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.

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

• Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 (x86_64, SPARC)
• IBM AIX 6.1, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3

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

Supported 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.

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 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.