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Platform Support

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

Virtual Infrastructure

Specification	Requirement
Platform	Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Hypervisor	Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 R2 Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft Hyper-V Server (free hypervisor) is supported Hosts must have all relevant Microsoft Windows Server hot fixes installed (refer to KB1838).
Management Server (optional)	Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 (optional) Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 (optional) Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 (optional)

VMs

Specification	Requirement
Hardware	All types and versions of virtual hardware are supported, including Generation 2 VM hardware and 64 TB VHDX. Pass-through virtual 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 Hyper-V. Application-aware processing is supported for Microsoft Windows 2003 SP2 and later. 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 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2). To restore files from non-Microsoft Windows guests (Linux, Solaris, BSD, Novell OES), use the Multi-OS File Level Restore wizard.
Software	Microsoft Hyper-V Integration Services (required for application-aware processing)

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)
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.