System Requirements for x64 Linux

Before you start using Veeam Plug-In for IBM Db2 on machines running Linux OSes based on the x64 architecture, make sure the requirements listed in this section are met.

Note

The following system requirements apply to Veeam Plug-In for IBM Db2 for x64 Linux operating in the standalone mode. The managed operation mode is not supported. For details on operation modes, see Standalone and Managed Operations Modes.

System Requirements for x64 Linux

Specification

Requirement

OS

Veeam Plug-In is supported for the following Linux distributions:

  • SLES 12 SP5
  • SLES 15: SP3, SP4, SP5, SP6 and SP7
  • RHEL 8: 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9 and 8.10
  • RHEL 9: 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5 and 9.6
  • CentOS 8: 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5
  • Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 (LTS) and 24.04

For additional information about supported Linux versions that are listed for supported configurations of IBM Db2, see this IBM article.

Software

The protected computer must have FUSE libraries installed:

  • [For SLES and Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 and 22.04] libfuse2
  • [For Ubuntu 24.04] libfuse2t64 or libfuse2
  • [For RHEL, Oracle Linux and CentOS] fuse-libs

IBM Db2

Veeam Plug-In for IBM Db2 supports the following configurations of IBM Db2:

  • Versions: 11.1, 11.5 and 12.1
  • Editions: Standard, Advanced
  • Environments: standalone servers, high availability disaster recovery (HADR), failover clusters

In HADR and failover cluster environments, Veeam Plug-In supports clustered databases managed with IBM Tivoli System Automation (TSA) or Pacemaker.

Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Backup & Replication 13.1 supports Veeam Plug-Ins starting from version 13. Previous versions of Veeam Plug-Ins are not supported.

Note that Veeam Backup & Replication must be the same or later than the version of Veeam Plug-In. If you want to use the latest functionality, you must upgrade both Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Plug-In to the latest version. If you use an earlier Veeam Plug-In build, 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.

To restore data from a backup, the version of Veeam Plug-In must be the same or later than the version that created the backup. Restore with an earlier version of Veeam Plug-In from a backup created with a later version is not supported and may cause the restore to fail. This limitation applies to build numbers, not only major versions. For example, you cannot use Veeam Plug-In build 13.0.1.2067 to restore data from a backup created with build 13.1.1.18.

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:

  • Windows New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM).

As NTLM is provided by Microsoft, only the Veeam Backup & Replication server running on the Microsoft Windows OS supports NTLM.

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