System Requirements for IBM AIX

Before you start using Veeam Plug-In for IBM Db2 on machines running IBM AIX, make sure the requirements listed in this section are met.

Note

The following system requirements apply to Veeam Plug-In for IBM Db2 for IBM AIX operating in the standalone mode. The managed operation mode is not supported. For details on operation modes, see Standalone and Managed Operations Modes.

System Requirements for IBM AIX
Specification	Requirement
OS	Veeam Plug-In is supported for the following Unix versions: IBM AIX 6: 6.1 IBM AIX 7: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 For additional information about supported IBM AIX versions that are listed for supported configurations of IBM Db2, see this IBM article.
IBM Db2	Veeam Plug-In for IBM Db2 supports the following configurations of IBM Db2: Versions: 11.1, 11.5 and 12.1 Editions: Standard, Advanced Environments: standalone servers, high availability disaster recovery (HADR), failover clusters In HADR and failover cluster environments, Veeam Plug-In supports clustered databases managed with IBM PowerHA.
Veeam Backup & Replication	Veeam Backup & Replication 13.1 supports Veeam Plug-Ins starting from version 13. Previous versions of Veeam Plug-Ins are not supported. Note that Veeam Backup & Replication must be the same or later than the version of Veeam Plug-In. If you want to use the latest functionality, you must upgrade both Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Plug-In to the latest version. If you use an earlier Veeam Plug-In build, it may not have all the features and bug fixes introduced in your Veeam Backup & Replication version. To learn more about the Veeam Plug-In builds included in Veeam Backup & Replication installation ISO files, see this Veeam KB article. To restore data from a backup, the version of Veeam Plug-In must be the same or later than the version that created the backup. Restore with an earlier version of Veeam Plug-In from a backup created with a later version is not supported and may cause the restore to fail. This limitation applies to build numbers, not only major versions. For example, you cannot use Veeam Plug-In build 13.0.1.2067 to restore data from a backup created with build 13.1.1.18.
Network	Veeam Plug-In should be able to establish a direct IP connection to the Veeam Backup & Replication server. Thus, Veeam Plug-In cannot work with the Veeam Backup & Replication server that is located behind the NAT gateway. For communication between the Veeam backup infrastructure and servers that host databases to be backed up, one of the following authentication protocols is required: Kerberos. To learn more, see Kerberos Authentication. Keep in mind that Veeam Plug-In running on the Unix OS does not support Kerberos authentication. Windows New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM). As NTLM is provided by Microsoft, only the Veeam backup server running on the Microsoft Windows OS supports NTLM. If you have Veeam Plug-In running on the Unix OS and want to authenticate to a Veeam backup server running on Linux (Veeam Software Appliance), you cannot use domain accounts. In this case, you must use a local user account. We recommend specifying credentials for a local user account with the Service Account role. To learn more about available local user roles, see Configuring Users.