Requirements and Limitations

Important

Veeam offers experimental support for the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO. For more information, see this Knowledge Base article.

To be eligible for support, you must use an unmodified version of the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO on a machine that meets all the system requirements.

In addition to the general backup repository and hardened repository system requirements, the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO has specific requirements and limitations.

Requirements

The following requirements must be met:

Veeam Backup & Replication 12.2 or later.
All hardware must be on the Red Hat compatibility list.

UEFI secure boot must be enabled.

The server must be a physical machine.
Third party security software must not be installed on the server.

The server must have at least two storage volumes:

A separate volume for the operating system (minimum 100GB).
At least one additional volume for data (minimum 100GB).

Tip

It is strongly recommended that you use at least a dual parity RAID configuration.

1 Gbit/s network connection minimum, 10Gbit/s network connection is recommended.
In addition to the standard set of ports that must be opened for a backup/hardened repository, a direct or HTTP proxy connection to repository.veeam.com on port 443 is also required for security and operating system updates. Without this connection, the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) keys will eventually expire. Once these keys have expired, no further updates will be possible and a full re-installation will be required.
To prevent unauthorized deletion of the repository, all BMC (base management controller) ports on your server hardware must be closed if they are not needed.

Limitations

The solution has the following limitations:

Updates to the server occur automatically at 8:00 AM of the configured time zone. However, the server will not automatically reboot. Additionally, there are no notifications about required reboots. To make sure that all updates are installed and applied properly, reboot the hardened repository regularly.

The ISO does not currently have a “repair mode”. If the operating system volume is lost due to a RAID failure or similar issue, you will need to install another supported Linux-based operating system and mount the storage volume or volumes to access your data.

Only hardware RAID controllers are supported.
Only internal / direct attached volumes with a hardware RAID controller with write-back cache are supported.
iSCSI or Fibre Channel LUNs provisioned to the server are not supported.

Wireless network connections are not supported.