Virtual Gateway Technical Specifications

Software Features

Feature	Description
CTERA Agents	Does not include workstation or server licenses by default. Licenses are obtained from the CTERA Portal.
Supported File Systems	EXT3, NEXT3™, FAT32, NTFS, ExFAT, XFS
Supported File Sharing Protocols	SMB 2.x/3.x, CIFS (Windows File Sharing), NFS, FTP, WebDAV, RSync, AFP (Apple File Sharing)
Supported Discovery Protocols	UPnP, Bonjour
RAID Levels	Does not support a RAID configuration. Redundancy capabilities should be handled by the hypervisor host or the storage infrastructure upon which the virtual disks are defined.
Monitoring	SNMP

Cloud Service Features

Feature	Description
Backup Files Security	AES-256 Encryption, SHA-1 fingerprints, optional secret passphrase, file vetoing
Protocol Security	TLS (Transport Level Security)
Efficiency	Incremental updates, data compression, block level deduplication, simultaneous synchronization
Versioning	Retention of previous file versions
Additional Services	Centralized management, centralized monitoring, reporting, logging, remote access, offline backup seeding, Cloud Drive synchronization

Hardware

The VMWare vSphere version is supported over ESXi Server 5.0 or higher.

The Hyper-V version is supported on a Generation 1 VM on Windows Server 2008 R1 and Windows Server 2012 R1 and R2.

The KVM version is supported over KVM QEMU 1.2 or higher.

The AWS EC2 version is supported on C4.large virtual machines and higher.

The Azure version is supported on Standard_A4_v2 virtual machines and higher.

Licensing

Testing Environment

The following reference server architecture was used to validate the virtual gateway:

Dell R730, 2 CPUs, 24GB RAM, 32TB Storage

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2650L Processor 20M Cache 1.80 GHz

Storage: 8 x 4TB 7200RPM SATA in RAID 5, directly attached

The following virtual gateway architecture: 4 vCPUs, 8GB RAM, 1 or 2 Gigabit Ethernet link, Single 16TB virtual disk, JBOD array.

File access protocol: SMB