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Requirements Documents: IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments

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Abstract

This document contains links for all of the IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments hardware and software requirements documents.

Content

Note: The product now known as IBM Storage Protect was named IBM Spectrum Protect in levels earlier than 8.1.19. To learn more about the brand change, see IBM Spectrum brand change to IBM Storage.
Note: Requirement pages are published at the announced date. All other pages are published at the GA date.
 

This document is divided into linked sections. Use the following links to go to the section of the document that you require.
 

Overview table for Data Protection for VMware

The following table provides an overview of the operating system levels are supported by the Data Protection for VMware. For the most current details about each component's operating system support, including hardware requirements, click the several levels.

Data Protection for VMware
Release 8.1
Latest fix pack 8.1.22
VDDK VDDK 8.0.2 (beginning with 8.1.21)
vSphere vSphere 8.0 (beginning with 8.1.17)
vSphere 7.0 (beginning with 8.1.10)
vSphere 6.7 (beginning with 8.1.6)
 
Operating system support on Windows x64 Data mover* Mount proxy* Recovery agent* GUI*
Windows Server
Essentials, Standard, and Datacenter Editions

Windows Server 2016: beginning with 8.1.4
Windows Server 2019: beginning with 8.1.10
Windows Server 2022: beginning with 8.1.17

 		 2016
2019
2022		 2016
2019
2022		 2016
2019
2022		 2016
2019
2022
Operating system support on Linux x86_64 Data mover* Mount proxy* Recovery agent* GUI*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Client and Server Editions

RHEL 8: beginning with 8.1.10
 		 RHEL 7.9
RHEL 8.1		 RHEL 7.9
RHEL 8.1		 RHEL 7.9
RHEL 8.1		 RHEL 7.9
RHEL 8.1
SUSE Enterprise Linux (SLES)
Desktop and Server Editions

SLES 15: beginning with 8.1.8
 		 SLES 12 SP5
SLES15 SP1		 SLES 12 SP5
SLES15 SP1		 SLES 12 SP5
SLES15 SP1		 SLES 12 SP5
SLES15 SP1

* Later maintenance and modification levels to the operating system version are also supported.

Note:

  1. The operating systems listed in the functional component columns are supported if they are also supported by the VDDK level.
  2. Data Protection for VMware 8.1.10 and later functional components cannot support RHEL 6 and SLES 11 since those operating systems are not supported by VDDK 7.0. RHEL 6.x and SLES 11.x was supported until Data Protection for VMware 8.1.9.
  3. Data Protection for VMware 8.1.10 and later cannot support vSphere 6.0, since this vSphere version is not supported by VDDK 7.0.
    vSphere 6.0 was supported until Data Protection for VMware 8.1.9.
  4. Beginning with Data Protection for VMware 8.1.21.0, VMware VDDK 8.0 is used. Since vSphere 6.5 is not supported by VDDK 8.0 and later, vSphere 6.5 is not supported by Data Protection for VMware 8.1.21.0 and later.


 

Overview table for Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V

The following table provides an overview of the operating system levels are supported by the Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V. For the most current details about each component's operating system support, including hardware requirements, click the several levels.

Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V
Release 8.1
Latest fix pack 8.1.22
Operating system support on Windows x64 Data mover* Mount proxy* Recovery agent* MMC UI*
Windows
Professional Edition

Windows 10: beginning with 8.1.4
Windows 11: beginning with 8.1.13
 		 --
--		 --
--		 --
--		 10
11
Hyper-V Server or
Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server
Essentials, Standard, and Datacenter Editions

On mount proxy and MMC GUI: beginning with 8.1.4
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2019: beginning with 8.1.7
Windows Server 2022: beginning with 8.1.13
 
2012 
2012 R2 
2016
2019 
2022 
2012
2012 R2
2016
2019
2022
2012 
2012 R2 
2016
2019 
2022
2012
2012 R2
2016
2019 
2022 
Operating system support on Linux x86_64 Data mover* Mount proxy* Recovery agent* MMC UI*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Client and Server Editions

RHEL 6.7: beginning with 8.1.6
RHEL 7.4: beginning with 8.1.6
RHEL 8.0: beginning with 8.1.10
 		 --
--
--		 RHEL 6.7
RHEL 7.4
RHEL 8.0
 		 --
--
--		 --
--
--
SUSE Enterprise Linux (SLES)
Desktop and Server Editions

SLES 11 SP3: beginning with 8.1.6
SLES 12 SP3: beginning with 8.1.6
SLES 15: beginning with 8.1.8
 		 --
--
--		 SLES 11SP3
SLES 12SP3
SLES15		 --
--
--		 --
--
--

* Later maintenance and modification levels to the operating system version are also supported.


 

 

Release 8.1


 

Application Protection Requirements


 

End of Support (EOS) releases

Release 7.1 is past End of Support (EOS):

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Product Synonym

IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments;

Document Information

Modified date:
21 March 2024

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swg21505139

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