Linux File System Agent: System Requirements

The following are the requirements for Linux File System Agent:

Operating System

Operating System Version

Architecture

Linux

Amazon Linux AMI

Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM) - Kernel 5.10, SSD Volume Type

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Asianux

Asianux 4

x64

Debian

Debian 10.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Debian 9.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Debian 8.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Debian 7.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Debian 6.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Debian 5.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

EulerOS

EulerOS 2.0 SP3

x64

EulerOS 2.0 SP2

x64

Fedora

Fedora release 30 with glibc 2.29.x

*After you install or upgrade to Fedora 30 operating system version, you must install the following packages: libxcrypt-compat.x86_64 (64-bit) or libxcrypt-compat.i686 (32-bit) libnsl.x86_64 (64-bit) or libnsl.i686 (32-bit)

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 29 with glibc 2.28.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 28 with glibc 2.27.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 27 with glibc 2.26.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 26 with glibc 2.25.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 25 with glibc 2.24.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 24 with glibc 2.23.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 23 with glibc 2.22.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 22 with glibc 2.21.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 21 with glibc 2.20.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 20 with glibc 2.18.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 19 with glibc 2.17.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 18 with glibc 2.16.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 17 with glibc 2.15.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 16 with glibc 2.14.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 15 with glibc 2.13.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 14 with glibc 2.13.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 13 with glibc 2.12.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 12 with glibc 2.11.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 11 with glibc 2.10.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 10 with glibc 2.9.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 9 with glibc 2.8.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Fedora release 8 with glibc 2.7.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Gentoo

Gentoo with glibc 2.12.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Gentoo with glibc 2.6.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Gentoo with glibc 2.9.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

NeoKylin Linux

NeoKylin Linux 7.4

x64

NeoKylin Linux 6.5

x64

OpenSuSE

OpenSuSE 13.2 with glibc 2.19

x64

OpenSuSE 13.1 with glibc 2.18

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

OpenSuSE 12.x with glibc 2.14 or later

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

OpenSuSE 11.3 with glibc 2.11.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

OpenSuSE 11.2 with glibc 2.10.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

OpenSuSE 11.1 with glibc 2.9.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

OpenSuSE 11.0 with glibc 2.8.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Oracle Linux

Oracle Linux 7.x with glibc 2.17.x or a more recent version

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Oracle Linux 6.x with glibc 2.12.x or a more recent version

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Oracle Linux 5.x with glibc 2.5.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 8.x with glibc 2.28.x

Before you install the Commvault software, you must manually install the libxcrypt.x86_64 and libnsl.x86_64 packages on the computer.

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 7.x with glibc 2.17.x or a more recent version

  • x86

  • x64

  • PowerPC

  • Compatible processors

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 6.x with glibc 2.12.x

x86

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 6.x with glibc 2.12-1.25.x or a more recent version

x64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 5.x with glibc 2.5.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • PowerPC

  • Compatible processors

Scientific Linux

Scientific Linux SL 5.x with glibc 2.5.x

x64

Scientific Linux 7.x

x64

Scientific Linux 6.x

x64

Slackware

Slackware 14.0 with glibc 2.15.x

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Source Mage Linux

Source Mage 0.10

x86

SuSE Linux (SLES)

SuSE Linux 15 (Initial Release/SP1 and later SPs) with glibc 2.26.x and higher

  • x86

  • x64

  • PowerPC

  • Compatible processors

SuSE Linux 12 (Initial Release/SP1 and later SPs) with glibc 2.19.x or a more recent version

  • x86

  • x64

  • PowerPC

  • Compatible processors

SuSE Linux 11 (Initial Release/SP1/SP2/SP3/SP4) with glibc 2.9.x and later

Download and install the mandatory patches from the SuSE site for SLES 11 SP4 running on Power PC.

  • x86

  • x64

  • PowerPC

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 19.10

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 19.04

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 18.10

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 17.10

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 17.04

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 15.10

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 15.04

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 14.10

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 13.10

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 13.04

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 12.10

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 11.10

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 11.04

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 9.10

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 9.04

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 8.10

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Ubuntu 8.04

  • x86

  • x64

  • Compatible processors

Z-Linux

Linux on zSeries (System z9/z10)

  • s390x 64-bit, with 31-bit runtime libraries installed

  • s390 31-bit

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x

  • s390x 64-bit, with 31-bit runtime libraries installed

  • s390 31-bit

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5

  • s390x 64-bit, with 31-bit runtime libraries installed

  • s390 31-bit

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x

  • s390x 64-bit, with 31-bit runtime libraries installed

  • s390 31-bit

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x

  • s390x 64-bit, with 31-bit runtime libraries installed

  • s390 31-bit

SuSE Linux (SLES)

SuSE Linux 12 (Initial Release/SP1/SP2/SP3/SP4/SP5) Enterprise Server

  • s390x 64-bit, with 31-bit runtime libraries installed

  • s390 31-bit

SuSE Linux 11 (Initial Release/SP1/SP2/SP3/SP4) Enterprise Server

  • s390x 64-bit, with 31-bit runtime libraries installed

  • s390 31-bit

Cluster Support

You can install the software on a cluster, if clustering is supported by the operating system. For information about supported cluster types, see Support for Cluster Configuration.

Hard Drive

1 GB minimum of hard disk space for installing the software.

1024 MB of free disk space is required for the tmp directory.

To calculate the disk space requirements for the job results directory, see Job Results Directory Disk Space Calculation.

1024 MB of free disk space is required for log directory (/var/log, by default).

Processor

Any compatible processor on supported platforms.

Memory (RAM)

  • 2 GB or more

  • An additional 1.5 GB for every 500,000 folders in the backup data

Net-tools Package

On Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 7.1 computers, make sure to install the net-tools package.

PowerPC Processor Support

Commvault supports both of the 64-bit PowerPC architectures: ppc64 (or "big endian") and ppc64le (or "little endian").

Note

  • For operating systems versions that support the PowerPC architecture, refer to the supported operating systems table above.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 6.x with glibc 2.12.x on PowerPC architecture is not supported effective version 11. For more information about deprecated platforms, see End-of-Life, Deprecated and Extended Support - Platforms.

Miscellaneous

Schedule Jobs Using a Client Computer's Time Zone

The client computer has to be in one of the standard time zones recognized by the CommServe. Otherwise, the CommServe does not get updated with the client computer's time zone and the jobs scheduled using the client computer's time zone might not run.

SELinux

If you have SELinux enabled on the client computer, depending on the configured mode and policy, you might need to create a SELinux policy module. See SELinux Configuration.

Use 137766

Linux File System - Supported File Systems

B-tree File System (Btrfs)

Fraunhofer FS (FhGFS or BeeGFS)

Extended 2 File System (ext2)

Extended 3 File System (ext3)

Extended 4 File System (ext4)

Fujitsu Exabyte File System (FEFS)

General Parallel File System (GPFS)

Global File System (GFS/GFS2)

GlusterFS File System (GlusterFS)*

Lustre File System (Clustered File System)

Moose File System (MooseFS)

Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS2)

Oracle ASM Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS)

Panasas ActiveScale File System (PanFS)

Reiser File System (reiserfs)

VERITAS File System (VxFS)

VERITAS Cluster File System (VxCFS)

X9000 IBRIX File System (IBRIXFS) 6.x

'X' File System (XFS)

*Backups and restores run on the Gluster client

Supported Volume Managers

  • Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) 5.0 or higher

  • Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

What Is Backed Up

Regular files and directories, including the following, are backed up:

  • Files that have holes

  • Raw device files

  • Files that have advisory locks

  • A maximum path level of 10 symbolic links pointing to each raw device

  • Files that have names that contain non-ASCII characters, if the appropriate locales are set

  • Shares that have Macintosh file system data

  • Symbolic links that are browsed or manually added to the data contents

  • Files that have a file path or a file name that contains more than 1023 characters

Note

By default, files that have a mandatory lock are not backed up. To back up these files, see Configuring Backups for Locked Files.

DISCLAIMER

Third-party maintenance (minor) releases or service packs that are supported by the Commvault software may not be listed in our System Requirements. When possible, Commvault provides information on any known issues related to these minor releases or service packs. In some cases, these minor releases or service packs affect how the Commvault software works. Commvault software may experience changes in functionality as the result of the third-party minor release or service pack. These changes are beyond the control of Commvault. Platforms that are supported in the current version of Commvault software may not be supported in earlier versions of the software. Contact your software provider to ensure that third-party minor releases or service packs are compatible with the Commvault software. Additional considerations regarding minimum requirements and End-of-Life policies from third-party vendors also apply.

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