System Requirements

Before you start deploying Veeam Plug-in for oVirt KVM, make sure the virtual environment and the backup infrastructure components meet the following requirements.

Specification

Requirement

Hypervisor

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) must be installed on x86 hardware that supports virtualization capabilities.

Virtualization Platform

Veeam Plug-in for oVirt KVM supports the following virtual environments:

  • Red Hat Virtualization version 4.4 SP1 only (Red Hat Virtualization Manager version 4.5.0 or later).
  • Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager version 4.5.4 or later.

Veeam Software

Veeam Backup & Replication version 13.0.1.180 with Veeam Plug-in for oVirt KVM version 13.7.0.473 (or later) must be deployed on the backup server.

Workers

VMs running as workers must be allocated the following compute resources for each concurrent task:

  • CPU: 1 vCPU
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM

Version Compatibility

The following table lists compatible versions of Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Plug-in for oVirt KVM.

Product Release

Veeam Plug-in for oVirt KVM Build

Veeam Backup & Replication Build

7

13.7.0.473

13.0.1.180

6.2

12.6.2.6

12.3.2.3617

6.1

12.6.1.4

12.3.1.1139

6.0

12.6.0.166

12.3.0.310

5.0

12.5.0.299

12.2.0.334

4.1

12.4.1.45

12.1.2.172

4.0

12.4.0.385

12.1.0.2131
12.1.1.56

3b

12.2.3.19

12.0.0.1420

3a

12.1.3.431

3.0

12.0.3.412

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