This product is EOL. We recommend using Acronis Software-Defined Infrastructure product instead.
When planning Acronis Storage Gateway deployment, pay attention to supported and recommended configurations. Refer to the Deployment Guide for complete configuration details.
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Recommended Configuration
Hardware requirements
Recommended hardware configuration is described in System Requirements of the Installation Guide.
| Type | Configuration |
| CPU | 2-4 (v)CPU |
| RAM | 4 GB of RAM or more |
| System disk | 100 GB of free disk space for logs |
*If you are planning to use an Azure or Amazon S3 backend, we recommend that you install Acronis Storage Gateway on a virtual machine in the corresponding cloud environment (Microsoft Azure or Amazon EC2).
Software requirements
Acronis Storage Gateway is installed on a dedicated server with supported OS:
- RHEL 7 x86_64
- CentOS 7 x86_64
Supported backend configurations is used:
- Only one backend is configured.
- Local backend uses a local directory or a mounted NFS share according to the configuration details.
- S3 backend uses one of the supported S3 flavours:
- Cleversafe
- IIJ GIO
- Swisscom
- Amazon
- Microsoft Azure backend.
- OpenStack Swift backend.
Network requirements
The following ports need to be open on the server:
- 44445 for incoming connections from public network
- 443 and 8443 for outgoing connections to the public network.
A gateway can serve up to 2 gigabit of user traffic that is usually about 50-100 simultaneous backup sessions with a good speed.
Minimal Configuration
Hardware requirements
See recommended hardware requirements.
Software requirements
Acronis Storage Gateway is installed on any server running supported OS:
- RHEL 7 x86_64
- CentOS 7 x86_64
Supported backend configuration is used. See recommended software configuration.
Network requirements
See recommended network requirements.
Not Supported Configuration
Not supported hardware configuration and scenarios
- When Acronis Storage Gateway runs inside a virtual machine, resources of the hosting hypervisor must not be oversubscribed.
Not supported software configuration and scenarios
Unsupported OS:
- Any Linux distribution different from RHEL 7 x86_64 or CentOS 7 x86_64, e.g. CentOS 5 x86, Ubuntu, Debian, Suse etc.
3rs party software:
- The machine running Acronis Storage Gateway must not host any 3rd party services such as web servers and other resource-demanding applications.
Acronis Storage Gateway configuration:
- Any unsupported backend is used:
- Local backend: SMB/CIFS share; local folder with insufficient permissions (not owned by acronis user and group)
- S3 backend: Ceph, Riak, Nimbula, Scality, Rackspace, Cloudian, Google Cloud Storage etc.
Not supported network configuration and scenarios
- Storage cluster is not protected from non-authorized access over the network.
- No Internet access is availabe on the server.
- Port 44445 is closed for inbound connections.
- Ports 443 and 8443 are closed for outbound connections.
- More than 100 simultaneous backups are performed on the server.
(!) We recommend using Acronis Backup Gateway in Acronis Software-Defined Infrastructure, because it doesn’t have this limitation and can server more than several thousands of simultaneous connections.