Deployment Requirements

NAKIVO Backup & Replication can be deployed as a virtual appliance (VA) or installed directly onto a supported machine or network-attached storage (NAS). Below is the list of deployment requirements.

Hardware

VM or Physical Machine

NAKIVO Backup & Replication can be installed on a machine with the following minimum hardware characteristics:

Director and Onboard Transporter:

  • CPU: x86-64, 2 cores 
  • RAM: 4 GB + 250 MB for each concurrent task
    • For SaaS Backup Repository-related activities:
      • additional 2 GB
      • additional 100 MB for each concurrent Java Transporter task
  • Free space: 10 GB

Transporter only:

  • CPU: x86-64, 2 cores
  • RAM: 2 GB + 250 MB for each concurrent task
    • For SaaS Backup Repository-related activities:
      • additional 2 GB
      • additional 100 MB for each concurrent Java Transporter task
  • Free space: 5 GB

Network Attached Storage

NAKIVO Backup & Replication can be installed on supported NAS with the following minimum hardware characteristics:

Director and Onboard Transp