VMware vSphere

Platform

• vSphere 9.01
• vSphere 8.x
• vSphere 7.x
• VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

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.

• Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE)

For more information on GCVE support, see this Veeam KB article.

• IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

For more information on IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions support, see this Veeam KB article.

• Microsoft Azure VMware Solution (AVS)

For more information on AVS support, see this Veeam KB article.

• Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

For more information on Oracle Cloud VMware Solutions support, see this Veeam KB article.

• VMware Cloud on AWS

For more information on VMware Cloud on AWS support, see this Veeam KB article.

• VMware Cloud on Dell

1 Backup and restore of 4Kn drives is not supported.

Hypervisor

• vSphere 9.0

• ESXi 8.x
• ESXi 7.x

Free ESXi is not supported. Veeam Backup & Replication leverages vSphere and vStorage APIs that are disabled by VMware in free ESXi.

Management Server
(optional)

• vCenter Server or vCenter Server Appliance 9.0 (optional)
• vCenter Server or vCenter Server Appliance 8.x (optional)
• vCenter Server or vCenter Server Appliance 7.x (optional)

Virtual Hardware

• All types and versions of virtual hardware are supported, including 62 TB VMDK.
• Virtual machines with virtual NVDIMM devices, with virtual disks engaged in SCSI bus sharing or residing on PMem datastores are not supported for VM backup, because VMware does not support snapshotting such VMs. To protect such VMs, use Veeam Agent backup.
• RDM virtual disks in physical mode, independent disks, and disks connected through in-guest iSCSI initiator are not supported for VM backup, and are skipped from processing automatically. If backup of these disks is required, use Veeam Agent backup.

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.

OS

• All operating systems supported by VMware. Guest processing is supported for OS versions released before the Veeam Backup & Replication build release date.

• Guest processing (which includes application-aware processing and indexing) is supported for the following Microsoft Windows operating systems except Nano Server:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 SP1 or later
• Microsoft Windows 10 22H2 for GA channel or later
• Microsoft Windows 10 1507 for LTSB/LTSC channels or later
• Microsoft Windows 11 22H2 or later.

• Guest processing (which includes application-aware processing and indexing) is supported for 64-bit versions of the following Linux operating systems:

• Alma Linux 8.10 and 9.4
• Debian 11.0 to 13.1
• Oracle Linux 7 (UEK 3) to 9.6 (UEK 8)
• Oracle Linux 7 to 9.6 (UEK/RHCK)
• RHEL 8.4 to 10
• Rocky Linux 8.10, 9.4 and 9.6
• SLES 12 SP5 or later, 15 SP3 or later
• Ubuntu: 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS

Software

• For Linux operating systems, GLIBC 2.16 or later. GLIBC is used for the following operations: application-aware processing, file-level restore to Linux guest OS, installing persistent agent components, and adding VM as a managed server.
• VMware Tools (optional, recommended). VMware Tools are required for the following operations: application-aware processing, file-level restore from Microsoft Windows guest OS, and SureBackup testing functions.
• Open VM Tools (OVT, optional). Open VM Tools are a set of services and modules used by VMware for interaction with VMs running Linux or other VMware supported Unix-like guest operating systems.
• All latest OS service packs and patches (required for application-aware processing).

Microsoft Windows

• FAT, FAT32
• NTFS
• ReFS

Windows file-level restore to original location is supported for the following Microsoft Windows operating systems except Nano Server:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 SP1 or later
• Microsoft Windows 10 22H2 for GA channel or later
• Microsoft Windows 10 1507 for LTSB/LTSC channels or later
• Microsoft Windows 11 22H2 or later.

Linux

• ext2, ext3, ext4
• ReiserFS
• JFS
• XFS
• Btrfs
• NTFS

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:

• Open Enterprise Server (OES) versions 2015(SP1), 2018(SP1-SP3). Versions 2023, 24.1, 24.4 and 25.4 are supported with limitations. For more information, see this Veeam KB article.
• NetWare 6.5 (only restore to a new location is supported)

Solaris

• UFS
• ZFS (except any pool versions of Oracle 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.

VMware Cloud Director

VMware Cloud Director 10.4 to 10.6