System Requirements

OS

Veeam Plug-In for Oracle RMAN is supported for the following Microsoft Windows versions:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2025

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

Veeam Plug-In for Oracle RMAN is supported for the following x86_64 versions of Linux distributions:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5, 15 SP3 and SP7 (x86 and x86_64)
• RHEL 8.4 – 9.x and 10.0 including Extended Update Support Add-On
• Oracle Linux 7 – 9.x
• CentOS 6.4 – 8.x: For non-production environments, as it is not officially supported by Oracle for their databases.

Note: Veeam Plug-In for Oracle RMAN in managed operation mode is not supported for Oracle Solaris and IBM AIX.

Software

[For Microsoft Windows computers] Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 is included in the Veeam Plug-In for Oracle RMAN Redistributable. During the deployment process, Veeam Backup & Replication checks whether Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 is available on the target computer. If Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 is missing, Veeam Backup & Replication will install the missing software automatically.

[For Linux computers] The protected computer must have FUSE libraries installed:

• [For SLES] libfuse2
• [For RHEL, Oracle Linux and CentOS] fuse-libs

Oracle database

Veeam Plug-In for Oracle RMAN supports Standard and Enterprise Editions of the following Oracle Database versions:

• Oracle Database 23ai
• Oracle Database 21c
• Oracle Database 19c
• Oracle Database 18c
• Oracle Database 12c
• Oracle Database 11g Release 2

The Oracle database configuration must meet the following requirements:

• Oracle database must be in the OPEN state.
• Oracle database must work in the ARCHIVELOG mode.

Notes:

• Oracle Express Edition (XE) is not supported.
• Oracle databases residing in OS-level containerized environments (for example: Docker, Podman) are not supported.
• Support for Oracle Database 23ai is limited to virtual machines in cloud deployments (for example: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Exadata Cloud) and Oracle Engineered Systems (for example: Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database Appliance).

Oracle RMAN features

Veeam Plug-In for Oracle RMAN supports the following Oracle RMAN features:

• Veeam Plug-In will be registered as an SBT_TAPE device. All Oracle RMAN functionality that is supported with the SBT_TAPE device type will work. For example, Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) and Container DBs (CDBs).
• Veeam Plug-In supports Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC). Other cluster databases are not supported.

OS

Veeam Plug-In for SAP HANA supports 64-bit versions of the following distributions:

• SLES 15: SP3, SP4, SP5, SP6 and SP7
• SLES for SAP Applications 15: SP3, SP4, SP5, SP6 and SP7
• SLES 12 SP5

• SLES for SAP Applications 12 SP5
• RHEL 9 for SAP HANA: 9.0, 9.2, 9.4 and 9.6
• RHEL 8 for SAP HANA: 8.4, 8.6, 8.8 and 8.10
• RHEL 9 for SAP Solutions: 9.0, 9.2, 9.4 and 9.6
• RHEL 8 for SAP Solutions: 8.4, 8.6, 8.8 and 8.10

Note: Veeam Plug-In for SAP HANA in managed operation mode is not supported for Linux on Power.

Software

The protected computer must have FUSE libraries installed:

• [For SLES] libfuse2
• [For RHEL] fuse-libs

SAP HANA database

Veeam Plug-In for SAP HANA Veeam Plug-In for SAP HANA supports SAP HANA 2.0: SPS 02, SPS 03, SPS 04, SPS 05, SPS 06, SPS 07, SPS 08.

Notes:

• Only Backint version 1.0 is supported.
• SAP HANA Express Edition is not supported.
• To check whether an OS version is compatible with the SAP HANA release you want to use, see the SAP HANA Administration Guide (requires an SAP ID).

OS

Veeam Plug-In for SAP on Oracle is supported for the following distributions:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server versions 12 SP5 and 15 SP3 (x86_64)
• RHEL for SAP Applications versions 8.4 and 9 (x86_64)
• Oracle Linux versions 7 and 8

Software

The protected computer must have FUSE libraries installed:

• [For SLES] libfuse2
• [For RHEL and Oracle Linux] fuse-libs

Oracle database

Veeam Plug-In for SAP on Oracle supports Standard and Enterprise Editions of the following Oracle Database versions:

• 19c
• 18c
• 12c
• 11g Release 2

Note: Oracle Express Edition (XE) and Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) environment are not supported.

SAP software

Veeam Plug-In for SAP on Oracle supports BR*Tools version 7.20, Patch 42 or later.

Note: In the managed operation mode, Veeam Plug-In for SAP on Oracle does not support SAP Java systems.

OS

Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft SQL Server supports 64-bit versions of the following distributions:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2025
• Microsoft Windows Server 2022
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

Note: Server Core installations of Microsoft Windows Server OSes are not supported.

Microsoft SQL Server

Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft SQL Server supports the Standard, Developer, Web and Enterprise editions of the following Microsoft SQL Server versions:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2025
• Microsoft SQL Server 2022
• Microsoft SQL Server 2019
• Microsoft SQL Server 2017
• Microsoft SQL Server 2016
• Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP3

Notes:

• Standalone Microsoft SQL Servers are supported.
• SQL Server Express edition is not supported.
• Windows Server Failover Clusters are supported, both with shared disks and Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV).

• Always On availability groups, Always On clusterless availability groups and Always On failover cluster instances are supported. Contained availability groups and distributed availability groups are not supported.