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System Requirements

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    Make sure that servers that you plan to use as backup infrastructure components meet system requirements listed below.

    Limitations and Recommendations

    Coexistence with Mission-Critical Production Servers

    It is not recommended that you install Veeam Backup & Replication and its components on mission-critical machines in the production environment such as VMware vCenter Server, Domain Controller, Microsoft Exchange Server, Small Business Server/ Windows Server Essentials and so on. If possible, install Veeam Backup & Replication and its components on dedicated machines. Backup infrastructure component roles can be co-installed.

    Microsoft Windows Server Core

    You cannot install Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager on a machine running Microsoft Windows Server Core. However, you can assign roles of a backup proxy, backup repository, WAN accelerator, Veeam Cloud Connect infrastructure components and tape infrastructure components to machines running Microsoft Windows Server Core.

    Domain Member

    The machine on which you plan to install Veeam Backup & Replication does not necessarily need to be a domain member. However, if you plan to restore Microsoft Exchange items from the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager UI, you must install Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager on the domain member server from the Microsoft Active Directory forest in which Microsoft Exchange mailboxes are located.

    All-in-One Installations

    For all-in-one installations, you can subtract 2 GB of memory resources from each role. These 2 GB are allotted to the OS itself, assuming each component is installed on the dedicated server.

    Backup Server

    Specification

    Requirement

    Hardware

    CPU: x86-64 processor.

    Memory: 4 GB RAM plus 500 MB RAM for each concurrent job.

    Disk Space: 2 GB for product installation and 4.5 GB for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 installation. 10 GB per 100 VM for guest file system catalog folder (persistent data).

    Network: 1 Gbps or faster for on-site backup and replication, and 1 Mbps or faster for off-site backup and replication. High latency and reasonably unstable WAN links are supported.

    OS

    Only 64-bit version of the following operating systems are supported:

    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2
    • Microsoft Windows 10
    • Microsoft Windows 8.x
    • Microsoft Windows 7 SP1

    Software

    During setup, the setup performs system configuration check to determine if all prerequisite software is available on the machine where you plan to install Veeam Backup & Replication. If some of the required software components are missing, the setup wizard will offer you to install missing software automatically. This refers to:

    • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2
    • Microsoft Windows Installer 4.5
    • Microsoft SQL Server Management Objects
    • Microsoft SQL Server System CLR Types
    • Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Service Pack 1 redistributable package

    The following software must be installed manually:

    • Microsoft PowerShell 2.0 (required for PowerShell snap-in).
    • Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Microsoft Internet Explorer 10.0 or later.
    • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2/2012/2008 R2 Admin UI (optional, to be able to register SCVMM server with Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure).
    • RDP client version 7.0 and later installed on the backup server (required to open the VM console during SureBackup recovery verification of Microsoft Hyper-V VMs). The RDP client is pre-installed on Microsoft Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 OS and later. You can download the RDP client from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969084/en-us.

    SQL Database

    Local or remote installation of the following versions of Microsoft SQL Server (both Full and Express Editions are supported):

    • Microsoft SQL Server 2014
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express Edition is included in the setup)
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2008
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2005

    System Requirements Important!

    1. If you plan to back up VMs running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and Data Deduplication is enabled for some VM volumes, it is recommended that you deploy the Veeam Backup & Replication console and mount server on a machine running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Data Deduplication feature enabled. Otherwise, some types of restore operations for these VMs (such as Microsoft Windows File Level Recovery) may fail.
    2. Due to its limitations, Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition can only be used for evaluation purposes or in case of a small-scale production environment. For environments with a lot of VMs, it is necessary to install a fully functional commercial version of Microsoft SQL Server.

    Veeam Backup & Replication Console

    Specification

    Requirement

    Hardware

    CPU: x86-64 processor.

    Memory: 2 GB RAM

    Disk Space: 500 MB for product installation and 4.5 GB for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 installation.

    Network: 1 Mbps connection to the backup server. High latency and low bandwidth impact user interface responsiveness.

    OS

    Only 64-bit version of the following operating systems are supported:

    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2
    • Microsoft Windows 10
    • Microsoft Windows 8.x
    • Microsoft Windows 7 SP1

    Software

    • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 (included in the setup)
    • Windows Installer 4.5 (included in the setup)
    • Microsoft PowerShell 2.0 or later (optional)
    • Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Microsoft Internet Explorer 10.0 or later
    • RDP client version 7.0 and later (required to open the VM console during SureBackup recovery verification of Microsoft Hyper-V VMs). The RDP client is pre-installed on Microsoft Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 OS and later. You can download the RDP client from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969084/en-us.

     

    Off-Host Backup Proxy Server

    Specification

    Requirement

    Hardware

    CPU: X86-64 only (minimum 2 cores or vCPUs). Using multi-core processors improves data processing performance, and allows for more tasks to be processed concurrently by proxy.

    Memory: 2 GB RAM plus 200MB for each concurrent task. Using faster memory (DDR3) improves data processing performance.

    Disk Space: 300 MB.

    Network: 1 Gbps or faster for on-site backup and replication, and 1 Mbps or faster for off-site backup and replication. High latency and reasonably unstable WAN links are supported.

    OS

    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V role enabled
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V role enabled
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Hyper-V role enabled

    Software

    VSS hardware provider that supports transportable shadow copies. The VSS hardware provider is typically distributed as a part of client components supplied by the storage vendor.

     

    Backup Repository Server

    Specification

    Requirement

    Hardware

    CPU: x86 processor (x86-64 recommended).

    Memory: 4 GB RAM, plus up to 2 GB RAM (32-bit OS) or up to 4 GB RAM (64-bit OS) for each concurrent job depending on backup chain’s length and backup files sizes.

    Network: 1 Gbps or faster for on-site backup and replication, and 1 Mbps or faster for off-site backup and replication. High latency and reasonably unstable WAN links are supported.

    OS

    Both 32-bit and 64-bit (recommended) versions of the following operating systems are supported:

    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2
    • Microsoft Windows 10
    • Microsoft Windows 8.x
    • Microsoft Windows 7 SP1
    • Microsoft Windows Vista SP2
    • Linux (bash shell, SSH and Perl are required) Please check the full list of required Perl modules here: www.veeam.com/kb2007.
      64-bit edition of Linux must be able to run 32-bit programs. Pure 64-bit Linux editions are not supported (Perl installation must support 32-bit variables).

    System Requirements Note:

    If you plan to use a Microsoft Windows backup repository with Data Deduplication, make sure that you set up the Microsoft Windows server correctly. For more information, see https://www.veeam.com/kb1893.

    WAN Accelerator

    Specification

    Requirement

    Hardware

    CPU: x86-64 processor. Using multi-core processors improves data processing performance, and is highly recommended on WAN links faster than 10 Mbps.

    Memory: 8 GB RAM. Using faster memory (DDR3/DDR4) improves data processing performance.

    Disk Space: Disk space requirements depend on the WAN Accelerator role. For more information, see WAN Accelerator Sizing.

    Network: 1 Gbps or faster for on-site backup and replication, and 1 Mbps or faster for off-site backup and replication. High latency and reasonably unstable WAN links are supported.

    OS

    Only 64-bit version of the following operating systems are supported:

    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2
    • Microsoft Windows 10
    • Microsoft Windows 8.x
    • Microsoft Windows 7 SP1
    • Microsoft Windows Vista SP2

    System Requirements Note:

    Global cache is not leveraged by Source WAN Accelerators, and so does not need to be allocated and populated on WAN Accelerators used only as source ones.

    Backup Target

    Backup can be performed to the following disk-based storage:

    Tape

    Specification

    Requirement

    Hardware

    LTO3 or later tape libraries (including VTL) and standalone drives are supported. Tape device must be directly attached to the backup server, to a tape server via SAS, FC or iSCSI interface. Note that VMware does not support connecting tape libraries to ESX(i) for VM pass-through.

    Software

    • We recommend that you install device-specific, vendor-supplied OEM drivers for Windows. Devices without such drivers installed will appear in Windows Device Manager as Unknown or Generic and require enabling native SCSI commands mode.
    • If multiple driver installation modes are available for your tape device, use the one that allows for multiple open handles from a host to a drive to exist at the same time. For example, if your tape vendor provides “exclusive” and “non-exclusive” drivers, you should install the “non-exclusive” one.
    • No other backup server must be interacting with the tape device.

    Tape Server

    Specification

    Requirement

    Hardware

    CPU: x86 processor (x86-64 recommended).

    Memory: 2 GB RAM plus 200MB for each concurrent task.

    Disk Space: 300 MB.

    Network: 1 Gbps or faster.

    OS

    Both 32-bit and 64-bit (recommended) versions of the following operating systems are supported:

    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2
    • Microsoft Windows 10
    • Microsoft Windows 8.x
    • Microsoft Windows 7 SP1
    • Microsoft Windows Vista SP2

    Gateway Server

    Specification

    Requirement

    Platform

    Physical or virtual machine

    OS

    Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the following operating systems are supported:

    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2
    • Microsoft Windows 10
    • Microsoft Windows 8.x
    • Microsoft Windows 7 SP1
    • Microsoft Windows Vista SP2

    Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Server

    Specification

    Requirement

    Hardware

    Processor: x86-64 processor.

    Memory: 4 GB RAM.

    Disk Space: 2 GB for product installation plus sufficient disk space to store guest file system catalog from connected backup servers (according to data retention policy).

    Network: 1 Mbps or faster connection to backup servers.

    OS

    Only 64-bit version of the following operating systems is supported:

    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2
    • Microsoft Windows 10
    • Microsoft Windows 8.x
    • Microsoft Windows 7 SP1

    Server Software

    • Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 or later
    • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 (included in the setup)
    • Microsoft Windows Installer 4.5 (included in the setup)

    Client Software

    • Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Microsoft Internet Explorer 10.0 or later
    • Microsoft Excel 2003 or later (to view Excel reports)

    SQL Database

    Local or remote installation of the following versions of Microsoft SQL Server (both Full and Express Editions are supported):

    • Microsoft SQL Server 2014
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express Edition is included in the setup)
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2008
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2005

    System Requirements Important!

    It is recommended that you install the same product version on the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager server and backup servers. If you use different versions of Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager and Veeam Backup & Replication, you may not be able to leverage all features in Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.

    Veeam Backup Search Server

    Specification

    Requirement

    Hardware

    Refer to corresponding Microsoft Search Server version system requirements

    OS

    Refer to corresponding Microsoft Search Server version system requirements

    Software

    • Microsoft Search Server 2008 (including Express Edition).
    • Microsoft Search Server 2010 (including Express Edition).

    Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory

    Specification

    Requirement

    Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controllers

    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2

    Minimum supported domain and forest functional level is Windows 2003.

    Note: Database files created by domain controller running on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 or Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 can be open only if Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory is installed on the machine with the same OS or Microsoft Windows 8.x OS.

    Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange

    Specification

    Requirement

    Microsoft Exchange

    • Microsoft Exchange 2016
    • Microsoft Exchange 2013
    • Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1

    Software

    Microsoft Outlook 2010 or later (64-bit) for PST exports (optional)

    Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint

    Specification

    Requirement

    Microsoft SharePoint

    • Microsoft SharePoint 2013
    • Microsoft SharePoint 2010

    Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL

    Specification

    Requirement

    Microsoft SQL Server

    • Microsoft SQL Server 2014
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2012
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2008
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP4

    Veeam Explorer for Oracle

    Specification

    Requirement

    Oracle system

    Both 32-bit and 64-bit version of the following operating systems is supported:

    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2
    • CentOS 5 or later
    • RedHat 5 or later
    • Oracle Linux 5 or later
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (Oracle 12 only)

    32-bit Oracle application running on 64-bit operating systems is not supported.

    Oracle databases

    • Oracle 12
    • Oracle 11

    Configuration

    Oracle Automatic Storage Management (optional, requires ASMlib present)