System requirements
Veeam Backup & Replication supported environments
Virtualized infrastructure
VMware platforms
- vSphere 7.0
- vSphere 6.x
- vSphere 5.5
Virtual machines
- All operating systems supported by VMware
- Any application
- Any file system
Microsoft platforms
- Windows Server 2022
- Windows Server version 20H2
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Virtual machines
- All operating systems supported by Microsoft Hyper-V
- Any application
- Any file system
Nutanix AHV platforms1
- Nutanix AHV versions from 5.5.x to 5.19.x CE 2019.11.22 or later for Community Edition
Virtual machines
- All operating systems supported by Nutanix
- Any application
- Any file system
Nutanix AHV platforms1
- Nutanix AHV versions from 5.5.x to 5.19.x CE 2019.11.22 or later for Community Edition
Physical infrastructure3
Microsoft Windows3
- Client and Server editions
- 64-bit and 32-bit support
- Detailed list of all system
requirements
Release Notes
Linux3
- Linux kernel 2.6.32 or later
- 64-bit and 32-bit support
- Detailed list of all system
requirements
Release Notes
MAC
- 11.0-11.5 (Big Sur)
- 10.15 (Catalina)
- 10.14 (Mojave)
- 10.13 (High Sierra)
- Detailed list of all system
requirements
Release Notes
Oracle Solaris4
- Oracle Solaris 10-11.4
- Detailed list of all system
requirements
Release Notes
IBM AIX4
- IBM AIX 6.1 Technology Level 5 (TL 5) and above
- Detailed list of all system
requirements
Release Notes
Cloud infrastructure5
AWS
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
- Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
- Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
- Amazon S3 Glacier
- Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
Microsoft Azure
- Azure VMs
- Azure SQL Databases
- Azure Blob (hot, cool, and archive)
Google Cloud Platform
- Google Compute Engine VMs
- Google Cloud Storage (Standard, Archive)
Application support
Veeam Backup & Replication provides support for backing up and recovering many applications including the advanced features for the following:
1 Protecting Nutanix AHV workloads requires the installation of the Nutanix AHV Plug-In for Veeam Backup & Replication.
2 Protecting Red Hat Virtualization VMs requires the download and installation of Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization (now part of Veeam Backup & Replication)
3 Utilization of agent management functionality requires the installation of the redistributable package of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows v4 or later and/or
Veeam Agent for Linux v4 or later with Veeam Backup & Replication.
4 Utilization of agent license management functionality and platform services requires the use of Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris v2 or later, and/or Veeam Agent for IBM AIX v2 or later.
5 Protecting cloud-native workloads requires the deployment of the relevant appliance (Veeam Backup for AWS, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform).