NetBackup™ Enterprise Server 11.x Software Compatibility List

NetBackup™ Enterprise Server 11.x Software Compatibility List

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Introduction

This Software Compatibility List (SCL) document contains information for NetBackup 11.x It covers NetBackup Server (which includes Enterprise Server and Server), Client, Bare Metal Restore (BMR), Clustered Primary Server Compatibility and Storage Stacks, Deduplication, File System Compatibility, NetBackup Access Control (NBAC), SAN Media Server/SAN Client/FT Media Server, Virtual System Compatibility and NetBackup Self Service Support, NetBackup Snapshot Manager.The operating systems and workloads protected by NetBackup using NetBackup Client are supported on physical as well as virtual environments, including Cloud infrastructures.

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 primary server-based symmetric key management service that manages symmetric cryptography keys for tape drives that conform to the T10 standard. KMS is supported on all OS versions where the primary 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 Veritas Support 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.

NetBackup plug-ins and agents
Veritas supports modern, next-generation workloads and hyper-converged infrastructure environments in NetBackup 11.0
For further information, please refer to How to use NetBackup plug-ins and agents

Virtual Environment
The operating systems and workloads protected by NetBackup using NetBackup Client are supported on physical as well as virtual environments, including Cloud infrastructures.
Supported combinations of NetBackup protection for Virtual environments are listed here: Virtual Systems

Bare Metal Restore (BMR)
Bare Metal Restore Server (BMR server) is a feature of the Primary 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 vice-versa.
• BMR Boot Server Requirements
Please Reference the Requirements for Bare Metal Restore (BMR) Boot Servers document for comprehensive information, Requirements for Bare Metal Restore (BMR) Boot Servers
Please refer to the following link for BMR supported configurations: NetBackup BMR support with different operating system and its patch releases

Disclaimer:
• BMR restores uses NBCA certificates hence primary and media (servers which have backup images for BMR client) should have NBCA enabled for BMR restores to work.
For more information on supported workflows refer technote NetBackup BMR support with respect to external certificate authority (CA)

IPV6 and Dual Stack environments are supported with few limitations refer technote for additional information IPv6 support limitations in NetBackup

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 SORT for NetBackup Users

Reference Article NetBackup compatibility lists for links to all other NetBackup compatibility lists.

Release Information

Browser Requirements for the NetBackup Web User Interface

The NetBackup Web UI is compatible with the latest vendor-supported versions of web browsers.
For the best experience with the NetBackup Web UI, Veritas recommends that you use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge without any plug-ins.

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Operating System

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.

Note:
NetBackup is supported on all vendor GA updates (n-1, n-2, etc.) or service packs (SP1, SP2, etc.) unless stated otherwise in the tables below.

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Compatibility between NetBackup versions

NetBackup Domain can contain Primary Server, Media Server and NetBackup Clients of different versions.
NetBackup Primary Server should be of same version or higher than Media Server.
Media Server should be of same version or higher than the clients connecting to specific Media Server.

• To check supported version of NetBackup please refer: Product Life Cycle Information

• For the previous NetBackup compatibility list please refer: NetBackup Compatibility List for all Versions

• For more information, refer to the NetBackup Release Notes and the NetBackup Upgrade Guide: NetBackup guides for Windows and UNIX

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Ransomware Protection

Malware Scanning

Supported policy types: MS-Windows and Standard, VMware, Cloud-Object-Store, Nutanix-AHV, NAS-Data-Protection, Universal Share.
Supported Cloud VMs (Azure, AWS, GCP)
Supported with backup images that have been deduplicated with MSDP local storage and cloud object storage and is not supported with 3rd party deduplication devices (3rd party OST devices).
NetBackup's Malware scanning in public-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) requires a Cloud Recovery Server (CRS).
Supported with Public-cloud-based storage. Private-cloud/On-prem S3 storage are supported.

1. For Trend Micro Deep security agent based scan host, scan user needs to be root.

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Clustered Primary Server

See NetBackup High Availability Administrator's Guide NetBackup Documentation Landing Page 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.

All MR’s are supported if the specific Major/GA release is already supported.

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.

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 SORT for NetBackup Users.

Note:
• NetBackup resource group fails to come online please, Refer: NetBackup resource group fails
• To configure NBAC on Windows servers HA(VCS), Refer: NBAC Configuration on Windows servers HA(VCS)

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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.

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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.

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 2019" or "Windows Server 2022" it is implied that Standard Edition and Datacenter Edition are supported.

Administrative consoles for supported versions of NetBackup are included in the NetBackup installation packages.console versions are installed for all versions of NetBackup that are not beyond their End of Support Life (EOSL).For information on supported versions of NetBackup see SORT Enterprise Product End of Support Life (EOSL) Information

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NetBackup Snapshot Manager

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Virtual Systems

Hypervisor supported virtual environments can be protected by either using NetBackup client (installed in-guest) or using agent-less methods (as provided by hypervisor vendors using SDK or APIs)
NetBackup can protect all virtual machines that are supported by the respective hypervisors using the agent-less methods, for basic VM-level or image-level backup and restore.
Advanced NetBackup features using agent-less method protection, such as granular or file level restores, instant access and malware scanning, etc. will be supported on NetBackup supported Operating System and filesystems as listed in respective hypervisor sections.

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XBSA Extensible Client

NetBackup XBSA is an Open Group Technical Standard that defines a Backup Services API (XBSA). The XBSA specification consists of source procedure calls, type definitions, data structures, and return codes. Client applications use these to be able to use a backup service, NetBackup, and to store and manage data.

The NetBackup XBSA is an API to NetBackup developed to the XBSA specifications. The NetBackup XBSA interface has extended the XBSA specifications to make it easier to use and enhance performance when used with NetBackup.

DataStore policy: The DataStore policy is an existing NetBackup policy that you can also use with applications communicating with the NetBackup Backup Services API interface (XBSA). The policy lets an application create, query, retrieve, and delete data objects using NetBackup for data storage.

Partner / 3rd Party produced XBSA Agents Note: Creation, maintenance, and support for a specific agent is provided by the producing company. All companies producing XBSA agents are members of the Veritas Technology Ecosystem (VTE) program, and any XBSA Agent listed on the NetBackup Compatibility List must meet certain technical requirements prior to achieving certification. Each producing company is solely responsible and liable for the operation, testing, distribution, and maintenance of the certified XBSA agent.

NetBackup Support is available to customers who have a valid support and maintenance entitlement and may include collaborative handoff to VTE technology partners when dealing with support issues that pertain to XBSA agents. Also, review the NetBackup Compatibility List for currently supported versions of NetBackup and its components.

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NetBackup IT Analytics

The below section contains NetBackup IT Analytics Data Collector supported OS versions

Data Collector Compatibility