This is an archive version of the document. To get the most up-to-date information, see the current version.System Requirements
Make sure that servers that you plan to use as backup infrastructure components meet system requirements listed below.
- Backup server
- Veeam Backup & Replication console
- Backup proxy server
- Backup repository server
- WAN accelerator
- Backup target
- Storage integration
- Tape
- Tape server
- Gateway server
- Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
- Veeam Backup Search Server
- Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory
- Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange
- Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint
- Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server
- Veeam Explorer for Oracle
Limitations and Recommendations
Coexistence with Mission-Critical Production Servers
It is not recommended that you install Veeam Backup & Replication and its components on mission-critical machines in the production environment such as VMware vCenter Server, Domain Controller, Microsoft Exchange Server, Small Business Server/ Windows Server Essentials and so on. If possible, install Veeam Backup & Replication and its components on dedicated machines. Backup infrastructure component roles can be co-installed.
Microsoft Windows Server Core
You cannot install Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager on a machine running Microsoft Windows Server Core. However, you can assign roles of a backup proxy, backup repository, WAN accelerator, Veeam Cloud Connect infrastructure components and tape infrastructure components to machines running Microsoft Windows Server Core.
Domain Member
The machine on which you plan to install Veeam Backup & Replication does not necessarily need to be a domain member. However, if you plan to restore Microsoft Exchange items from the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager UI, you must install Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager on the domain member server from the Microsoft Active Directory forest in which Microsoft Exchange mailboxes are located.
All-in-One Installations
For all-in-one installations, you can subtract 2 GB of memory resources from each role. These 2 GB are allotted to the OS itself, assuming each component is installed on the dedicated server.
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Hardware | CPU: x86-64 processor. Memory: 4 GB RAM plus 500 MB RAM for each concurrent job. Disk Space: 2 GB for product installation and 4.5 GB for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 installation. 10 GB per 100 VM for guest file system catalog folder (persistent data). Additional free disk space for Instant VM Recovery cache folder (non-persistent data, at least 10 GB recommended). Network: 1 Gbps or faster for on-site backup and replication, and 1 Mbps or faster for off-site backup and replication. High latency and reasonably unstable WAN links are supported. |
OS | Only 64-bit version of the following operating systems are supported:
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Software | During setup, the setup performs system configuration check to determine if all prerequisite software is available on the machine where you plan to install Veeam Backup & Replication. If some of the required software components are missing, the setup wizard will offer you to install missing software automatically. This refers to:
The following software must be installed manually:
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SQL Database | Local or remote installation of the following versions of Microsoft SQL Server (both Full and Express Editions are supported):
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Veeam Backup & Replication Console
Specification | Requirement |
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Hardware | CPU: x86-64 processor. Memory: 2 GB RAM Disk Space: 500 MB for product installation and 4.5 GB for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 installation. Network: 1 Mbps connection to the backup server. High latency and low bandwidth impact user interface responsiveness. |
OS | Only 64-bit version of the following operating systems are supported:
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Hardware | CPU: modern x86 processor (minimum 2 cores or vCPUs). Using multi-core processors improves data processing performance, and allows for more tasks to be processed concurrently by proxy. Memory: 2 GB RAM plus 200MB for each concurrent task. Using faster memory (DDR3) improves data processing performance. Disk Space: 300 MB. Network: 1 Gbps or faster for on-site backup and replication, and 1 Mbps or faster for off-site backup and replication. High latency and reasonably unstable WAN links are supported. |
OS | Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the following operating systems are supported:
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Software | For VMware vSphere 5.5/6.0 backup proxy server on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 or earlier: Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64). Installation package can be downloaded from http://vee.am/runtime. |
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To protect VMs running on ESXi 5.5 and newer, you must deploy backup proxies on machines running a 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows. VDDK 5.5 and newer does not support 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows. |
Specification | Requirement |
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Hardware | CPU: x86 processor (x86-64 recommended). Memory: 4 GB RAM, plus up to 2 GB RAM (32-bit OS) or up to 4 GB RAM (64-bit OS) for each concurrent job depending on backup chain’s length and backup files sizes. Network: 1 Gbps or faster for on-site backup and replication, and 1 Mbps or faster for off-site backup and replication. High latency and reasonably unstable WAN links are supported. |
OS | Both 32-bit and 64-bit (recommended) versions of the following operating systems are supported:
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If you plan to use a Microsoft Windows backup repository with Data Deduplication, make sure that you set up the Microsoft Windows server correctly. For more information, see https://www.veeam.com/kb1893. |
Specification | Requirement |
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Hardware | CPU: x86-64 processor. Using multi-core processors improves data processing performance, and is highly recommended on WAN links faster than 10 Mbps. Memory: 8 GB RAM. Using faster memory (DDR3/DDR4) improves data processing performance. Disk Space: Disk space requirements depend on the WAN Accelerator role. For more information, see WAN Accelerator Sizing. Network: 1 Gbps or faster for on-site backup and replication, and 1 Mbps or faster for off-site backup and replication. High latency and reasonably unstable WAN links are supported. |
OS | Only 64-bit version of the following operating systems are supported:
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Global cache is not leveraged by Source WAN Accelerators, and so does not need to be allocated and populated on WAN Accelerators used only as source ones. |
Backup can be performed to the following disk-based storage:
- Local (internal) storage of the backup repository server.
- Direct Attached Storage (DAS) connected to the backup repository server, including external USB/eSATA drives and raw device mapping (RDM) volumes.
- Storage Area Network (SAN). Backup repository server must be connected into the SAN fabric via hardware or virtual HBA, or software iSCSI initiator, and the corresponding volumes must be mounted in the guest operating system of the backup repository server.
- Network Attached Storage (NAS) able to represent itself as SMB (CIFS) share (direct operation), or NFS share (must be mounted on a Linux backup repository server).
- EMC DataDomain (DD OS version 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 or 5.7) with DDBoost license. Both Ethernet and Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity is supported.
- ExaGrid (firmware version 4.8.0.351.P28 or later).
- HPE StoreOnce (firmware version 3.13.1 or later) with Catalyst license. Both Ethernet and Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity is supported.
Backup from Storage Snapshots and Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots is supported for the following storage devices:
EMC VNX and VNX2
- NFS, Fibre Channel (FC) or iSCSI connectivity
EMC VNXe
- NFS, Fibre Channel (FC) or iSCSI connectivity
Veeam Backup & Replication does not support EMC VNXe Gen 1 OS (2.x.x). EMC VNXe Gen 2 OS (3.x.x) is supported.
EMC Unity Family
HPE 3PAR StoreServ
- Fibre Channel (FC) or iSCSI connectivity
- 3PAR OS 3.1.2 or later
HPE StoreVirtual (LeftHand / P4000 series) and StoreVirtual VSA
- iSCSI connectivity only
- SAN/iQ version 9.5 or later
NetApp FAS, FlexArray (V-Series), Edge VSA and IBM N Series (NetApp FAS OEM)
- NFS, Fibre Channel (FC) or iSCSI connectivity
- All Data ONTAP 7-mode versions and cDot versions from 8.1 up to 8.3.2
Veeam Backup & Replication does not support SVM DR (Storage Virtual Machine Disaster Recovery) and Load-Sharing Mirrors on SVM Root Volumes.
Specification | Requirement |
Hardware | LTO3 or later tape libraries (including VTL) and standalone drives are supported. Tape device must be directly attached to the backup server, to a tape server via SAS, FC or iSCSI interface. Note that VMware does not support connecting tape libraries to ESX(i) for VM pass-through. |
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Specification | Requirement |
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Hardware | CPU: x86 processor (x86-64 recommended). Memory: 2 GB RAM plus 200MB for each concurrent task. Disk Space: 300 MB. Network: 1 Gbps or faster. |
OS | Both 32-bit and 64-bit (recommended) versions of the following operating systems are supported:
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Specification | Requirement |
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Platform | Physical or virtual machine |
OS | Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the following operating systems are supported:
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Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Server
Specification | Requirement |
Hardware | Processor: x86-64 processor. Memory: 4 GB RAM. Disk Space: 2 GB for product installation plus sufficient disk space to store guest file system catalog from connected backup servers (according to data retention policy). Network: 1 Mbps or faster connection to backup servers. |
OS | Only 64-bit version of the following operating systems is supported:
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Server Software |
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Client Software |
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SQL Database | Local or remote installation of the following versions of Microsoft SQL Server (both Full and Express Editions are supported):
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It is recommended that you install the same product version on the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager server and backup servers. If you use different versions of Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager and Veeam Backup & Replication, you may not be able to leverage all features in Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager. |
Specification | Requirement |
Hardware | Refer to corresponding Microsoft Search Server version system requirements |
OS | Refer to corresponding Microsoft Search Server version system requirements |
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Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory
Specification | Requirement |
Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controllers |
Minimum supported domain and forest functional level is Windows 2003. Note: Database files created by domain controller running on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 or Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 can be open only if Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory is installed on the machine with the same OS or Microsoft Windows 8.x OS. |
Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange
Specification | Requirement |
Microsoft Exchange |
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Software | Microsoft Outlook 2010 or later (64-bit) for PST exports (optional) |
Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint
Specification | Requirement |
Microsoft SharePoint |
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Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL
Specification | Requirement |
Microsoft SQL Server |
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Specification | Requirement |
Oracle system | Both 32-bit and 64-bit version of the following operating systems is supported:
32-bit Oracle application running on 64-bit operating systems is not supported. |
Oracle databases |
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Configuration | Oracle Automatic Storage Management (optional, requires ASMlib present) |