Universal CDP

A workload that you plan to protect with Universal CDP must meet the following requirements.

Microsoft Windows-Based

Microsoft Windows-Based
Specification	Requirement
Hardware	CPU: x64. Memory: 2 GB RAM or more. Memory consumption varies depending on the number and size of processed disks. System firmware for Microsoft Windows: BIOS or UEFI. Disk layout: GPT.
OS	64-bit versions of the following operating systems are supported: Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Microsoft Windows Server 2016
File System	RAW, FAT, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS and ReFS

Linux-Based

Linux-Based
Specification	Requirement
Hardware	CPU: x64. Memory: 2 GB RAM or more. Memory consumption varies depending on the number and size of processed disks. System firmware for Linux: UEFI. Disk layout: GPT.
OS	Linux kernel version starting from 5.10 is supported. 64-bit versions of the following Linux distributions are supported: RHEL 9.4–9.7 and 10.0-10.2 (Veeam CDP Volume Filter Driver installed from binary pre-build package) Rocky Linux 9.4–9.7 and 10.0-10.2 (Veeam CDP Volume Filter Driver installed from binary pre-build package) Alma Linux 9.4–9.7 and 10.0-10.2 (Veeam CDP Volume Filter Driver installed from binary pre-build package) Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS and 26.04 LTS (Veeam CDP Volume Filter Driver installed from dkms package) For Debian, openSUSE, Oracle Linux, and other Linux-based OSes support is experimental.
File System	XFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, FAT16 and FAT32
Software	Protected computer must have the following components installed: libudev (for managing devices during CDP) libblkid (for managing devices during CDP) lvm2 (for LVM-related operations) python3 (for installing Veeam CDP)* * The python3 package or another RPM package providing a /usr/bin/python3 binary is required for RHEL 9.4 and later distributions if a pre-built binary veeamcdp kernel module package is to be installed. The following components are required only for filter driver installed from dkms packages: kernel-headers (for RHEL-based systems) kernel-devel (for RHEL-based systems) linux-headers (for Debian-based systems) linux-headers-amd64 (for Debian 13) kernel-uek-devel (for Oracle Linux systems with UEK) dkms gcc make perl Consider the following: To ensure proper functioning of the veeamcdp kernel module, verify that your system does not have any of the following modules installed: hcpdriver, snapapi26, snapapi, snapper, dattobd, dattobd-dkms, dkms-dattobd, cdr or cxbf. [For Debian 13] Universal CDP installs the latest version of linux-headers-amd64 with the matching kernel and its headers. This can cause the kernel to be upgraded, which might affect drivers or software that rely on a specific kernel version. After kernel upgrade, you may need to rebuild or reinstall any custom kernel modules that you have on the system. Version of the following packages varies according to the Linux kernel version that you use: linux-headers and linux-headers-amd64 (for Debian-based systems) kernel-headers (for RedHat-based systems) kernel-devel (for RedHat-based systems) kernel-uek-devel (for Oracle Linux systems with UEK)

For the full list of limitations and considerations, see Universal CDP - Considerations and Limitations.