NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides data protection for the following platforms:
- VMware vSphere v4.1 - v7.0U1
- Microsoft Server with a Hyper-V Role 2019, 2016, 2012R2, 2012
- AWS EC2
- Nutanix AHV 5.10 (LTS)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012R2, 2012, 2008R2
- Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
- Linux Servers and workstations (see Physical machine requirements)
- Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online)
- Oracle Database (RMAN)
Make sure that your system has been updated with the latest patch.
To add a supported platform to the NAKIVO Backup & Replication, make sure all the necessary requirements are met.
Hypervisor Requirements
To provide data protection for your virtual environments, make sure the following requirements are met:
VMware vSphere
- Full administrative permissions (recommended), or limited permissions are required.
Microsoft Hyper-V
- Full GUI installation of Windows Server is required.
- Full administrative permissions are required.
- Default administrative shares must be enabled on Hyper-V hosts.
- The "File server" role must be enabled on Hyper-V hosts.
- The SMB 2 protocol should be enabled on Hyper-V hosts.
Nutanix AHV
- User admin or cluster admin permissions are required.
Physical Machine Requirements
To provide data protection for Windows physical machines, make sure they meet the following hardware and software requirements:
Hardware
- CPU: x86_64
- RAM: At least 1 GB
- Firmware: BIOS or UEFI
- Partition table: MBR or GPT
- Disk: up to 64 TB in size
Software
- Supported Windows operating systems:
- Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (x64)
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (x64)
Microsoft Windows Server 2012R2 (x64)
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (x64)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2 (x64)
- Supported workstations:
- Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (x64)
- Supported Windows File Systems:
- NTFS
ReFS
- Physical machines should be accessible over the network.
- Administrative credentials should be provided to the physical machine.
- PowerShell must be installed.
SMBv2 or higher version of SMB protocol must be enabled.
- Selected users should have permissions to "Log on as a batch job".
- Default administrative shares must be enabled on the physical machine and accessible over the network.
Note
In case a firewall is enabled, the corresponding rule for SMB-in needs to be enabled too.
- Supported Linux operating systems:
- Ubuntu v16.04-18.04 LTS (x64)
- RHEL v7.0-7.5 (x64)
- SLES v12 (x64)
- CentOS v7.0-7.6 (x64)
- Supported workstations:
- Ubuntu 18.04 (Desktop) LTS, 64-bit
- Ubuntu 20.04 (Desktop) LTS, 64-bit
- Supported Linux File Systems:
NTFS
Ext2
Ext3
Ext4
FAT32
XFS
Linux SWAP
ReiserFS
- Connection to the following TCP ports should be allowed by the firewall of the target system:
22 – Used by SSH for secure logins, file transfers (scp,sftp
) and port forwarding.
9446 – Used by NAKIVO Backup & Replication to communicate with the server. openssh-server
package should be installed.sshd
service should be running.root
login overssh
should be enabled if you use theroot
user. Check the/etc/ssh/sshd_config
file to have a line:PermitRootLogin yes
. Refer to Linux vendor documentation for more details./etc/pam.d/bhsvc
file with special permissions provided to the Transporter service is required. Refer to the Required Permissions for Linux Recovery Server knowledge base article for details.selinux
configuration should be set todisabled
if present. Refer to the File Recovery: Empty Disk knowledge base article for details.PasswordAuthentication
should be set to "Yes".- If you add a physical machine to the NAKIVO Backup & Replication inventory with a non-
root
account, the following is required:sudo
must be installed on the physical machine.- disable
requiretty
for non-root user accounts. Update theetc/sudoers
file to have a line:Defaults !requiretty
- Provided credentials should allow you to do anything without a password. Refer to the example below where a NAKIVO Backup & Replication user is taken.
Example
User privilege specificationroot ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
#Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
#Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
#See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
nakivo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
Defaults !requiretty
Public Cloud Requirements
Refer to Required AWS IAM Permissions for Amazon EC2 for details.
Note
There is also an option for granting full IAM permissions for the application.
Microsoft 365 Requirements
To provide data protection for your Microsoft 365, the following requirements must be met:
- Exchange Online must be purchased as a part of the Microsoft 365 plan or a standalone service.
- Provided Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online) credentials must have sufficient permissions to be used by the product.
- Microsoft 365 account must be accessible over the network.
- Connection to the 8081 TCP port should be allowed by the firewall on the machine housing the Transporter.
- To backup and restore Microsoft 365, a Transporter should be installed on one of the following operating systems:
Windows
- Windows Server 2019 Standard (x64)
- Windows Server 2016 Standard (x64)
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (x64)
- Update for Windows Server 2012 R2 (KB3179574)
- Windows Server 2012 Standard (x64)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (x64)
- Windows 10 Pro (x64)
- Windows 8 Professional (x64)
- Windows 7 Professional (x64)
Linux
- Ubuntu 18.04 Server (x64)
- Ubuntu 16.04 Server (x64)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 (x64)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 (x64)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 (x64)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 (x64)
Oracle Database Requirements
To provide data protection for your Oracle database, make sure of the following:
- Oracle database is accessible over the network.
- Provided Oracle database credentials have sufficient permissions to be used by the product.
- Provided OS credentials for the Oracle database have sufficient permissions to be used by the product.
- Oracle database must be set to ARCHIVELOG mode to create backups.
Supported operating systems:
- Windows Server 2016 Standard (x64)
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (x64)
- Update for Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2012 Standard (x64)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (x64)
Supported Oracle Database release versions:
- Oracle Database 19c
- Oracle Database 18c
- Oracle Database 12c R2
- Oracle Database 11g R2