Are you looking for the efficiency of a deduplicating secondary storage solution, but without the limitations of a purpose-built appliance? Then the HPE StoreOnce VSA meets your requirements with the flexibility of a virtual appliance. You get all the features and data protection software compatibility of dedicated StoreOnce systems in a software-defined secondary storage solution. Additionally, the portability and availability features of vSphere and Hyper-V provide extra flexibility and reliability. Up to 500 TB of usable capacity can be configured in increments of 1 TB. A license server simplifies license management for large or dynamic deployments of StoreOnce VSA. Intelligent cluster management further streamlines operations with multiple StoreOnce VSA instances managed through a central console. StoreOnce replication and Cloud Bank Storage allow for the relocation of backup data to another site for added protection, ensuring additional safety and utilizing cost-effective object storage services for economical long-term retention.

New features – Additional information: StoreOnce VSA 4.2 is enhanced with support for deployments in highly available VMware environments. VSA 4.2 enables automated VSA failover from failed to standby hosts when using IP and FC data connections. This limits the risk of downtime due to host failures to just minutes. A new virtual appliance, the StoreOnce High Availability Manager, simplifies the management of StoreOnce VSAs in highly available configurations.