Introduction

This Software Compatibility List (SCL) document contains information for Veritas NetBackup 7.7 through 7.7.x. It covers NetBackup Server (which includes Enterprise Server and Server), Client, Bare Metal Restore (BMR), Clustered Master Server Compatibility and Storage Stacks, Deduplication, File System Compatibility, Media Server Encryption Option (MSEO), NetBackup OpsCenter, NetBackup Access Control (NBAC), SAN Media Server/SAN Client/FT Media Server, Virtual System Compatibility and NetBackup Self Service Support. It is divided into bookmarks on the left that can be expanded.

For information about certain NetBackup features, functionality, 3rd-party product integration, Veritas product integration, applications, databases, and OS platforms that Veritas intends to replace with newer and improved functionality, or in some cases, discontinue without replacement, please see the widget titled "NetBackup Future Platform and Feature Plans" at https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup

Reference Article TECH59978 https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH59978 for links to all other NetBackup compatibility lists.

7.7 - 7.7.x OS Software Compatibility List Updates

Update Information

Operating Systems

Most operating system vendors provide patches and updates to their products. It is a best practice of NetBackup Quality Engineering to test with the latest service pack or patch level of the operating system when testing a platform. If a known problem exists on a specific service pack or patched OS level, this information is identified in the tables below. Any required operating system patches for specific releases of NetBackup are documented in the NetBackup Release Notes. The current patch versions of releases will work with NetBackup for the operating systems listed below unless otherwise noted. Veritas supports the standard un-altered kernel/operating system levels as indicated in the table, provided the OS Vendor still provides support for that level. Should an issue arise on a revised kernel, operating system, or virtual system environment, Veritas support may request the recreation of the problem with the standard operating environment distribution.

NetBackup Vault:
This option runs on the same operating systems and versions and in the same clustering environments as NetBackup unless otherwise noted in the NetBackup Release Notes. NetBackup restrictions and limitations related to systems, clusters, and peripherals also apply to Vault.
Exception: Vault does not support standalone drives.

Data at Rest Key Management Service (KMS):
This feature is a master server-based symmetric key management service that manages symmetric cryptography keys for tape drives that conform to the T10 standard (i.e. LTO4). Beginning in NetBackup 6.5.2, KMS is supported on all OS versions where the master server and media server are supported unless otherwise noted.

Support Definitions:
Veritas Maintenance/Support only applies to Veritas Licensed Software, assuming you have a current Veritas Maintenance/Support subscription for such software and such Veritas Licensed Software is operating in configurations which Veritas designates as supported. Veritas Maintenance/Support does not cover (and we have no responsibility for) providing technical support, installation services or other services for any other software or hardware products. Also, Veritas is not obligated to provide Maintenance/Support when your Veritas Licensed Software is operating in configurations Veritas does not designate as supportable/supported. Please see the current Veritas Technical Support Policy and your Veritas license agreement for more information, terms and limitations.

Supported Configurations:
For more information about technical notes in regards to Veritas supported configurations (such as operating system/levels, firmware levels, databases, devices, device drivers, applications, etc.), please refer to the Veritas Support website https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US.html. Please note that while Veritas makes reasonable efforts to keep this information updated, we cannot assure that this information will be in all cases complete or the most current.

Third Party Products:
Where your problem may be related to product(s) from a third party vendor with whom we have a cooperative or collaborative relationship on such product(s), then Veritas may work with that vendor towards resolving your reported problem. Where Veritas does not have such a support relationship in place with the third party vendor, or where the vendor ceases to support such product(s), then our ability to support Veritas Licensed Software operating with such vendor's product(s) may be limited, affected, or prevented (and such third party product(s) may cease to be part of Veritas - supported configuration(s)). Veritas support may be limited by the hardware or software vendor due to their support lifecycle. Should a vendor announce End of Support for a product, Veritas support may be limited.

Bare Metal Restore (BMR)

Please refer to the following link for BMR supported configurations : https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000127612
Disclaimer:
In NetBackup 8.1 release, NetBackup Bare Metal Restore functionality is not supported for restoring the clients which have NetBackup version 8.1 installed.
However, you can still use Bare Metal Restore for restoring the clients which have NetBackup version 8.0 and earlier installed.
While restoring 8.0 and earlier clients, Veritas recommends that you use Shared Resource Tree (SRT) having 8.0 and earlier client version.
Note that there is a planned support for NetBackup Bare Metal Restore functionality in a future release.

Active Directory Support

Active Directory is supported via the standard Windows file system agent when specifying System State:\ or Shadow Copy Components:\. Since it is a part of the standard system components, backup and recovery of Active Directory is supported on all Windows server platforms which NetBackup supports as a client.

Active Directory Granular Restore is a special restore option enabled by a policy selection. This option is also supported on all platforms in which Active Directory is supported by NetBackup.

Where support is shown for “Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2" it is implied that Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, and Web Edition are supported.

Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2" it is implied that Standard Edition, Datacenter Edition, Essentials Edition, and Foundation Edition are supported.

Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2016" it is implied that Standard Edition, Datacenter Edition, Essentials Edition, and Foundation Edition are supported.

In IPV6-enabled NetBackup 7.7 and later environments, Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) is not supported for Active Directory.

1. NetBackup 8.1 and later does not support this operating system on this CPU architecture.

Bare Metal Restore (BMR)

General Information

Bare Metal Restore Server (BMR server) is a feature of the Master Server.

•BMR Boot Server
BMR Boot Server is supported on the same Operating Systems as the BMR client. In case of Windows, BMR Boot Server bitness is not relevant. I.E., a Windows x86 boot server can boot x86 and x64 servers and visa-versa.

•BMR Boot Server Requirements
Please Reference the Requirements for Bare Metal Restore (BMR) Boot Servers document for comprehensive information, http://www.veritas.com/docs/000041982.

Please refer to the following link for BMR supported configurations : https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000127612

Bare Metal Restore File System/Volume Manager Support

Listed in the table below are the available File Systems and Logical Volume Managers compatible with Bare Metal Restore 7.7 through 7.7.x. Support is conditional according to the published notes corresponding to the individual OS platforms.

The table below contains scenarios that have been thoroughly tested with NetBackup. Due to the number of combinations, it is not possible to test all combinations for compatibility. If a particular scenario is not listed, it may work fine, but has not been explicitly tested by Veritas.

Minimum NetBackup Level
The information in this column is the minimum level of NetBackup that must be installed on the BMR Client to support the associated OS platform.

Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2008” or "Windows Server 2008 R2" it is implied that Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, and Web Edition are supported.

Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2012” or "Windows Server 2012 R2" it is implied that Foundation Edition, Essentials Edition, Standard Edition, and Datacenter Edition are supported.

Acronyms
LDM - Logical Disk Manager
LVM - Logical Volume Manager
SFW - Storage Foundation for Windows
SRT - Shared Resource Tool
SVM - Solaris Volume Manager
VxFS - Veritas File System
VxVM - Veritas Volume Manager

Client Selections for Backup Policies

The information in the Client Selection column of the table below is the client type that should be selected when installing NetBackup as a client on the Operating System/Version and Architecture listed in this table.

Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2008" or "Windows Server 2008 R2" it is implied that Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, and Web Edition are supported.

Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2012","Windows Server 2012 R2" or "Windows Server 2016" it is implied that Standard Edition, Datacenter Edition, Essentials Edition, and Foundation Edition are supported.

1. NetBackup 8.1 and later does not support this operating system on this CPU architecture.

Clustered Master Server Compatibility

See NetBackup High Availability Administrator's Guide http://www.veritas.com/docs/000003214 for details. Cluster compatibility is only listed for NetBackup Components that are cluster aware. NetBackup clients and agents are supported in cluster environments but are not cluster aware.

For Linux distributions shown in the tables below, NetBackup is supported on all "editions" and on all vendor GA updates (n.1, n.2, etc.) or service packs (SP1, SP2, etc.) unless otherwise footnoted in this document or in the NetBackup OS Compatibility List. http://www.veritas.com/docs/000040842

For information about certain NetBackup features, functionality, 3rd-party product integration, Veritas product integration, applications, databases, and OS platforms that Veritas intends to replace with newer and improved functionality, or in some cases, discontinue without replacement, please see the widget titled "NetBackup Future Platform and Feature Plans" at https://sort.veritas.com/netbackup

1. FlashBackup is not currently supported when using Storage Foundation 6 or greater volume manager.
2. Supported through TL9
3. Supported from TL9
4. Supported through TL3
5. Supported through TL2
6. Supported through TL4 SP1
7. Supported through TL9 SP1
8. RHEL 5 Update 3 or later required.
9. RHEL 5 Update 5 or later required.
10. RHEL 5 Update 8 or later required.
11. RHEL 6 Update 5 or later required.
12. RHEL 6 Update 1 or later required.
13. RHEL 6 Update 3 or later required.
14. RHEL 6 Update 6 or later required.
15. RHEL 7 Update 3 or later is supported from NetBackup 7.7.3
16. Solaris 11 Update 3 or later required.
17. Solaris 10 Update 11 or later required.
18. Solaris 10 Update 9 or later required.
19. Minimum OS level is Solaris 11 SRU1.
20. Solaris 11.1 requires VCS 6.0.3 or later.
21. SLES 10 SP3 or later SP required.
22. SLES 11 SP4 or later SP required.
23. SLES 11 SP1 or later SP required.
24. SLES 11 SP2 or later SP required.
25. SLES11 SP4 needs patch sfha-sles11sp4_x86_64-Patch-6.2.1.100
26. VSS based snapshot at a volume-level is supported, but snapshots at a LUN level will not work due to a Microsoft issue.
27. Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC), formerly MSCS.
28. Not supported with NetBackup 7.6.1.

Clustered Master Server Storage Stacks

The table below captures the NetBackup clustering solution supported volume manager on shared disk. For example, when configuring NetBackup on a Linux OS VCS cluster, the only supported volume manager for the shared disk used by NetBackup is VxVM.

Note that the table below does not include OS versions. Please see the preceding table for specific OS version support.

NetBackup support of the FlashBackup policy with Storage Foundation 6 volume manager is scheduled for a future NetBackup release.

NetBackup support of Storage Foundation 6 features of Deduplication and Compression is scheduled for a future NetBackup release.

1. Supported on all OS versions as noted in the preceding table.
2. With VCS 6.0 (VCSW/SFWHA 6.0) VSS based snapshot at a volume-level is supported, but snapshots at a LUN level will not work due to a Microsoft issue.

Compatibility between NetBackup versions

For compatibility between major versions, the latest available release of NetBackup is compatible with media servers and clients that run a release of NetBackup that is up to one major version behind. However, this compatibility ceases to be supported in any configuration once the previous major version has reached its End of Support Life.
For information on Veritas End of Life Policy, refer to https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000116439

NetBackup does not support any scenario where a media server or client runs a software release update version that is higher than that of their Master server.
For more information, refer to the NetBackup Release Notes and the NetBackup Upgrade Guide: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000094423 .

Other general rules for major, minor, and release update compatibility:
• OpsCenter/OpsCenter Analytics must always be running the same or higher major, minor, release update or maintenance patch as the master servers in the environment.
• All components (master, media, client, console, and agent) on an individual system must be at the same version.
• Backup images created under an older version of NetBackup will always be recoverable with a newer version of NetBackup
• A new feature may not be functional until the master, media and client are updated.
• Administration Consoles cannot be at an earlier version than the NetBackup server version they connect to via the "change server" functionality in the console

Deduplication Supported Operating Systems

If you are looking for information regarding PureDisk support, and not media server deduplication, reference article http://www.veritas.com/docs/000008731

For further details on recommended hardware reference NetBackup Deduplication: Additional Usage Information: http://www.veritas.com/docs/000041111 .

Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2008" or "Windows Server 2008 R2" it is implied that Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, and Web Edition are supported.

Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2012", or "Windows Server 2012 R2" it is implied that Foundation Edition, Essentials Edition, Standard Edition, and Datacenter Edition are supported.

Media Server Deduplication (MSDP) is supported in an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment on any cloud platform that meets minimum requirements. For additional details on minimum and recommended configurations see NetBackup Media Server Deduplication (MSDP) in the Cloud https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000004584.

1. NetBackup 8.1 and later does not support this operating system on this CPU architecture.
2. ZFS file system is not supported as a backend storage location for a MSDP disk pool.
3. See the File System Compatibility table for support details regarding the Windows 2016 NTFS data deduplication feature, and the ReFS file system.
4. See the File System Compatibility table for support details regarding the Windows 2012 NTFS data deduplication feature, and the ReFS file system.

File System Compatibility

NetBackup supports backing up file data on all POSIX compliant file systems. The table below represents the platform configurations that have been tested for compatibility with ACLs and other extended attributes. Unless otherwise noted in the table below, ACLs and other extended attributes are not supported.

NetBackup has improved its integration with the Veritas File System (VxFS) product to ensure interoperability on all compatible VxFS versions. If you run a VxFS version that is older than VxFS 4.0 then you need to install new VxFS libraries on the client to back up the systems that run VxFS. You can search and download the appropriate VxFS libraries to your system from Patch Central on the Veritas Support Web site. See, https://sort.veritas.com/patch/finder.

Note :
• For Linux Operating Systems, the backup and restore of extended attributes set by the chattr command on XFS, ZFS, BTRFS etc. is not supported
• Cross platform restore of extended attributes is not supported.

NetBackup Administration Consoles

The NetBackup Java Administration Console is an interface to configure and manage NetBackup installed on the same machine. The interface can run on any NetBackup Java-capable system.

The Backup Archive and Restore (BAR) console is an interface to the NetBackup client. The Backup, Archive, and Restore utility performs backups and archives for the system on which it is installed and restores for this system and other clients.

For information on how to install the consoles mentioned above reference the NetBackup Installation Guides. And for information on usage reference the NetBackup Administrator's Guides.

The table below is a list of the platforms that support the NetBackup-Java Administration Console and the Backup Archive and Restore Interface.
Note: If a supported NetBackup client is not listed in the table below the client is supported for backup and restore, but it does not support any of the available graphical interfaces.

Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2008" or "Windows Server 2008 R2", it is implied that Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Datacenter Edition, and Web Edition are supported.

Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2012" it is implied that Standard Edition, Datacenter Edition, Essentials Edition, and Foundation Edition are supported.

Where support is shown for "Windows Server 2016" it is implied that Standard Edition, Datacenter Edition, Essentials Edition, and Foundation Edition are supported.