Platform Support

This section includes information about platforms that Veeam Backup & Replication supports.

Note

The information on this page is valid as of the date of the last page update.

Virtual Infrastructure

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

Specification

Requirement

Platform

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2022
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
  • Azure Stack HCI OS

For the supported versions, see this Veeam KB article.

  • Windows 111
  • Windows 101

Hypervisor

  • Windows Server Hyper-V 2022
  • Windows Server Hyper-V 2019
  • Windows Server Hyper-V 2016
  • Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 R2
  • Windows Server Hyper-V 2012
  • Azure Stack HCI
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server (free hypervisor) is supported

Server Core installations are fully supported.

Microsoft Nano Server with Hyper-V role installed cannot be added to the backup infrastructure as a managed server and no role can be assigned to it. However, you can back up and replicate such servers, but application-aware processing is not supported for them.

Note that you must keep your servers up-to-date.

Management Server (optional)

  • Microsoft PowerShell Engine 2.0 or later (optional, enables networkless guest processing)
  • Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2022
  • Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019
  • Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1807
  • Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1801
  • Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2016
  • Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2
  • Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1

1 Windows 10/11 is supported only as a target for Instant Recovery and as a host on which a virtual lab for SureBackup jobs can be created.

VMs

Specification

Requirement

Hardware

  • Supported virtual hardware versions are 5.0 to 10.0 (valid for Hyper-V 2016 to 2022).
  • Both Generation 1 and 2 virtual machines are supported, including 64 TB VHDX disks.
  • Pass-through virtual disks and guest disks connected through in-guest FC or iSCSI initiators are not supported for host-based backup. VMs with pass-through disks cannot be snapshotted, which prevents snapshot-based backup. In-guest connected disks are skipped from processing automatically. If backup of these VMs/disks is required, use agent-based backup.
  • [For Hyper-V Server 1803 or later] Backup of VMs with VMPmemController is not supported.
  • [For Hyper-V 2016 and later] Veeam Backup & Replication does not support processing of VMs with shared VHDX disks. You must change the disk format to VHD Set (VHDS).
  • [For Hyper-V 2016 and later] VMs with pass-through virtual disks cannot be processed due to Hyper-V 2016 checkpoints limitation.
  • [For Hyper-V 2012 R2] Veeam Backup & Replication backs up shared VHDX disks in a crash-consistent state.
  • [For Hyper-V 2012 R2 and earlier] Backup and replication of VMs whose data resides on a Hyper-V host volume of 64 TB and larger is not supported.

OS

All operating systems supported by Hyper-V.

Note: You can back up VMs of Hyper-V clusters in rolling upgrade. However, Veeam Backup & Replication does not use the Resilient Changed Tracking mechanism in such scenario. To perform backup with RCT enabled, make sure your Microsoft Hyper-V environment meets these requirements. It is recommended to complete the rolling upgrade within four weeks. For more information, see Microsoft Docs.

Software

Hyper-V integration components (optional, required for application-aware processing).

Consider the following:

  • [For Hyper-V 2016 and later] Veeam Backup & Replication cannot interact with the guest OS of a shielded VM and get information about its OS, IP address and so on. For this reason, the following operations are not supported for shielded VMs:
    • Application-aware image processing
    • Restore of VM guest OS files to the original location
    • Restore of application items to the original location
  • [For Hyper-V 2016 and later] Shielded VMs can run only on trusted hosts guarded with the Host Guardian Service. Consider that when selecting a target host for VM replication or VM restore. If the target host is not guarded with the same Host Guardian Service as the source host, you will not be able to power on the replicated or restored VM.
  • The two previous limitations also apply to Generation 1 of Microsoft Hyper-V VMs that use Key Storage Drive. For more information about Key Storage Drive, see Microsoft Docs.
  • Guest processing (which includes application-aware processing and indexing) is supported for 64-bit versions of the following Linux operating systems:
  • CentOS 7.x
  • Debian 10.0 to 12.11, 12.21
  • Oracle Linux 7 (UEK3) to 9 (UEK R7)
  • Oracle Linux 7 to 9 (RHCK)
  • RHEL 7.0 to 9.31
  • SLES 12 SP4 or later, 15 SP1 or later
  • Ubuntu: 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS, and 22.04 LTS

1 This version requires Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1 (build 12.1.0.2131) or later.

Guest OS File 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 later.)

Windows file-level restore to original location is supported for Microsoft Windows 2008/Windows Vista or later except Nano Server.

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)

Solaris

  • UFS
  • ZFS (except any pool versions of Oracle Solaris)

The helper 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.

For other requirements and limitations of guest OS file restore, see Requirements and Limitations.

Supported Applications

You can create transactionally-consistent backups or replicas of VMs that run the following applications.

Application

Requirement

Microsoft Active Directory

of domain controllers for the following operating systems:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2022
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008

Minimum supported domain and forest functional level is Windows 2008.

Microsoft Exchange

of the following Microsoft Exchange versions:

  • Microsoft Exchange 2019
  • Microsoft Exchange 2016
  • Microsoft Exchange 2013

Microsoft SharePoint

of the following versions of Microsoft SharePoint Server (virtualized either on VMware or Hyper-V platform):

  • Microsoft SharePoint Server Subscription Edition
  • Microsoft SharePoint 2019
  • Microsoft SharePoint 2016
  • Microsoft SharePoint 2013

All editions are supported (Subscription, Foundation, Standard, Enterprise).

Restore of Microsoft SharePoint data may require an available staging Microsoft SQL Server. To learn how to configure this server, see .

Microsoft SQL Server

of the following Microsoft SQL Server versions:

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2022 (only for Windows)
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (only for Windows)
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (only for Windows)
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP2
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP3
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP4
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP4

All editions of Microsoft SQL Server except LocalDB are supported.

The database whose logs you want to back up must use the Full or Bulk-logged recovery model. In this case, all changes of the Microsoft SQL Server state will be written to transaction logs, and you will be able to replay transaction logs to restore the Microsoft SQL Server. You can use the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio to switch to one of these models. For more information, see Microsoft Docs.

Restore of Microsoft SQL Server data may require an available staging Microsoft SQL Server. To learn how to configure this server, see .

Oracle on Windows OS

of the following Oracle Database versions on Microsoft Windows machines:

  • Oracle Database 21c

For supported operating systems, see Oracle documentation.

  • Oracle Database 19c

For supported operating systems, see Oracle documentation.

  • Oracle Database 18c

For supported operating systems, see Oracle documentation.

  • Oracle Database 12c Release 2

For supported operating systems, see Oracle documentation.

  • Oracle Database 12c Release 1

For supported operating systems, see Oracle documentation.

  • Oracle Database 11g Release 2

For supported operating systems, see Oracle documentation.

Oracle on Linux OS

of the following Oracle Database versions on Linux machines:

  • Oracle Database 21c

For supported operating systems, see Oracle documentation.

  • Oracle Database 19c

For supported operating systems, see Oracle documentation.

  • Oracle Database 18c

For supported operating systems, see Oracle documentation.

  • Oracle Database 12c Release 2

For supported operating systems, see Oracle documentation.

  • Oracle Database 12c Release 1

For supported operating systems, see Oracle documentation.

  • Oracle Database 11g Release 2

For supported operating systems, see Oracle documentation.

Starting from version 12.1 (build 12.1.0.2131), Veeam Backup & Replication supports the backup of Linux-based VMs with several Oracle homes of different versions.

Oracle Database configuration

Consider the following:

  • Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is supported for Oracle 11g and later; requires ASMlib present.
  • Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) are not supported within the image-level backup functionality. Use Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN. For details, see the Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN section of the Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications User Guide.
  • Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) is supported for Windows-based machines only.
  • Configurations with different versions of Oracle Database deployed on the same server are not supported. Use Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN. For details, see the Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN section of the Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications User Guide.
  • To create Oracle database backups, all Oracle servers that use Data Guard must be added to the backup job.
  • You can use Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN to integrate RMAN with Veeam Backup & Replication repositories. For details, see the Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN section of the Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications User Guide.

PostgreSQL

of the following PostgreSQL versions on Linux machines:

  • PostgreSQL 16
  • PostgreSQL 15
  • PostgreSQL 14
  • PostgreSQL 13
  • PostgreSQL 12

 

Note

Consider that 32-bit Oracle running on 64-bit operating systems and Oracle Express Edition (XE) on Linux are not supported.

File Servers

Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of files and folders from the file servers managed by the following operating systems:

1 This version requires Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1 (build 12.1.0.2131) or later.

Unstructured Data Backup Support

Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of data from the following sources:

1 The object storage backup feature is available starting from Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1 (build 12.1.0.2131).

Requirements and Limitations for File Shares

Consider the following requirements and limitations for file shares:

In NFS settings of the source file share, you must explicitly specify what servers will have access to the file share.

  • SMB file share must run on SMB version 1.x, 2.x or 3.x.
  • To support the VSS for SMB File Shares feature, make sure that requirements listed in this Veeam KB article are met.
  • To correctly back up SACL (Ownership) files and folders from the SMB file share and restore them:
  1. When you are specifying access settings for the SMB file share, select the This share requires access credentials check box.
  2. Make sure that the account you use to Unstructured Data Backup access the file share is either added to the Backup Operators group or has the SeBackupPrivilege and SeRestorePrivilege privileges in Windows Server on the file share.

Requirements and Limitations for Object Storage

Consider the following limitations for object storage added as a source of unstructured data:

For more information on unstructured data backup, see the Unstructured Data Backup section.

Network

Consider the following requirements and limitations: