Component requirements

System requirements

Operating System

CentOS

  • CentOS Linux Stream 8

  • CentOS Linux Stream 9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5

Debian/Ubuntu

  • Ubuntu 22.04

  • Debian 12.5

  • Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux requires an active subscription.

  • Minimal installation is required.

Supported browsers

Administrative UI supports the following browsers. We recommend that you use the most up-to-date browser that's compatible with your operating system.

  • Chrome (latest version)

MariaDB

Storware Backup & Recovery server requires a MariaDB database server.

  • Minimum supported MariaDB version: 10.6

  • Latest supported MariaDB version: 10.11

Hardware Requirements

Minimum requirements for all-in-one installation (Storware Backup & Recovery server and node on the same host):

  • 64-bit 8 cores processor

  • 10 GB RAM

  • 20GB free disk space for the operating system and Storware Backup and Recovery installation

  • Free disk space for data staging

    • You can estimate the free space requirement using the following equation: (Size of the biggest virtual machine) * (number of parallel backup threads)

Minimum requirements for Storware Backup & Recovery server (standalone installation):

  • 64-bit 4 cores processor

  • 4 GB RAM

  • 20GB free disk space for the operating system and Storware Backup and Recovery installation

Minimum requirements for Storware Backup & Recovery node (standalone installation):

  • 64-bit 4 cores processor

  • 6 GB RAM

  • 20GB free disk space for the operating system and Storware Backup and Recovery installation

  • Free disk space for data staging

    • You can estimate the free space requirement using the following equation: (Size of the biggest virtual machine) * (number of parallel backup threads)

General network requirements

Communication between node and server

Source
Destination
Ports
Description

Node

Server

443/tcp or 8181/tcp

Node <-> Server communication over HTTPS (port 443 or 8181)

Server

Node

111/tcp, 111/UDP, 2049/tcp, 2049/UDP, ports specified in /etc/sysconfig/nfs - variables MOUNTD_PORT (TCP and UDP), STATD_PORT (TCP and UDP), LOCKD_TCPPORT (TCP), LOCKD_UDPPORT (UDP)

NFS access to browse mountable backups and logs from administrative portal (using IP that is detected as the source IP - shown in the Node list in the portal)

Network consideration

  • Depending on where the node is located you need to verify if data will not pass via low-bandwidth links.

  • Access to the internet network from the node may be required in the following scenarios:

    • Installation, when using the external repositories

    • Backup and restore of Amazon EC2, Google Cloud Platform, Azure Cloud and M365

  • Storware Backup & Recovery Node requires connectivity with backup destinations

  • Storware Backup & Recovery Node needs connectivity with the Hypervisor or Hypervisor Manager.

  • If a netcat transfer is used for Red Hat Virtuallization/oVirt/Oracle Linux VM/Proxmox VE/KVM stand-alone environments - 16000-16999 ports must be reachable from the hypervisors to the node which is responsible for those hypervisors.

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