Software requirements

Supported operating systems

Protection with a recovery server has been tested for the following operating systems:

  • CentOS 6.6, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
  • Debian 9
  • Ubuntu  16.04, 18.04
  • Windows Server 2008/2008 R2
  • Windows Server 2012/2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2016 – all installation options, except for Nano Server
  • Windows Server 2019 – all installation options, except for Nano Server

Windows desktop operating systems are not supported due to Microsoft product terms.

The software may work with other Windows operating systems and Linux distributions, but this is not guaranteed.

Supported virtualization platforms

Protection of virtual machines with a recovery server has been tested for the following virtualization platforms:

  • VMware ESXi 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V
  • Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 with Hyper-V
  • Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V – all installation options, except for Nano Server
  • Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V – all installation options, except for Nano Server
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012/2012 R2
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016
  • Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVM)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.6
  • Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.0
  • Citrix XenServer: 6.5, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2

The VPN appliance has been tested for the following virtualization platforms:

  • VMware ESXi 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V
  • Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 with Hyper-V
  • Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V – all installation options, except for Nano Server
  • Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V – all installation options, except for Nano Server
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012/2012 R2
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016

The software may work with other virtualization platforms and versions, but this is not guaranteed.

Limitations

The following platforms and configurations are not supported in Cyber Disaster Recovery Cloud:

  1. Unsupported platforms:

    • Agents for Virtuozzo
    • macOS

  2. Unsupported configurations:

    Microsoft Windows:

    • Dynamic disks are not supported
    • Windows desktop operating systems are not supported (due to Microsoft product terms)
    • Active Directory service with FRS replication is not supported
    • Removable media without either GPT or MBR formatting (so-called "superfloppy") are not supported

    Linux:

    • Linux machines that have logical volumes (LVM) or volumes formatted with the XFS file system
    • File system without a partition table

  3. Unsupported backup types:

    • Continous data protection (CDP) recovery points are incompatible.

      If you create a recovery server from a backup having a CDP recovery point, then during the failback or creating backup of a recovery server, you will loose the data contained in the CDP recovery point.

    • Forensic backups cannot be used for creating recovery servers.

A recovery server has one network interface. If the original machine has several network interfaces, only one is emulated.

Cloud servers are not encrypted.