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    Before you create and start a recovery verification job, check the following prerequisites:

    • You can configure a virtual lab on the following types of hosts:
    • Microsoft Hyper‑V Server 2012
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with the Hyper-V role enabled
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled.
    • You can verify backups of VMs running on the following platforms:
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with the Hyper-V role enabled
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled
    • A valid license for Enterprise Edition of Veeam Backup & Replication must be installed on the backup server.
    • All applications and services on which verified VMs are dependent must be virtualized in your environment.
    • If you plan to verify VMs with a ping test, the firewall on tested VMs must allow ping requests.
    • If you plan to verify VMs with a heartbeat test, Hyper-V Integration Services must be installed in tested VMs.
    • To open a console of a verified VM, you must have the RDP client version 7.0 and later installed on the backup server. The RDP client is pre-installed on Microsoft Windows 7 OS and later.

    Mind the following limitations:

    • Veeam Backup & Replication does not perform SureBackup verification for backups created with backup copy jobs and backups stored on cloud repositories. You cannot add VMs from such backups to application groups or link such backups to SureBackup jobs.
    • The source backup job has a higher priority than the SureBackup job. If the source backup job starts when the SureBackup job is running, and this job is about to modify the restore point from which the VM is started, Veeam Backup & Replication automatically powers off VMs in the virtual lab and completes the SureBackup job.