Supported Platforms and Applications
Veeam Backup & Replication supports the following virtualization platforms:
- VMware vSphere
- Azure Stack HCI
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Proxmox VE
- Nutanix AHV
- Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager
- Red Hat Virtualization
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The information on this page is valid as of the date of the last page update. |
VMware vSphere Virtual Infrastructure
Veeam Backup & Replication supports the following VMware vSphere platforms.
Specification | Requirement |
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Platform |
This platform is supported as individual VMware software components. VMware components listed on this page can be part of VCF. For the information on the correspondence of VMware components to the VCF version, see this VMware KB article.
For more information on GCVE support, see this Veeam KB article.
For more information on IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions support, see this Veeam KB article.
For more information on AVS support, see this Veeam KB article.
For more information on Oracle Cloud VMware Solutions support, see this Veeam KB article.
For more information on VMware Cloud on AWS support, see this Veeam KB article.
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Hypervisor |
Free ESXi is not supported. Veeam Backup & Replication leverages vSphere and vStorage APIs that are disabled by VMware in free ESXi. |
Management Server |
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Veeam Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
The following infrastructure requirements apply only when you protect VMs with Continuous Data Protection (CDP):
- VMware vSphere edition must be VMware vSphere Essentials Kits editions or higher.
- vCenter Server is required. Standalone ESXi hosts are not supported.
- Minimum ESXi version required is 6.5 U2.
- Minimum 16GB RAM is required for source and target ESXi hosts.
- Continuous Data Protection for VMware Cloud Director supports target ESXi hosts version 7.0 or later. Target hosts of version 6.5 and 6.7 are not supported.
- All hosts in a cluster must be of the same major version: 7.x or 6.x (6.5, or 6.7, or a combination of 6.5 and 6.7 is supported). In turn, all clusters managed by the same vCenter Server must also be of the same major version.
- You can replicate data between vCenter Servers of different versions. However, if you replicate data within one vCenter Server, and this vCenter Server includes hosts of different versions (6.5 and 6.7), your CDP policy may fail. In this case, go to the vSphere Client and delete the Veeam CDP Replication VM storage policy applied to each VM included in the CDP policy. For more information on how to delete a VM storage policy, see VMware Docs. Then, in the Veeam Backup & Replication console, relaunch the CDP policy.
- The maximum number of disks per ESXi host is 500.
- Backup server, VMware CDP proxies, vCenter Server and ESXi hosts must be able to resolve each other DNS names.
- VMware Cloud on AWS is not supported.
For more information on Veeam CDP, its requirements and limitations, see Continuous Data Protection (CDP).
Specification | Requirement |
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Virtual Hardware |
Network shares and mount points targeted to 3rd party storage devices are also skipped as these volumes/disks are not visible in the VM configuration file. RDM virtual disks in virtual mode are supported to create backups based on VMware Changed Block Tracking technology, although there are some restrictions on the virtual disk restore operation. To learn more about them, see Restoring Virtual Disks. |
OS |
Note that persistent agent components can be installed only on 64-bit versions of these Linux operating systems. |
Software |
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File-level restore is supported for the following file systems, including Microsoft Windows Logical Disk Manager (LDM) dynamic disks and Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM):
OS | Supported File Systems |
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Microsoft Windows |
Windows file-level restore to original location is supported for Microsoft Windows 2008/Windows Vista or later except Nano Server. |
Linux |
DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Devices) are not supported. |
BSD | UFS, UFS2 |
Mac | HFS, HFS+ (volumes up to 2 TB) |
Micro Focus OES | NSS AD-enabled NSS volumes on Open Enterprise Server 2015 are supported. Besides restore of standard file and folder permissions, restore of NSS trustee rights on files and folders is supported. File-level restore is supported for the following OSes:
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Solaris |
The helper appliance uses module ZFSonLinux version 2.1.5. For this reason, Veeam Backup & Replication supports only those versions of pools and features that are available in ZFSonLinux version 2.1.5. |
For other requirements and limitations of guest OS file restore, see Requirements and Limitations.
Specification | Requirement |
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VMware Cloud Director | VMware Cloud Director 10.1 to 10.6 Note that if your backup server is based on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 or an earlier version, VMware Cloud Director servers cannot be added or used. |
Veeam Backup & Replication provides support for the Microsoft Hyper-V platform including Azure Stack HCI. For more information on supported versions and VM requirements, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V.
Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE is a solution developed for protection and disaster recovery tasks for Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE). For more information on Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE features and system requirements, see the Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE User Guide.
Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV is a solution developed for protection and disaster recovery tasks for the Nutanix AHV environment. For more information on Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV features and system requirements, see the Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV User Guide.
Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization Platforms
Veeam Backup for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization is a solution developed for protection and disaster recovery tasks for oVirt KVM environments. For more information on Veeam Backup for OLVM and RHV features and system requirements, see the Veeam Backup for OLVM and RHV User Guide.
You can create transactionally-consistent backups or replicas of VMs that run the following applications.
Application | Requirement |
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Microsoft Active Directory | Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of domain controllers for the following operating systems:
Minimum supported domain and forest functional level is Windows 2008. |
Microsoft Exchange | Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of the following Microsoft Exchange versions:
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Microsoft SharePoint | Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of the following versions of Microsoft SharePoint Server (virtualized either on VMware or Hyper-V platform):
All editions are supported (Subscription, Foundation, Standard, Enterprise). Restore of Microsoft SharePoint data may require an available staging Microsoft SQL Server. To learn how to configure this server, see the Staging SQL Server Settings section of the Veeam Explorers User Guide. |
Microsoft SQL Server | Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of the following Microsoft SQL Server versions:
All editions of Microsoft SQL Server except LocalDB are supported. The database whose logs you want to back up must use the Full or Bulk-logged recovery model. In this case, all changes of the Microsoft SQL Server state will be written to transaction logs, and you will be able to replay transaction logs to restore the Microsoft SQL Server. You can use the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio to switch to one of these models. For more information, see Microsoft Docs. Restore of Microsoft SQL Server data may require an available staging Microsoft SQL Server. To learn how to configure this server, see the Configuring Staging SQL Server section of the Veeam Explorers User Guide. |
Oracle on Windows OS | Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of Oracle Database running on the following Microsoft Windows operating systems:
Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of the following Oracle Database versions on Microsoft Windows machines:
Starting from version 12.3 (build 12.3.0.310), Veeam Backup & Replication supports the backup of Windows-based VMs with several Oracle homes of different versions. |
Oracle on Linux OS | Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of Oracle Database running on the following Linux distributions:
Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of the following Oracle Database versions on Linux machines:
Starting from version 12.1 (build 12.1.0.2131), Veeam Backup & Replication supports the backup of Linux-based VMs with several Oracle homes of different versions. |
Oracle Database configuration | Consider the following:
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PostgreSQL | Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of the following PostgreSQL versions on Linux machines:
Veeam Backup & Replication does not support backup of PostgreSQL clusters. |
Note |
Consider that 32-bit Oracle running on 64-bit operating systems and Oracle Express Edition (XE) on Linux are not supported. |
Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of files and folders from the file servers managed by the following operating systems:
- 64-bit versions of the Microsoft Windows operating systems:
- Microsoft Windows Server 2025
- Microsoft Windows Server 2022
- Microsoft Windows Server 2019
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Microsoft Windows 11 (versions 21H2, 22H2, 23H2, 24H2)
- Microsoft Windows 10 (versions 1909 to 22H2)
- Microsoft Windows 10 LTS (versions LTSB 1607, LTSC 1809, LTSC 2021)
- 64-bit versions of the Linux operating systems:
- CentOS 7.x
- Debian 10.0 to 12.2
- Oracle Linux 7 (UEK3) to 9 (UEK R7)
- Oracle Linux 7 to 9 (RHCK)
- RHEL 7.0 to 9.3
- SLES 12 SP4 or later, 15 SP1 or later
- Ubuntu: 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS, and 22.04 LTS
Unstructured Data Backup Support
Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of data from the following sources:
- Object storage repositories:
- S3 compatible object storage repositories
- Amazon S3 object storage
- Microsoft Azure Blob storage including Azure Data Lake storage Gen2
- Managed Microsoft Windows or Linux server
- Enterprise NAS systems: NetApp Data ONTAP, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM/DG Series, Dell PowerScale (formerly Isilon), Nutanix Files Storage
- NFS file shares
- SMB file shares
Requirements and Limitations for File Shares
Consider the following requirements and limitations for file shares:
- Only 64-bit versions of operating systems are supported for managed Microsoft Windows or Linux server file share.
- Backup of file shares on Linux hosts added with single use credentials is not supported.
- NFS file share must run NFS protocol version 3 or 4.1. Parallel NFS (pNFS) is not supported.
- Network shares and files on them targeted to 3rd party storage devices may have difficulties being restored, or may not be restored at all. Such shares/files often rely upon specific software/OS filters to be recalled from the alternate storage location, which is not available when performing a file share data recovery. See your software vendor documentation to learn how to back up such files.
- Anonymous or AD/Kerberos authentication is not supported for access to file shares through NFS.
In NFS settings of the source file share, you must explicitly specify what servers will have access to the file share.
- SMB file share must run on SMB version 1.x, 2.x or 3.x.
- To support the VSS for SMB File Shares feature, make sure that requirements listed in this Veeam KB article are met.
- To correctly back up SACL (Ownership) files and folders from the SMB file share and restore them:
- When you are specifying access settings for the SMB file share, select the This share requires access credentials check box.
- Make sure that the account you use to Unstructured Data Backup access the file share is either added to the Backup Operators group or has the SeBackupPrivilege and SeRestorePrivilege privileges in Windows Server on the file share.
Requirements and Limitations for Object Storage
Consider the following limitations for object storage added as a source of unstructured data:
- Veeam Backup & Replication does not support backup from and restore to the following types of Azure Blob Storage: Azure Data Box Storage, Azure Stack Edge.
- Veeam Backup & Replication does not support backup from and restore to AWS Snowball Edge Storage.
For more information on unstructured data backup, see the Unstructured Data Backup section.
Consider the following requirements and limitations:
- Names of port groups/segments/networks must be unique.
- VMware NSX-T 2.3 or later is supported with N-VDS for VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS/Dell.
- VMware NSX-T 3.0 or later is supported with VDS for VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS/Dell.
- VMware NSX-V is supported (see details on the support of vSphere and VMware Cloud version in VMware vSphere Virtual Infrastructure).