Requirements and Compatibilities

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Requirements - Archiware P5 Version 8.0

Operating System Requirements

macOS X

Intel x86 (64-Bit) macOSX 10.9 – 15.x
– Apple M-series macOSX 11.x – 26.5.x (Tahoe)

Windows

Server 2016 / 2019 / 2022 / 2025
Windows 10, 11 Please read before installing!

Linux

Intel/AMD x86 64-Bit systems with glibc version 2.15 are supported, including:
– OpenSuSE 12.2+ / SLES 12+
– CentOS 7+ / RHEL 7+ / Fedora 19+
– Ubuntu 12+
– Debian 8+
Unicode UTF-8 Language package is required

FreeBSD

Version 13 and 14
Intel/AMD x86 64-Bit CPU

Synology

DSM operating system 5.2 – 7
Intel/AMD x86 64-Bit CPU

QNAP

QTS 4.3+, 5.0+
QuTS hero 5.0+, 6.0+
QuTScloud
Intel/AMD x86 64-Bit CPU

NETGEAR

ReadyNAS OS 6.6.0 +
Intel/AMD x86 64-Bit CPU

TrueNAS

Installation through TrueNAS Scale GUI

Virtualization

x86 – VMware, Parallels, Linux-Xen, Hyper-V

Hardware Requirements

Base core

2 cores and 8 GB RAM

Additional per LTO drive

2 cores and 8 GB RAM

Additional for LTFS Support

32 GB RAM

Storage

SSD/NVMe required for installation and backup/archive indexes (minimum 20 GB)

Network

10 GbE is required to archive or back up over the network

Browser Requirements

Safari

13+

Firefox

70+

Chrome

80+

Compatibilites - Archiware P5 Version 8.0

Supported Tape Technologies

Proprietary File Systems

Supported Cloud Services

Alibaba Object Storage Service
Amazon S3
Amazon Snowball
Amazon Glacier
Backblaze B2
Exoscale as Generic S3
Generic S3
Google Cloud Storage
Hitachi S3 (as generic S3)
Huawei (as generic S3)
Microsoft Azure
MinIO (as generic S3)
Oracle Cloud Storage
OrionVM (as generic S3)
RSTOR Space (as generic S3)
Seagate Lyve Cloud
Synology C2 Object Cloud Storage (as generic S3)
Viking Cloud Native Obsidian
Wasabi Cloud Storage

MAM/DAM Integrations

axle
Final Cut Server
Canto Cumulus
CANTEMO
CatDV
cavok (Peak-14)
DALIM ES
Editshare
ELEMENTS
eMAM
FocalPoint Server
KeyFlow ADAMS
KYNO
Metus
Pomfort
Projective Strawberry
Streamline Pro
Xinet

Supported Hardware Manufacturers

Accusys
Apple
BDT
Bright Technologies Astella
DDP
Dell
Drobo (as a disk)
Facilis
FAST LTA
GB Labs
G-Technology
HPE
IBM
LaCie
mLogic
NEC
NetApp
Netgear
Overland-Tandberg
Perifery
Promise
QNAP
Qualstar
Quantum
Samsung
Scale Logic
Sonnet
Spectra Logic
Starline
Sun/Oracle
SYMPLY
Synology (as of P5 Version 5.3.3)
ToolsOnAir just:store
UNITEX

Disk Storage

Direct attached storage (DAS)
FreeNAS
HyperFS
MetaSAN 4.5.0.0 (Windows/Linux supported from 4.6.0.0)
QNAP NAS
RAID
Scale Logic
Seagate LaCie
Storage area network (SAN)
StorNext
Synology NAS (as of P5 Version 5.3.3)
SSD
Tiger Store
Vtrak FS
XSAN

Supported Interfaces

Cloud Object Storage Classes

Supported Tape Library Vendors

Actidata
BDT
Dell
HPE
IBM
MagStor
mLogic
NEC
Oracle/StorageTek
OWC
Overland-Tandberg
Qualstar
Quantum
Spectra Logic
SYMPLY

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Product Configurator

Archiware products are sold according to a list-based pricing structure. Pricing depends on the required modules, size of storage and other factors. The required license or bundle can easily be calculated using our P5 Product Configurator. Simply select the required modules, the size of Archive/Backup storage or Tape library, additional clients or options to receive a license configuration quote.

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