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 4.1 of ESXi and vSphere licensed with the vStorage APIs. In order to do incremental or differential backups the communication must go through vSphere. The machine that has Steelgate installed on must also have enough local disk space to temporarily hold all the Virtual Machines that will be backed up during one job.

Supported Operating Systems

· Windows SBS 2011
· Windows SBS 2008 SP2
· Windows SBS 2003
· Windows 10
· Windows 8
· Windows 7 SP1 (32/64 Bit)
· Windows Vista SP2 (32/64 Bit)
· Windows Server 2012
· Windows Server 2011
· Windows Server 2008 SP2
· Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
· Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32/64 Bit)
· Windows XP SP3 (32/64 Bit)

Supported Applications

Microsoft SQL

· Microsoft SQL 2012
· Microsoft SQL 2008 R2
· Microsoft SQL 2008 SP2
· Microsoft SQL 2005 SP4

Microsoft Exchange

· Microsoft Exchange 2003 SP2
· Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP3
· Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP2
· Microsoft Server 2013

Virtual Environments - Agentless Backup and Recovery of virtual machines

VMware and Hyper-V

Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012/2011/2008 R2 SP1/2008 SP2/

VMware

vSphere 6.0 /5.0/vSphere 4.x/VMware ESX(i) licensed with the vStorage APIs

You will need Steelgate installed on a supported operating system. The machine that you install Steelgate on to needs to have connectivity to either the vSphere server or the ESX(i) server. Steelgate can be installed on a Virtual Machine also. Version 4.x and 5.0 of ESX(i) and vSphere licensed with the vStorage APIs are the currently supported versions of software that the VMware plug-in for Steelgate will communicate with. In order to do incremental or differential backups the communication must go through vSphere. The machine that has Steelgate installed on it also has to have enough local disk space to temporarily hold all the Virtual Machines that you want to backup in one backup job.

Supported Backup Devices and Media

Steelgate Cloud

· 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
· PC Card (PCMCIA)
· All Flash and Thumb Drives

Image DR

· Bootable CD/DVD Recorder and CD/DVD Media is required
· Local / removable hard drives, NAS devices