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Requirements and Limitations

Replication has the following requirements and limitations:

[For VMs with VHD disks] If you change the size of VM disks on the source VM, Veeam Backup & Replication will delete all available restore points on the VM replica during the next replication job session.

Off-host replication scenario is possible only for VMs located on a SAN storage with hardware VSS provider.

Replication of VMs with disabled checkpoints is not supported.

You cannot replicate VMs with shared VHDX and VHDS disks.

Due to Microsoft limitations, you cannot use Microsoft Azure Active Directory credentials to perform application-aware processing on VMs running Microsoft Windows 10 (or later).

The backup server must be able to resolve short names and connect to source and target virtualization hosts.

If a job is unable to complete within 21 days period, it will be stopped with the Failed status.