Platform Support

Platform

• vSphere 7.0*
• vSphere 6.x
• vSphere 5.5
• VMware Cloud on AWS
• VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

Hypervisor

• ESXi 7.0*
• ESXi 6.x
• ESXi 5.5

Free ESXi is not supported. Veeam Backup & Replication leverages vSphere and vStorage APIs that are disabled by VMware in free ESXi.

Management Server
(optional)

• vCenter Server 7.0* (optional)
• vCenter Server 6.x (optional)
• vCenter Server 5.5 (optional)

Virtual Hardware

• All types and versions of virtual hardware are supported, including 62 TB VMDK.
• Virtual machines with disks engaged in SCSI bus sharing are not supported for host-based backup, because VMware does not support snapshotting such VMs. To protect such VMs, use agent-based backup.
• RDM virtual disks in physical mode, independent disks, and disks connected through in-guest iSCSI initiator are not supported for host-based backup, and are skipped from processing automatically. If backup of these disks is required, use agent-based backup.

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.

OS

• All operating systems supported by VMware.
• Guest processing (which includes application-aware processing and indexing) is supported for Microsoft Windows 2008/Windows Vista or later except Nano Server, due to the absence of VSS framework.
• Guest processing (which includes application-aware processing and indexing) is supported for 64-bit versions of the following Linux operating systems:

• Debian 8–10.4
• Ubuntu 19.10, 20.04
• Ubuntu LTS: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
• RHEL 6.x–8.x
• CentOS 6.x–8.x
• Oracle Linux 6 (starting from UEK3)
• Oracle Linux 7, 8
• Fedora 30–32 (up to kernel version 5.7.7)
• openSUSE Leap 15.2
• SLES 11 SP4
• SLES 12 SP1–SP5
• SLES 15 SP0, SP1, SP21

Software

• VMware Tools (optional, recommended). VMware Tools are required for the following operations: application-aware processing, file-level restore from Microsoft Windows guest OS and SureBackup testing functions.
• Open VM Tools (OVT, optional). Open VM Tools are a set of services and modules used by VMware for interaction with VMs running Linux or other VMware supported Unix-like guest operating systems.
• All latest OS service packs and patches (required for application-aware processing).

vCloud Director

vCloud Director 8.20–10.1.1

Microsoft Windows

• FAT, FAT32
• NTFS
• ReFS (ReFS is supported only if Veeam Backup & Replication is installed on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 or later).

Windows file-level restore to original location is supported for Microsoft Windows 2008/Windows Vista or later except Nano Server.

Linux

• ext2, ext3, ext4
• ReiserFS
• JFS
• XFS
• Btrfs

DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Devices) are not supported.

BSD

UFS, UFS2

Mac

HFS, HFS+ (volumes up to 2 TB)

Micro Focus OES

File-level restore is supported for Micro Focus Open Enterprise Server (Micro Focus OES). Micro Focus NetWare is not supported (Veeam Backup & Replication may fail to detect NSS volumes).

AD-enabled NSS volumes on Open Enterprise Server 2015 are supported. Restore of NSS file/folder permissions is not supported.

Note: Starting from Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4a, restore of NSS trustee rights on files/folders is supported.

Solaris

• UFS
• ZFS (except any pool versions of Oracle Solaris)

The FLR appliance uses module ZFSonLinux version 0.7.0. For this reason, Veeam Backup & Replication supports only those versions of pools and features that are available in ZFSonLinux version 0.7.0.