System Requirements

Make sure that components in the plug-in management infrastructure meet the system requirements listed in this section.

Veeam Backup Server

For details on system requirements for the Veeam backup server and other Veeam Backup & Replication components, see System Requirements for Veeam Backup & Replication.

Computer with IRIS Instance

A computer with installed instances you want to protect using InterSystems IRIS must meet the following requirements:

  • Licensing: Veeam Universal License (VUL); Enterprise Plus edition or higher.
  • Platforms: VMware vSphere VMs with pass-through RDM, and physical machines.
  • Containerized deployments are not supported; the IRIS instance must run directly on the host.
  • Backup proxies: Linux-based proxies only.
  • Storage systems: must be compatible with USAPI.
Computer with IRIS Instance

Specification

Requirement

OS

InterSystems IRIS supports IRIS instance deployments running on the 64-bit versions of the following distributions:

  • RHEL 9.8 – 10.2
  • Ubuntu 22.04 – 24.04 LTS
  • SLES 15 SP6, 15 SP7

Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Backup & Replication 13 supports management of InterSystems IRIS. In version 13.0.2 and older, the entire .DAT file is processed even if only one block changes. For details, see [Incremental backup].

Database

InterSystems IRIS supports the following versions of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform:

  • 2025.3
  • 2025.2
  • 2025.1
  • 2024.1
  • 2023.1

File Systems

InterSystems IRIS supports consistent snapshot-based data backup for the following file systems:

  • XFS (DAT/WIJ)
  • Ext 4

Storage Systems

InterSystems IRIS supports IRIS instance deployments with integrated USAPI storage systems based on the OS of the backup server.

Microsoft Windows-based backup servers:

  • DataCore SANsymphony
  • Dell PowerMax
  • Dell PowerStore
  • Dell SC Series (formerly Compellent)
  • Fujitsu ETERNUS AF and DX Series
  • Hitachi VSP/VSP One Block
  • HPE XP
  • IBM FlashSystem (formerly Spectrum Virtualize, includes IBM StorWize and IBM SVC)
  • INFINIDAT Infinibox F-Series
  • NEC Storage M Series
  • NetApp SolidFire/HCI
  • Pure Storage FlashArray
  • Tintri IntelliFlash (formerly Western Digital IntelliFlash, Tegile)

Linux-based backup servers:

  • Hitachi VSP/VSP One Block
  • HPE XP
  • IBM FlashSystem (formerly Spectrum Virtualize, includes IBM StorWize and IBM SVC)

For more information on storage system models and connectivity, see Storage Systems.

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