NetApp AltaVault Cloud Integrated Storage Administration Guide 11
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction of NetApp AltaVault
Cloud Integrated Storage
Overview of AltaVault
AltaVault appliance is a disk-to-disk data storage optimization system with unique cloud storage integration. There are
three types of AltaVault deployments:
Physical hardware appliances, available in AVA400 and AVA800 models.
Virtual appliance, available in AVA-v2, AVA-v8, AVA-v16, and AVA-v32 models.
Cloud-based virtual appliance:
– Amazon Machine Images (AMI), available in AVA-c4, AVA-c8, and AVA-c16 models.
– Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine (AVM), available in the AVA-c4 model.
Supported backup applications and cloud destinations
Refer to the Interoperability Matrix Tool (IMT) on the NetApp Support site to validate that the product and versions
that can be used to construct configurations that are supported by NetApp. Specific results depend on each customer's
installation in accordance with published specifications.
AutoSupport
AltaVault supports user-triggered and daily AutoSupports (ASUPs) as well as certain event-based triggers. ASUP
functionality is supported on all AltaVault models. For event-based triggers, see “Viewing the alarm status report” on
page 133.
For more information on ASUP CLI commands, see the NetApp AltaVault Cloud Integrated Storage Command-Line
Interface Reference Guide.
System requirements and specifications
This section specifies the hardware and software requirements.
For system requirements for virtual appliances, see the NetApp AltaVault Cloud Integrated Storage Installation and
Service Guide for Virtual Appliances.