R1Soft Requirements of High Performance Windows Server Backup and Disaster Recovery Software – Continuous Data Protection Standard Edition

PRODUCT OVERVIEW

Windows CDP Products

Tools

197,041

Quick Links

Home
» Windows CDP
» CDP Standard Edition
» Requirements

Continuous Data Protection® - Standard Edition

Only $299 BUY NOW

Affordable High Performance Disk to Disk Backup Software for Windows Servers

Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) Standard Edition is high performance disk-based backup software for Windows Servers. After completing one initial replica of all your desired data, CDP can complete virtual full Windows server backups in just minutes. Your data is protected at the block-level and unique disk blocks are only stored once across all recovery points increasing storage efficiency of your Windows backups.

Get a Demo Download a 15 Day Trial Request a Quote

CDP Standard Edition for Windows Servers - System Requirements

The following section lists the system requirements for Windows servers using CDP Standard Edition

Hardware

Hardware	Requirements
Physical Memory	Minimum 1GB (2 GB+ Recommended)
Free Disk Space	Minimum 1GB (10 GB+ Recommended) Note: Replication and file restore reports are stored in the installation directory and storage space required depends on how long reporting history is retained and how frequently policies and file restores run
Primary Storage Types	Directly Attached Storage Including: IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS, ISCSI, Fibre Channel, Dynamic Disks (Software RAID), Hardware RAID Solid State Drives (SSD)
File Systems	NTFS (512 byte - 64 KB cluster sizes)
Virtualization	MS Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer 5, Xen Source Hypervisor, VMWare, MS Virtual Server
Disk Safe Locations	Directly Attached Storage, Network Attached Storage Including: IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS, ISCSI, Fibre Channel, Dynamic Disks (Software RAID), Hardware RAID Solid State Drives (SSD) USB Drives, Firewire Windows Network Shares, CIFS
Disk Safe Storage	Minimum 1x Primary Storage* (Recommended 2-4x Primary Storage) *with compression enabled

Windows Operating System

Windows Product	Edition
Windows Server 2008 R2 32-bit (x86) & 64-bit (x64)	R2 Enterprise R2 Standard R2 Datacenter R2 Web Server R2 Server Foundation, Small Business Server
Windows Server 2008 32-bit (x86) & 64-bit (x64)	Enterprise, Standard, Datacenter, Web Server, Storage Server, Core, Server Foundation, Small Business Server
Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V 32-bit (x86) & 64-bit (x64)	One install protects all guests
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V 32-bit (x86) & 64-bit (x64)	One install protects all guests
Windows Server 2003 (SP2+) 32-bit (x86) & 64-bit (x64)	Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Web Edition, Datacenter, Storage Server, Small Business Server
Windows 7 32-bit (x86) & 64-bit (x64)	All Editions
Windows Vista (SP2+) 32-bit (x86) & 64-bit (x64)	All Editions
Windows XP (SP2+) 32-bit (x86) & 64-bit (x64)	All Editions

Virtualization

Technology	Physical Server Install	Guest (Virtual Machine) Install
MS Hyper-V	Yes protects all VHDs (Virtual Machines) with one install using the MS Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Hyper-V Writer Note: R1Soft recommends running the latest service packs and Hyper-V hot fixes to get critical Hyper-V VSS patches from MS	Yes can optionally be installed inside of guest VMs. This is only required for Linux guests.
Citrix XenServer 5	No	Install into guest VMs (domU)
Xen Source Hypervisor	No	Install into guest VMs (domU)
VMWare ESXi	No	Install into guest VMs
VMWare Server	No	Install into guest VMs
VMWare Workstation	No	Install into guest VMs
Parallels Virtuozzo	Yes protects all Virtual Machines with one install using the MS Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Virtuozzo Writer Note: the Virtuozzo VSS Writer has a known issue, it can fail when VMs are disabled	Yes can optionally be installed inside of guest VMs.