System Requirements

Before you start using Veeam Plug-In for SAP on Oracle, make sure the following requirements are met.

Note

The following system requirements apply to Veeam Plug-In for SAP on Oracle operating in the standalone mode.

For more information on system requirements for Veeam Plug-In managed by Veeam Backup & Replication, see System Requirements for Managed Veeam Plug-Ins.

System Requirement
Specification	Requirement
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
SAP Software	Veeam Plug-In for SAP on Oracle supports BR*Tools version 7.20, Patch 42 or later.
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.
Veeam Backup & Replication	Veeam Backup & Replication 13 supports different on versions of Veeam Plug-In depending on which OS is running on the backup server: Veeam Backup & Replication on Linux supports management of Veeam Plug-Ins 13. Management of previous versions of Veeam Plug-Ins is not supported. Veeam Backup & Replication on Microsoft Windows supports management of Veeam Plug-Ins 12.3.2.4165 and later. Keep in mind that if you use an earlier Veeam Plug-In build than the one that is included in the installation ISO file of your Veeam Backup & Replication version, 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.
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 Authenticationkerberos_authentication. Windows New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM). As NTLM is provided by Microsoft, only the Veeam Backup & Replication server running on the Microsoft Windows OS supports NTLM.