System Requirements - Server Backup Manager for Windows

Notice The Server Backup Manager (SBM) 5.12 release is the final feature release supporting this product running on Windows operating systems. Development efforts moving forward will focus on the SBM running on Linux operating systems. Critical updates will be provided for SBM on Windows through 2016, but there will not be any further software releases of the SBM supporting Windows after October 1, 2016. R1Soft will release product updates to provide migration support between SBM servers as well as convenience features assisting with the migration of entire SBM servers. For more information, click here.

Server Backup Manager for Windows includes the following system requirements: 

Hardware

Recommended A 64-bit Windows operating system is required. 32-bit binaries will not be provided in the future. Due to the limitations of the 32-bit address space, 32-bit Backup Managers are limited to a maximum of two simultaneous backup tasks.

Hardware	Requirements
Physical Memory	1 GB per open Disk Safe (concurrent backup/restores) with an additional 2 GB per terabyte of backups
CPU	2 cores minimum plus 1 core per concurrent backup/restore task
Free Disk Space	Minimum 10 GB (100 GB+ recommended)  Note Replication and file restore reports are stored in the installation directory. Storage space required depends on how long reporting history is retained and how frequently policies and file restores are run.
Primary Storage Types	Directly Attached Storage including: IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS, ISCSI, Fibre Channel, Dynamic Disks (Software RAID), Hardware RAID, Solid State Drives (SSD)
Virtualization	MS Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer 5, Xen Source Hypervisor, VMWare ESXi Note For best performance, install Enterprise Backup Manager repository on dedicated physical hardware.
Disk Safe Locations	Directly Attached Storage, Network Attached Storage including: IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS, ISCSI, Fibre Channel, Dynamic Disks (Software RAID), Hardware RAID, Solid State Drives (SSD), Windows Network Shares, CIFS Notes On NTFS file systems where Disk Safes are stored, a 32 KB cluster size is recommended.
Disk Safe Storage	Minimum 1x Primary Storage* (Recommended 2-4x Primary Storage of Servers) *with compression enabled

Windows Operating System

Recommended Windows Server 2008 R2 is recommended for best performance.

A 64-bit Windows operating system is required. 32-bit binaries will not be provided in the future.  Due to the limitations of the 32-bit address space, 32-bit Backup Managers are limited to a maximum of two simultaneous backup tasks.
Supported x64 versions of Windows operating systems include: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2008.

Virtualization

Technology	Physical Server Install	Guest (Virtual Machine) Install
MS Hyper-V	Yes Protects all VHDs (Virtual Machines) with one install using the MS Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Hyper-V Writer. Note R1Soft recommends running the latest service packs and Hyper-V hot fixes to get critical Hyper-V VSS patches from MS.	Yes Can optionally be installed inside of guest VMs. This is only required for Linux guests.
Citrix XenServer 5	No	Install into guest VMs (domU)
Xen Source Hypervisor	No	Install into guest VMs (domU)
VMWare ESXi	No	Install into guest VMs
VMWare Server	No	Install into guest VMs
VMWare Workstation	No	Install into guest VMs
Parallels Virtuozzo	Yes Protects all Virtual Machines with one install using the MS Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Virtuozzo Writer Note The Virtuozzo VSS Writer has a known issue: it can fail when VMs are disabled.	Yes Can optionally be installed inside of guest VMs
Parallels Cloud Server	No	Installs into Parallels VMs

Web Browsers

These web browsers can be used to access the web-based interface of the application.

Backup Agent

See:

• System Requirements - Backup Agent for Windows
• System Requirements - Backup Agent for Linux