FALCONSTOR CDP/NSS AND STORGUARD (FSS)
This page displays the operating systems that have been certified for FalconStor StorGuard (FSS) and CDP/NSS servers, host clients, and FalconStor host agents that protect various third-party application and databases.
For information about operating systems certified with previous FalconStor product versions, check our Archived Certified Operating Systems page.
For information about software certified with previous FalconStor product versions, check our Archived Certified Third-Party Applications and Databases page.
| FalconStor Product | Certified Operating System |
| StorGuard/CDP/NSS 9.02 | Red Hat, Oracle, CentOS Enterprise Linux 7.9 Kernel 3.10.0-1160.xx.x.el7.x86_64 |
| StorGuard/CDP/NSS 9.01 | Red Hat, Oracle, CentOS Enterprise Linux 7.6 Kernel 3.10.0-957.x.x.el7.x86_64 |
| StorGuard/CDP/NSS 9.00 | Red Hat, Oracle, CentOS Enterprise Linux 7.4 Kernel 3.10.0-693.x.x.el7.x86_64 |
| StorGuard on Hypervisors | – VMware ESXi 6 / 7 / 8 – Citrix XenServer 6.5 – Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V – Oracle Linux 8 Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) – Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud – Google Cloud – IBM Cloud – Microsoft Azure Cloud – Zadara Cloud |
| CDP/NSS on Hypervisors | – VMware ESXi 6 / 7 / 8 – Citrix XenServer 6.5 – Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V – Oracle Linux 8 Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) |
| Operating System | Certified Version |
| IBM AIX | – 7.1 – 6.1 – Virtual I/O Server 2.2 |
| Citrix XenServer | – 8.x – 7.x – 6.5 |
| HP-UX | – 11iv3 |
| Linux | – Oracle/CentOS/Red Hat/SUSE |
| Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) | – Linux kernel 2.6.32 |
| Oracle Solaris | – 11 SPARC and Intel – 10 SPARC and Intel |
| Oracle VM | – 3.3.2 |
| VMware vSphere | – ESXi 8 – ESXi 7 – ESXi 6 – ESX 5.5 |
| Windows | – Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012 R2/2012/2008 R2/2008 – Windows Server with Hyper-V |
| FalconStor Product | Certified Application | Operating System |
| – Snapshot Agent for VSS – Recovery Agent for VSS | Microsoft Active Directory | – Windows Server 2022 – Windows Server 2019 – Windows Server 2016 – Windows Server 2012 – Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 |
| – Snapshot Agent for VSS – Recovery Agent for VSS | Microsoft Exchange 2019 | – Windows Server 2022 – Windows Server 2019 |
| – Snapshot Agent for VSS – Recovery Agent for VSS | Microsoft Exchange 2016 | – Windows Server 2016 |
| – Snapshot Agent for VSS – Recovery Agent for VSS | Microsoft Exchange 2013 | – Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 – Windows Server 2008 R2 |
| – Snapshot Agent for VSS – Recovery Agent for VSS | Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP3 | – Windows Server 2012 – Windows Server 2008 SP2/2008 R2 |
| – Snapshot Agent for VSS – Recovery Agent for VSS | Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 Microsoft Exchange 2010 | – Windows Server 2012 – Windows Server 2008 SP2/2008 R2 |
| – Snapshot Agent for Exchange – Recovery Agent for VSS | Microsoft Exchange 2007 | – Windows Server 2008 – Windows Server 2003 |
| – Snapshot Agent for VSS – Recovery Agent for VSS | Microsoft Hyper-V | – Windows Server 2022 – Windows Server 2019 – Windows Server 2016/2016 R2 – Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 – Windows Server 2008 R2 |
| – Snapshot Agent for VSS – Recovery Agent for VSS | Microsoft VSS | – Windows Server 2022 – Windows Server 2019 – Windows Server 2016 – Windows Server 2012 – Windows Server 2008/2008 SP1/2008 R2 |
| – Snapshot Agent for SQL – Recovery Agent for SQL | Microsoft SQL Server 2022 | – Windows Server 2022 |
| – Snapshot Agent for SQL – Recovery Agent for SQL | Microsoft SQL Server 2019 | – Windows Server 2022 – Windows Server 2019 |
| – Snapshot Agent for SQL – Recovery Agent for SQL | Microsoft SQL Server 2017 | – Windows Server 2019 |
| – Snapshot Agent for SQL – Recovery Agent for SQL | Microsoft SQL Server 2016 | – Windows Server 2019 – Windows Server 2016 – Windows Server 2012 R2 |
| – Snapshot Agent for SQL – Recovery Agent for SQL | Microsoft SQL Server 2014 | – Windows Server 2012 R2 – Windows Server 2008 SP 2 |
| – Snapshot Agent for SQL – Recovery Agent for SQL | Microsoft SQL Server 2012 | – Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 – Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 |
| – Snapshot Agent for SQL – Recovery Agent for SQL | Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) | – Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 |
| – Snapshot Agent for SQL – Recovery Agent for SQL | Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (64-bit) | – Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 – Windows Server 2003 |
| – Snapshot Agent for SQL – Recovery Agent for SQL | Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (32-bit) | – Windows Server 2008 – Windows Server 2003 |
| – Snapshot Agent for SQL – Recovery Agent for SQL | Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (64-bit) | – Windows Server 2008 – Windows Server 2003 |
| – Snapshot Agent for SQL – Recovery Agent for SQL | Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (32-bit) | – Windows Server 2008 – Windows Server 2003 |
| – Snapshot Agent for Oracle | Oracle 19c Rx (64-bit) | – Windows Server 2022 – Windows Server 2019 |
| – Snapshot Agent for Oracle | Oracle 12c R1 (64-bit) | – Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 3 |
| – Snapshot Agent for Oracle | Oracle 11g R2 (64-bit) | – Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 – Windows Server 2003 – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5/5.6/6 – Solaris 10 SPARC 2 |
| – Snapshot Agent for Oracle | Oracle 11g R2 (32-bit) | – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 – Windows Server 2008 – Windows Server 2003 |
| – Snapshot Agent for Oracle | Oracle 11g ASM and RAC (64-bit) | – Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 – Windows Server 2003 – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5/5.6 – Solaris 10 SPARC 2 |
| – Snapshot Agent for Oracle | Oracle 11g (32-bit) | – Windows Server 2008 – Windows Server 2003 |
| – Snapshot Agent for Oracle | Oracle 10g ASM and RAC | – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.9/5.5/6 – Solaris 10 Intel x86 |
| – Snapshot Agent for SAP HANA | SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 15 | – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Update 4 – SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 |
| SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 11 | – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 5/6 – SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP1/SP2/SP3/SP4 | |
| – DiskSafe | Host side-band protection | – Windows 2022 – Windows 2019 – Windows 2016 – Windows 2012/2012 R2 – Windows 2008 – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Update 1 to Update 7 – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 2 to Update 9 – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 4 to Update 11 – SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2/SP3/SP4 – SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP4 |
| – HyperTrac | CA ARCserve | – Windows 2022/2019/2012 R2 Hyper-V – Windows 2008 R2 – VMWare vmdk hot add script |
| – HyperTrac | NetWorker 7.6.1 3EMC | – Windows 2008/2008 R2 – Windows 2003 – VMWare script using vStorage API – VCB Mounter with the VMDK File Copy option |
| – HyperTrac | Symantec NetBackup 7.0 | – Windows 2008/2008 R2 – VMWare script using vStorage API – VCB Mounter with the VMDK File Copy option |
| – HyperTrac | Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3 | – Windows 2008/2008 R2 – VMWare script using vStorage API – VCB Mounter with the VMDK File Copy option |
| – RecoverTrac | Installation | – Windows Server 2022 – Windows Server 2019 – Windows Server 2016 – Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 – Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 |
| – RecoverTrac | OS Recovery Data disk recovery is not OS dependent. | – Windows Server 2022 – Windows Server 2019 – Windows Server 2016 – Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 – Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 |
| – RecoverTrac | OS Recovery on Hypervisors | – VMware vCenter 4.1 or higher for Windows – ESXi 8.0 or higher – ESXi 7.0 Update 1 or higher – ESXi 6.0/6.5 /6.7 Update 1 or higher – ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5 Update 1 or higher – ESXi/ESX 4.1 Update 2 or higher – Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012/2008 Hyper-V (single server) – Clone mode for local machine migration to AWS cloud |
| – Snapshot Director for VMware | VMware in-band protection | – ESXi 7 – ESXi 6.0/6.5/6.7 – ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5 |
| – Storage Replication Adapter for VMware | VMware SRM | – ESXi 5/6.5/6.7 – SRM 5/6.5/8.3 |
RecoverTrac supports various combinations of recovery for both physical and virtual machines: Physical-to-Physical (P2P), Virtual-to-Physical (V2P), Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), and Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V).
If recovering back to an identically configured physical machine (P2P or V2P), RecoverTrac will work regardless of whether or not your hardware is listed below.
RecoverTrac supports V2V where the virtual machines use physical VMware Raw Device Mapping (RDM), Hyper-V pass-through disks, or when the virtual machines are protected by FalconStor Disksafe.
While most systems from major hardware vendors (including Dell, Hitachi, HP, and IBM) can be used as recovery machines, FalconStor or a partner has explicitly tested the following server hardware for V2P recovery. If you wish to certify other hardware with RecoverTrac, contact FalconStor to request a formal certification process. We will make all efforts to comply but, due to time and resource constraints, we may be unable to accommodate all requests.
For information about servers certified with previous FalconStor product versions, check our Archived Recovery Hardware for FalconStor RecoverTrac page.
| Vendor | Certified Model | Components |
| Dell | PowerEdge R200 | – QLogic QLE2562 – Broadcom BCM5750 |
| PowerEdge R710 | – QLogic QLE2462/QLE2562 – Broadcom BCM5708 – LSI FC949E – Emulex LightPulse LPe1150-E | |
| PowerEdge R720/R720xd | – QLogic QLE2462 | |
| PowerEdge R805 | – QLogic QLE2462/QLE2562 – Broadcom BCM5708 – Dell PERC 6/i Integrated RAID Controller | |
| PowerEdge SC1430 | – QLogic QLE2462/QLE2562 – Broadcom BCM5709 | |
| HP | ProLiant DL360 G7 | – QLogic QLE2562 – Broadcom BCM5709C NetXtreme II GigE – HP Smart Array P410i Controller |
| ProLiant DL380 G6 | – QLogic QLE2562 | |
| ProLiant DL380 G7 | – QLogic QLE2462 – Broadcom BCM5709 – HP NC382i Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit NIC | |
| IBM | System x3650 M3 | – QLogic QLE2562 – Broadcom BCM5709 – IBM ServeRAID-M5015 SAS/SATA |
All equipment and software is certified as of the date it was added to this matrix. FalconStor is not responsible for any operational problems resulting from modifications made by the equipment or software manufacturer after the equipment or software was certified.
Updated on May 30, 2024