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System Requirements

Before you start using Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN, make sure the following requirements are met.

Supported OSes

Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN is supported for the following OSes:

Microsoft Windows:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2012/2012 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2016
Microsoft Windows Server 2019

Note

The Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN installation wizard also installs Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 if it does not detect this component on the machine during the product installation.

Linux:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, 12, 15 (x86 and x86_64)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4–8.x (x86 and x86_64)
Oracle Linux 6.4–8.x (x86 and x86_64)
CentOS 6.4–8.x (x86 and x86_64): For non-production environments, as it is not officially supported by Oracle for their databases.

Unix:

Oracle Solaris 10, 11 (x86_64, SPARC)
AIX 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

Oracle Database

Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN supports Oracle Database 11gR2, 12c, 18c, 19c, 21с: Standard and Enterprise Edition (Express Edition is not supported).

Supported Oracle RMAN features

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

Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN 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, Oracle ASM and Container DBs (CDBs).
Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN supports Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC). Other cluster databases are not supported.

Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Backup & Replication supports the latest two major versions of Veeam Plug-ins. For example, Veeam Backup & Replication 11a supports Veeam Plug-in 11a and 11. 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

Consider the following:

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.
If you set data encryption with network traffic rules on the Veeam Backup & Replication side, data encryption does not apply to traffic between Veeam Plug-ins and other Veeam components.