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Platform Support

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

Virtual Infrastructure

Specification	Requirement
Platform	vSphere 6.x vSphere 5.x VMware Cloud on AWS
Hypervisor	ESXi 6.x ESXi 5.x 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.x (optional) vCenter Server 5.x (optional)

Specification

Requirement

Platform

Hypervisor

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

Management Server
(optional)

VMs

Specification	Requirement
Virtual Hardware	All types and versions of virtual hardware are supported, including 62 TB 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.
OS	All operating systems supported by VMware. Application-aware processing is supported for Microsoft Windows 2003 SP1 and later except Nano Server, due to the absence of VSS framework.
Software	VMware Tools (optional, recommended). VMware Tools are required for the following operations: application-aware processing, file-level restore from Microsoft Windows guest OS and SureBackup testing functions. Open VM Tools (OVT, optional). Open VM Tools are a set of services and modules used by VMware for interaction with VMs running Linux or other VMware supported Unix-like guest operating systems. All latest OS service packs and patches (required for application-aware processing).

vCloud Director

Specification	Requirement
vCloud Director	vCloud Director 8.x up to 9.7

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)
Micro Focus OES	File-level restore is supported for Micro Focus Open Enterprise Server (Micro Focus OES). Micro Focus NetWare is not supported (Veeam Backup & Replication may fail to detect NSS volumes). AD-enabled NSS volumes on Open Enterprise Server 2015 are supported. Restore of NSS file/folder permissions is not supported. Note: Starting from Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4a, restore of NSS trustee rights on files/folders is supported.
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.