For VMware support, install the Virtual Server software package on one or more physical computers or virtual machines. Any virtual machine that has the Virtual Server package installed can function as an access node (VSA proxy) to perform operations.
The access node machine must be one of the following types of machines:
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Microsoft Windows Server 2022 x64 Editions (Standard, DataCenter, and Core)
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Microsoft Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (Standard, Datacenter) (64-bit only) x64 Editions (Standard, DataCenter, and Core)
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Microsoft Windows Server 2016 x64 Editions (Standard, DataCenter, and Core)
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Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 Editions (Standard, DataCenter, and Core)
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Microsoft Windows Server 2012 x64 Editions (Standard, DataCenter, and Core)
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For Linux access node support, use one of the following options:
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Deploy a Linux access node for VMware. For more information, see Linux Access Node Support for VMware.
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Install the Virtual Server Agent on a Linux machine that runs any of the following operating systems:
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Oracle Linux 8.x or 9.x
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RHEL 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.x, or 9.x
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For RHEL, OEL 9.0 and 9.1 VSA access nodes, if the libssl.so.3 and libcrypto.so.3 VDDK 8.0.1 load fails, upgrade openssl-libs to the latest version to use VDDK 8.0.1. Upgrading will protect the VMware workloads.
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To use a machine that runs RHEL 7.7 as a VSA proxy, you must install the pcre-devel-8.32-17.el7.x86_64 package.
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For a machine that runs RHEL 8.x or 9.x, to install operating system packages that are required to enable automatic installation of Mono, register the machine with Red Hat.
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Rocky Linux 8.x or 9.x
For more information, see Deploying a Linux Machine as an Access Node.
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Support for Linux access nodes for VMware is enabled by default for the HyperScale 1.5 Appliance. You can select appliance nodes to act as Linux access nodes.
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Hard Drive
Verify that at least 100 GB free space is available for installing the Virtual Server Agent.
VMware vCenter Server
The following versions are supported for vSphere, vCenter, vCenter Server Appliance, and ESX/ESXi:
7.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 8.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2
For any ESXi servers, the VADP is not available in the free version of ESXi. The Essentials licensing level or higher is required.
Guest Virtual Machine Requirements
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Virtual Machine Host |
The following versions are supported for vSphere, vCenter, vCenter Server Appliance, and ESX/ESXi: 4.1 or later, 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.6, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.5, 6.7, 6.7.1, 6.7.2, 6.7.3, 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 8.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2 For any ESXi servers, the VADP is not available in the free version of ESXi. The Essentials licensing level or higher is required. |
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Virtual Machine Hardware Version |
4.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0, 13.0, 14.0, 15.0, 17.0, 18.0, 19.0, 20.0, 21.0 |
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Virtual Machine Operating Systems |
All Guest Operating Systems supported by VADP |
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VMware Tools on Virtual Machines |
Install the latest version of VMware tools supported by the host on each virtual machine. At a minimum, the version of VMware tools on virtual machines must also be supported on the host; unsupported versions must be upgraded. |
VMware Transport Considerations
Licensing: In vSphere 5.0, the SCSI HotAdd feature is enabled only for vSphere editions Enterprise and higher, which have HotAdd licensing enabled. No separate HotAdd license is available for purchase as an add-on. In vSphere 4.1, HotAdd was also enabled in the Advanced edition. Customers with vSphere Essentials or Standard editions are not able to perform proxy-based backup, which relies on SCSI HotAdd. Those customers must use alternate transport modes.
SCSI Controllers: HotAdd relies on the SCSI protocol. With VDDK 6.5 or later, VMware recommends the paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) controller. (For more information, see Virtual Disk Development Kit Release Notes.) For older VDDK versions, use the LSI SCSI controller. HotAdd does not support IDE disks.