Supported Platforms, Applications and Workloads
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The information on this page is valid as of the date of the last page update. |
Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup and recovery operations for the following virtualization platforms:
Veeam Backup & Replication also supports backup and recovery for the following applications and workloads:
- Application-aware image processing and Veeam Explorers
- Veeam Plug-ins for Enterpise Applications
- Microsoft Entra ID Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication
VMware vSphere Virtual Infrastructure
Veeam Backup & Replication supports the following VMware vSphere platforms.
Specification | Requirement |
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Platform |
This platform is supported as individual VMware software components. VMware components listed on this page can be part of VCF. For the information on the correspondence of VMware components to the VCF version, see this VMware KB article.
For more information on GCVE support, see this Veeam KB article.
For more information on IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions support, see this Veeam KB article.
For more information on AVS support, see this Veeam KB article.
For more information on Oracle Cloud VMware Solutions support, see this Veeam KB article.
For more information on VMware Cloud on AWS support, see this Veeam KB article.
1 Backup and restore of 4Kn drives is not supported. |
Hypervisor |
Free ESXi is not supported. Veeam Backup & Replication leverages vSphere and vStorage APIs that are disabled by VMware in free ESXi. |
Management Server |
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Veeam Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
The following infrastructure requirements apply only when you protect VMs with Continuous Data Protection (CDP):
- VMware vSphere edition must be VMware vSphere Essentials Kits editions or higher.
- vCenter Server is required. Standalone ESXi hosts are not supported.
- Minimum ESXi version required is 7.0.
- Minimum 16GB RAM is required for source and target ESXi hosts.
- All hosts in a cluster must be of the same major version. For example, 7.x or 8.x (7.0.0, or 7.0.2, or a combination of 7.0.0 and 7.0.2 is supported).
- You can replicate data between vCenter Servers of different versions. However, if you replicate data within one vCenter Server, and this vCenter Server includes hosts of different versions (8 and 7), your CDP policy may fail. In this case, go to the vSphere Client and delete the Veeam CDP Replication VM storage policy applied to each VM included in the CDP policy. For more information on how to delete a VM storage policy, see VMware Docs. Then, in the Veeam Backup & Replication console, relaunch the CDP policy.
- The maximum number of disks per ESXi host is 500.
- Backup server, VMware CDP proxies, vCenter Server and ESXi hosts must be able to resolve each other DNS names.
- VMware Cloud on AWS is not supported.
For more information on Veeam CDP, its requirements and limitations, see Continuous Data Protection (CDP).
Specification | Requirement |
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Virtual Hardware |
Network shares and mount points targeted to 3rd party storage devices are also skipped as these volumes/disks are not visible in the VM configuration file. RDM virtual disks in virtual mode are supported to create backups based on VMware Changed Block Tracking technology, although there are some restrictions on the virtual disk restore operation. To learn more about them, see Restoring Virtual Disks. |
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File-level restore is supported for the following file systems, including Microsoft Windows Logical Disk Manager (LDM) dynamic disks and Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM):
OS | Supported File Systems |
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Microsoft Windows |
Windows file-level restore to original location is supported for the following Microsoft Windows operating systems except Nano Server:
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Linux |
DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Devices) are not supported. |
BSD | UFS, UFS2 |
Mac | HFS, HFS+ (volumes up to 2 TB) |
OpenText OES (formerly Micro Focus OES) | NSS AD-enabled NSS volumes on Open Enterprise Server 2015 are supported. Besides restore of standard file and folder permissions, restore of NSS trustee rights on files and folders is supported. File-level restore is supported for the following OSes:
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Solaris |
The helper appliance uses module ZFSonLinux version 2.1.5. For this reason, Veeam Backup & Replication supports only those versions of pools and features that are available in ZFSonLinux version 2.1.5. |
For other requirements and limitations of guest OS file restore, see Requirements and Limitations.
Specification | Requirement |
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VMware Cloud Director | VMware Cloud Director 10.4 to 10.6 |
Hyper-V Virtual Infrastructure
Veeam Backup & Replication provides support for the following versions of the Microsoft Hyper-V platform.
Specification | Requirement |
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For the supported versions, see this Veeam KB article.
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Hypervisor |
Server Core installations are fully supported. Microsoft Nano Server with Hyper-V role installed cannot be added to the backup infrastructure as a managed server and no role can be assigned to it. However, you can back up and replicate such servers, but application-aware processing is not supported for them. Note that you must keep your servers up-to-date. |
Management Server (optional) |
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1 Windows 10/11 is supported only as a target for Instant Recovery and as a host on which a virtual lab for SureBackup jobs can be created.
Specification | Requirement |
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OS | All operating systems supported by Hyper-V. Guest processing is supported for OS versions released before the Veeam Backup & Replication build release date. Note: You can back up VMs of Hyper-V clusters in rolling upgrade. However, Veeam Backup & Replication does not use the Resilient Changed Tracking mechanism in such scenario. To perform backup with RCT enabled, make sure your Microsoft Hyper-V environment meets these requirements. It is recommended to complete the rolling upgrade within four weeks. For more information, see Microsoft Docs. |
Software | Hyper-V integration components (optional, required for application-aware processing). |
Consider the following:
- [For Microsoft Windows 2003 and Nano Server] Application-aware processing is not supported due to the absence of VSS framework.
- [For Hyper-V 2016 and later] Application-aware processing for Microsoft Windows VMs with volumes larger than 64 TB is not supported, because Veeam Backup & Replication uses the Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider to create a volume shadow copy during the backup or replication. For more information, see this Microsoft KB article.
- [For Hyper-V 2016 and later] Veeam Backup & Replication cannot interact with the guest OS of a shielded VM and get information about its OS, IP address and so on. For this reason, the following operations are not supported for shielded VMs:
- Application-aware image processing
- Restore of VM guest OS files to the original location
- Restore of application items to the original location
- [For Hyper-V 2016 and later] Shielded VMs can run only on trusted hosts guarded with the Host Guardian Service. Consider that when selecting a target host for VM replication or VM restore. If the target host is not guarded with the same Host Guardian Service as the source host, you will not be able to power on the replicated or restored VM.
- The two previous limitations also apply to Generation 1 of Microsoft Hyper-V VMs that use Key Storage Drive. For more information about Key Storage Drive, see Microsoft Docs.
- Guest processing (which includes application-aware processing and indexing) is supported for 64-bit versions of the following Linux operating systems:
- Debian 11.0 to 12.2
- Oracle Linux 7 (UEK3) to 9 (UEK R7)
- Oracle Linux 7 to 9 (RHCK)
- RHEL 8.4 to 9.6
- SLES 12 SP5 or later, 15 SP3 or later
- Ubuntu: 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS
File-level restore is supported for the following file systems, including Microsoft Windows LDM dynamic disks and Linux LVM:
OS | Supported File Systems |
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Microsoft Windows |
Windows file-level restore to original location is supported for the following Microsoft Windows operating systems except Nano Server:
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Linux |
DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Devices) are not supported. |
BSD | UFS, UFS2 |
Mac | HFS, HFS+ (volumes up to 2 TB) |
Solaris |
The helper appliance uses module ZFSonLinux version 0.7.0. For this reason, Veeam Backup & Replication supports only those versions of pools and features that are available in ZFSonLinux version 0.7.0. |
For other requirements and limitations of guest OS file restore, see Requirements and Limitations.
Veeam Plug-in for Nutanix AHV is a solution developed for protection and disaster recovery tasks for the Nutanix AHV environment. For more information on Veeam Plug-in for Nutanix AHV features and system requirements, see the Veeam Plug-in for Nutanix AHV User Guide.
Veeam Plug-in for Proxmox VE is a solution developed for protection and disaster recovery tasks for Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE). For more information on Veeam Plug-in for Proxmox VE features and system requirements, see the Veeam Plug-in for Proxmox VE User Guide.
Application-Aware Image Processing and Veeam Explorers
You can create transactionally-consistent backups or replicas of VMs that run the following applications.
Application | Requirement |
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Microsoft Active Directory | Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of domain controllers for the following operating systems:
Minimum supported domain and forest functional level is Windows 2012 R2. |
Microsoft Exchange | Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of the following Microsoft Exchange versions:
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Microsoft SharePoint | Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of the following versions of Microsoft SharePoint Server (virtualized either on VMware or Hyper-V platform):
All editions are supported (Subscription, Foundation, Standard, Enterprise). Restore of Microsoft SharePoint data may require an available staging Microsoft SQL Server. To learn how to configure this server, see the Staging SQL Server Settings section of the Veeam Explorers User Guide. |
Microsoft SQL Server | Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of the following Microsoft SQL Server versions:
All editions of Microsoft SQL Server except LocalDB are supported. The database whose logs you want to back up must use the Full or Bulk-logged recovery model. In this case, all changes of the Microsoft SQL Server state will be written to transaction logs, and you will be able to replay transaction logs to restore the Microsoft SQL Server. You can use the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio to switch to one of these models. For more information, see Microsoft Docs. Restore of Microsoft SQL Server data may require an available staging Microsoft SQL Server. To learn how to configure this server, see the Configuring Staging SQL Server section of the Veeam Explorers User Guide. |
Oracle on Windows OS | Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of Oracle Database running on the following Microsoft Windows operating systems:
Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of the following Oracle Database versions on Microsoft Windows machines:
Starting from version 12.3 (build 12.3.0.310), Veeam Backup & Replication supports the backup of Windows-based VMs with several Oracle homes of different versions. |
Oracle on Linux OS | Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of Oracle Database running on the following Linux distributions:
Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of the following Oracle Database versions on Linux machines:
Starting from version 12.1 (build 12.1.0.2131), Veeam Backup & Replication supports the backup of Linux-based VMs with several Oracle homes of different versions. |
Oracle Database configuration | Consider the following:
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PostgreSQL | Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of the following PostgreSQL versions on Linux machines:
Veeam Backup & Replication does not support backup of PostgreSQL clusters. |
MongoDB | Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup of the following MongoDB versions:
For more information, see MongoDB Backup. |
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Consider that 32-bit Oracle running on 64-bit operating systems and Oracle Express Edition (XE) on Linux are not supported. |
Veeam Plug-ins for Enterpise Applications
Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications further enhance Veeam Backup & Replication by enabling transactionally consistent backups of SAP HANA, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server databases.
For more information on Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications, see Databases and Enterprise Applications.
Veeam Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft SQL Server 2022
- Microsoft SQL Server 2019
- Microsoft SQL Server 2017
- Microsoft SQL Server 2016
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP3
Standard, Enterprise, Web, Developer editions of Microsoft SQL Server are supported.
Veeam Plug-in Toolbar requires Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 21.x.
Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN
- Oracle Database 23ai*
- Oracle Database 21c
- Oracle Database 19c
- Oracle Database 18c
- Oracle Database 12c
- Oracle Database 11g Release 2
Oracle Express Edition (XE) is not supported.
Oracle databases residing in OS-level containerized environments (for example: Docker, Podman) are not supported.
* Oracle Database 23ai support is limited to virtual machines in cloud deployments (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Exadata Cloud) and On-Premises Engineered Systems (Oracle Exadata and Oracle Database Appliance).
Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA
- SAP HANA 2.0: SPS 02, SPS 03, SPS 04, SPS 05, SPS 06, SPS 07, SPS 08
Only Backint version 1.0 is supported
Express Edition is not supported.
Veeam Plug-in for SAP on Oracle
- Oracle Database: 11gR2, 12c, 18c, 19c
- BR*Tools: 7.20 Patch 42 or later
Veeam Plug-in for IBM Db2
- IBM Db2 12.1
- IBM Db2 11.5
- IBM Db2 11.1
- IBM Db2 10.5
Editions: Standard, Advanced
Microsoft Entra ID Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication
Veeam Backup for Microsoft Entra ID is a solution developed for protection and disaster recovery tasks for Microsoft Entra ID.
For more information, see the User Guide for Microsoft Entra ID.
Microsoft Entra ID Backup Repository
- PostgreSQL 17.x
- PostgreSQL 16.x
- PostgreSQL 15.x
- PostgreSQL 14.x
The following object storage sources are supported:
- Amazon S3 object storage
- Microsoft Azure Blob storage including
- Azure Data Lake Gen2 storage (HNS)
- S3-compatible object storage
Requirements and Limitations for Object Storage
Consider the following limitations for object storage added as a source of unstructured data:
- Veeam Backup & Replication does not support backup from and restore to the following types of Azure Blob Storage: Azure Data Box Storage, Azure Stack Edge.
- Veeam Backup & Replication does not support backup from and restore to AWS Snowball Edge Storage.
- Veeam Backup & Replication does not support backup from and restore to Veeam Data Cloud Vault.
For more information on unstructured data backup, see the Unstructured Data Backup section.
The following file share sources are supported:
- SMB version 1.x, 2.x or 3.x.
- NFS protocol version 3 or 4.1.
Requirements and Limitations for File Shares
Consider the following requirements and limitations for file shares:
- Only 64-bit versions of operating systems are supported for managed Microsoft Windows or Linux server file share.
- Backup of file shares on Linux hosts added with single use credentials is not supported.
- NFS file share must run NFS protocol version 3 or 4.1. Parallel NFS (pNFS) is not supported.
- Network shares and files on them targeted to 3rd party storage devices may have difficulties being restored, or may not be restored at all. Such shares/files often rely upon specific software/OS filters to be recalled from the alternate storage location, which is not available when performing a file share data recovery. See your software vendor documentation to learn how to back up such files.
- Anonymous or AD/Kerberos authentication is not supported for access to file shares through NFS.
In NFS settings of the source file share, you must explicitly specify what servers will have access to the file share.
- SMB file share must run on SMB version 1.x, 2.x or 3.x.
- To support the VSS for SMB File Shares feature, make sure that requirements listed in this Veeam KB article are met.
- To correctly back up SACL (Ownership) files and folders from the SMB file share and restore them:
- When you are specifying access settings for the SMB file share, select the This share requires access credentials check box.
- Make sure that the account you use to Unstructured Data Backup access the file share is either added to the Backup Operators group or has the SeBackupPrivilege and SeRestorePrivilege privileges in Windows Server on the file share.
The following Microsoft Windows operating systems are supported:
- Microsoft Windows Server 2025
- Microsoft Windows Server 2022
- Microsoft Windows Server 2019
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016
- Microsoft Windows 11 (versions 22H2, 23H2, 24H2)
- Microsoft Windows 10 22H2
- Microsoft Windows 10 LTSC 2021
64-bit versions of the following Linux distributions are supported:
- Debian 11.0 to 12.11
- Oracle Linux 7 to 10
- RHEL 8.6 to 9.6
- Rocky Linux 9.4 to 9.6
- SLES 12 SP5, 15 SP3
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS
The following enterprise NAS systems are supported:
- NetApp Data ONTAP with ONTAP cluster-mode versions from 9.10 up to 9.16.1
- Lenovo ThinkSystem DM/DG Series with ONTAP cluster-mode versions 9.10 to 9.16.1
- Dell PowerScale (formerly Isilon) with OneFS versions 8.1.2 to 9.11
- Nutanix Files Storage versions 3.8.1.3 to 5.0
To back up physical, virtual, or cloud-based machines machines running Microsoft Windows, Linux, Unix or macOS operating systems, Veeam Backup & Replication allows remote deployment and central administration of Veeam Agents.
For more information on system requirements for Veeam Agent management components, see the followings sections:
- System Requirements for Microsoft Windows Computers
- System Requirements for Linux Computers
- System Requirements for Unix Computers
- System Requirements for Mac Computers
Consider the following requirements and limitations:
- Names of port groups/segments/networks must be unique.
- [For VMware vSphere] VMware NSX-T 2.3 or later is supported with N-VDS for VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS/Dell.
- [For VMware vSphere] VMware NSX-T 3.0 or later is supported with VDS for VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS/Dell.
- [For VMware vSphere] VMware NSX-V is supported (see details on the support of vSphere and VMware Cloud version in VMware vSphere Virtual Infrastructure).