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Platform Support

In this article

    Veeam Backup & Replication provides support for the following versions of the VMware vSphere platform.

    Virtual Infrastructure

    Specification

    Requirement

    Platform

    • vSphere 6.0
    • vSphere 5.x
    • vSphere 4.1

    Hypervisor

    • ESXi 6.0
    • ESXi 5.x
    • ESX(i) 4.1

    Free ESXi is not supported. Veeam Backup & Replication leverages vSphere and vStorage APIs that are disabled by VMware in free ESXi.

    Management Server
    (optional)

    • vCenter Server 6.0 (optional)
    • vCenter Server 5.x (optional)
    • vCenter Server 4.1 (optional)

    VMs

    Specification

    Requirement

    Virtual Hardware

    • All types and versions of virtual hardware are supported, including 62TB VMDK.
    • Virtual machines with disks engaged in SCSI bus sharing are not supported, because VMware does not support snapshotting such VMs.
    • RDM virtual disks in physical mode, Independent disks, and disks connected via in-guest iSCSI initiator are not supported, and are skipped from processing automatically. Network shares and mount points targeted to 3rd party storage devices are also skipped as these volumes/disks are not visible in the VM configuration file.
    • Veeam Backup & Replication does not process running VMs with PCI vSphere Direct Path I/O devices VMs due to VMware vSphere limitations. To process such VMs, you must power them off.

    OS

    • All operating systems supported by VMware.
    • Application-aware processing for Microsoft Windows 2003 SP1 and later.

    Software

    • VMware Tools (optional). VMware Tools are required for the following operations: application-aware processing, file-level restore from Microsoft Windows guest OS and SureBackup testing functions.
    • All latest OS service packs and patches (required for application-aware processing)

    vCloud Director

    Specification

    Requirement

    vCloud Director

    vCloud Director 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 8.0, 8.10 (optional). vCloud Director 8.10 is supported starting from Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0 Update 2.

     

    File-Level Restore

    OS

    Supported File Systems

    Microsoft Windows

    • FAT, FAT32
    • NTFS
    • ReFS (ReFS is supported only if Veeam Backup & Replication is installed on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 or Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2).

    Linux

    • ext2, ext3, ext4
    • ReiserFS
    • JFS
    • XFS
    • Btrfs

    BSD

    UFS, UFS2

    Mac

    HFS, HFS+ (volumes up to 2 TB)

    Novell OES

    File-level restore is supported for Novell Open Enterprise Server (Novell OES). Novell NetWare is not supported (Veeam Backup & Replication may fail to detect NSS volumes). 

    Restore of NSS file/folder permissions is not supported.

    Only 32-bit versions are supported. 32-bit NSS volumes with Active Directory support are not supported.

    Solaris

    • UFS
    • ZFS

    The FLR appliance uses module ZFSonLinux version 0.6.3. For this reason, Veeam Backup & Replication supports only those versions of pools and features that are available in ZFSonLinux version 0.6.3.

    The multi-OS wizard works not only with basic disks, but also Linux LVM (Logical Volume Manager) and ZFS pools.

    VM Guest OS Files Exclusion

    Veeam Backup & Replication supports both basic and dynamic disks. Volumes on the dynamic disks must not be split — spanned, striped and other types of split volumes are not supported.