Altaro - Altaro VM Backup for Mixed Environments (Hyper-V and VMware)

VM Backup 9

The VM Backup Management Console can be utilized to add and manage multiple hosts in one console. However these hosts must be in the same LAN and at the same physical site (same building). Setups with multiple physical sites must have an instance of VM Backup at each site.

Supported Hypervisors (Hosts)

Microsoft Hyper-V

• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (Only with .NET Framework 4.8 or higher)
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 (core installation) (Only with .NET Framework 4.8 or higher)
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 (core installation)
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (core installation)
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2016 (desktop experience)
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2016 (core installation)
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2019 (core installation)
• Windows Server 2022
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2022 (core installation)
• Azure Stack HCI

VMware

• vSphere: 5.5 / 6.0 / 6.5 / 6.7 / 7.0 / 8.0
• vCenter: 5.5 / 6.0 / 6.5 / 6.7 / 7.0 / 8.0
• ESXi: 5.5 / 6.0 / 6.5 / 6.7 / 7.0 / 8.0

Note that the Free version of VMware ESXi is not supported as it lacks components required by VM Backup.

When making use of the NBD Transport mode, virtual disks cannot be larger than 1TB each.

Pass-through or RDM (Raw Device Mappings) are not backed up.

Supported Operating Systems

The VM Backup products can be installed on the following OS's:

VM Backup

• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (Only with .NET Framework 4.8 or higher)
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 (core installation) (Only with .NET Framework 4.8 or higher)
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 (core installation)
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (core installation)
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2016 (desktop experience)
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2016
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2019
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2019 (core installation)
• Windows Server 2022
• Azure Stack HCI
  
  Note that hosts must be in the same LAN and at the same physical site (same building). Setups with multiple physical sites must have an instance of VM Backup at each site.

Management Tools (UI)

• Windows 2008 R2 SP1 (Only with .NET Framework 4.8 or higher)
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows Server 2016 (desktop experience)
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022
• Azure Stack HCI
• Windows 7 (64-Bit)
• Windows 8 (64-Bit)
• Windows 10 (64-Bit)
• Windows 11 (64-Bit)

Offsite Backup Server

• Windows 2008 R2 SP1 (Only with .NET Framework 4.8 or higher)
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 (core installation) (Only with .NET Framework 4.8 or higher)
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 (core installation)
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (core installation)
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2016 (desktop experience)
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2016
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Hyper-V Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022
• Azure Stack HCI

Replication Support

[Hyper-V] A Windows Server OS is required for replication. The Offsite Backup Server needs to be installed on a Windows Server OS that's matching the source host OS, where the production VMs are running.