User Guide on the included CD.
StoneFly Resource Library:
https://stonefly.com/resources
The StoneFly SCVM™ Webpage:
https://stonefly.com/hyper-converged/scvm-virtual-storage-appliance
Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for VMware:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/overview.html?ver=95u4
Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for Hyper-V:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/hyperv/overview.html?ver=95u4
Each StoneFly DR365V-HA comes preconfigured with VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V
hypervisor on each cluster node, a StoneFly SCVM™ Virtual Storage Controller on each cluster
node, and Veeam’s Backup and Replication Software running on a second VM. Additional
Virtual Machines can be installed on the DR365V-HA as needed as long as adequate processing
cores and system memory are available to support those VMs. Contact your StoneFly sales
representative for details.
StoneFly DR365V-HA is made of three or more parts: Two Hyperconverged StoneFly
Storage Concentrator (SC) appliances and one or more StoneFly HA RAID Storage
Expansion Arrays.
StoneFly DR365V-HA supports the following backup controller appliances:
Dual 1U Backup Controller, Quad 12Gb SAS Connection
Dual 2U Backup Controller, Quad 12Gb SAS Connection
Dual 1U Backup Controller, Quad 16Gb FC Connection
Dual 2U Backup Controller, Quad 16Gb FC Connection