Before You Begin

Before you create and start a recovery verification job, check the following prerequisites:

  • The availability of the feature depends on the license you use. For more details about licensing support, see Veeam Data Platform Feature Comparison.
  • All applications and services on which verified machines are dependent must be virtualized in your environment.
  • If you plan to scan machines data for malware, check requirements and limitations.
  • If you plan to verify machines with a ping test, the firewall on tested machines must allow ping requests.
  • If you plan to verify machines with a heartbeat test, Hyper-V Integration Services must be installed in tested machines.
  • If backup file that is used to add the machine to an application group cannot be found, Veeam Backup & Replication will search for other backup files containing this machine.
  • To open a console of a verified machine, you must have the RDP client version 7.0 and later installed on the backup server. The RDP client is pre-installed on Microsoft Windows 7 OS and later.
  • You cannot add to application groups VMs from backups created with backup copy jobs and backups stored in Cloud Connect backup repositories.

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