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Platform Support

Veeam Backup & Replication provides support for the following versions of the Microsoft Hyper-V platform.

Virtual Infrastructure

Specification	Requirement
Platform	Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Microsoft Windows Server Semi-Annual Channel (including version 1903) Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Hypervisor	Windows Server Hyper-V 2019 Windows Server Hyper-V 2016 Windows Server Semi-Annual Channel (including version 1903) Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 R2 Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 Windows Server Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft Hyper-V Server (free hypervisor) is supported Note that you must keep your servers up-to-date.
Management Server (optional)	Microsoft PowerShell Engine 2.0 (optional, enables networkless guest processing) Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019 Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1807 Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1801 Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2016 Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1

Specification

Requirement

Platform

Microsoft Windows Server 2019
Microsoft Windows Server 2016
Microsoft Windows Server Semi-Annual Channel (including version 1903)
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

Hypervisor

Windows Server Hyper-V 2019
Windows Server Hyper-V 2016

Windows Server Semi-Annual Channel (including version 1903)

Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 R2
Windows Server Hyper-V 2012
Windows Server Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1
Microsoft Hyper-V Server (free hypervisor) is supported

Note that you must keep your servers up-to-date.

Management Server (optional)

Microsoft PowerShell Engine 2.0 (optional, enables networkless guest processing)
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1807
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1801
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2016
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1

VMs

Specification	Requirement
Hardware	Supported virtual hardware versions are 5.0–9.0 (valid for Hyper-V 2016–2019). Both Generation 1 and 2 virtual machines are supported, including 64 TB VHDX disks. Pass-through virtual disks and guest disks connected via in-guest FC or iSCSI are skipped from processing. [For Hyper-V 2016–2019] VMs with pass-through virtual disks cannot be processed due to Hyper-V 2016 checkpoints limitation.
OS	All operating systems supported by Hyper-V. Application-aware processing is supported for Microsoft Windows 2003 SP2 and later except Nano Server, due to the absence of VSS framework. Application-aware processing for Microsoft Windows VMs with volumes larger than 64 TB is not supported*, because Veeam Backup & Replication uses the Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider to create a volume shadow copy during the backup or replication. For more information, see this Microsoft KB article. Microsoft Windows file-level restore option is supported on NTFS, FAT, FAT32 and ReFS file systems (ReFS is supported only if Veeam Backup & Replication is installed on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 or later) To restore files from non-Microsoft Windows guests (Linux, Solaris, or BSD), use the multi-OS File-Level Restore wizard.
Software	Hyper-V integration components (required for application-aware processing).

Specification

Requirement

Hardware

Supported virtual hardware versions are 5.0–9.0 (valid for Hyper-V 2016–2019).
Both Generation 1 and 2 virtual machines are supported, including 64 TB VHDX disks.
Pass-through virtual disks and guest disks connected via in-guest FC or iSCSI are skipped from processing.
[For Hyper-V 2016–2019] VMs with pass-through virtual disks cannot be processed due to Hyper-V 2016 checkpoints limitation.

All operating systems supported by Hyper-V*.

Application-aware processing is supported for Microsoft Windows 2003 SP2 and later except Nano Server, due to the absence of VSS framework.
Application-aware processing for Microsoft Windows VMs with volumes larger than 64 TB is not supported**, because Veeam Backup & Replication uses the Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider to create a volume shadow copy during the backup or replication. For more information, see this Microsoft KB article.

Microsoft Windows file-level restore option is supported on NTFS, FAT, FAT32 and ReFS file systems (ReFS is supported only if Veeam Backup & Replication is installed on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 or later)
To restore files from non-Microsoft Windows guests (Linux, Solaris, or BSD), use the multi-OS File-Level Restore wizard.

Software

Hyper-V integration components (required for application-aware processing).

* You can back up VMs of Hyper-V clusters in rolling upgrade. However, Veeam Backup & Replication does not use the Resilient Changed Tracking mechanism in such scenario. To perform backup with RCT enabled, make sure your Microsoft Hyper-V environment meets these requirements. It is recommended to complete the rolling upgrade within four weeks. For more information, see Microsoft Docs.

** [For Hyper-V 2012 R2 and earlier] Backup and replication of VMs whose data resides on a Hyper-V host volume of 64 TB and larger is not supported.

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 later).
Linux	ext2, ext3, ext4 ReiserFS JFS XFS Btrfs DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Devices) are not supported.
BSD	UFS, UFS2
Mac	HFS, HFS+ (volumes up to 2 TB)
Solaris	UFS ZFS (except any pool versions of Oracle Solaris) The FLR appliance uses module ZFSonLinux version 0.7.0. For this reason, Veeam Backup & Replication supports only those versions of pools and features that are available in ZFSonLinux version 0.7.0.

Consider the following:

You cannot restore pipes and other file system objects. File-level restore supports recovery of files and folders only.

[For Microsoft Windows workloads] You can restore files from basic disks and dynamic disks (including simple, mirrored and striped volumes).
[For Linux workloads] You can restore files from basic disks, Linux LVM (Logical Volume Manager) and ZFS pools. Encrypted LVM volumes are not supported.

Network

Domain names of all managed servers added to the Veeam backup infrastructure and machines you want to back up must be resolvable into IPv4 addresses.