Compatibility and minimum requirements

Compatibility details and system requirements for IBM Storage Ceph Storage Replication Adapter 1.1.0.

Supported VMware platform

The following VMware platforms are supported for integration:
  • VMware Live Site Recovery (VLSR) (Virtual appliance): 9.0
    Note: VLSR is formerly VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
  • VMware vSphere Web Client: 7.0 U3 or later.
  • All browsers and platforms are supported by vCenter.
  • NVMe over TCP connectivity between vCenter, the appliance, and the storage system.
  • Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) or IP address of vCenters.
  • Credentials for a vCenter user account with administrative permissions.

Supported storage systems

IBM Storage Ceph 9.9.0 or later.

  • Snapshot-based mirroring is supported in IBM Storage Ceph 9.9.0 and later.
  • NVMe-oF stretch cluster configurations are supported in IBM Storage Ceph 9.9.1 and later.

For more information about NVMe-oF requirements, see Ceph NVMe-oF gateway in the IBM Storage Ceph documentation.

For detailed IBM Storage Ceph configuration requirements for IBM Storage Ceph Storage Replication Adapter, see  Preparing the storage environment for SRA.