System Requirements for Linux on Power

Before you start using Veeam Plug-In for IBM Db2 on Linux machines running IBM Power Systems, make sure the following requirements are met.

Note

The following system requirements apply to Veeam Plug-In for IBM Db2 for Linux on Power 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 Linux on Power
Specification	Requirement
IBM Power	Veeam Plug-In for IBM Db2 for Linux on Power supports IBM Power systems with the processor generation Power9.
OS	For IBM Power 9, Veeam Plug-In for IBM Db2 for Linux on Power supports little endian (LE) versions of the following 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: 10.5, 11.1, 11.5 and 12.1 Editions: Standard, Advanced Environments: standalone servers, high availability disaster recovery (HADR), failover clusters In case of HADR and failover clusters, Veeam Plug-In supports the following cluster management software: TSA, Pacemaker for Linux OSes, PowerHA for IBM AIX.
Veeam Backup & Replication	Veeam Backup & Replication 13 supports different on versions of Veeam Plug-In depending on which OS is running on the backup server: Veeam Backup & Replication on Linux supports management of Veeam Plug-Ins 13. Management of previous versions of Veeam Plug-Ins is not supported. Veeam Backup & Replication on Microsoft Windows supports management of Veeam Plug-Ins 12.3.2.4165 and later. 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	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: Kerberos. To learn more, see Kerberos Authenticationkerberos_authentication. 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.