NDMP Agent: System Requirements

The following requirements are for the NDMP Agent.

File Server Operating System

The following table lists the supported File Server versions for each vendor:

Vendor	Supported File Server
Dell Compellent FS	5.0 to 7.0
Dell EMC Isilon/PowerScale	7.0 through 9.1 The Dell EMC Isilon/PowerScale Backup Accelerator is supported for NDMP backups.
Dell EMC PowerStore	1.0
Dell EMC Unity	4.1 to 4.5, 5.0.3
Dell EMC VNX / Celerra	DART 5.5, 5.6, 6.0
Dell EMC VNX and Dell EMC VNX2	7.0, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
Dell EMC VNXe	2.0
Hitachi NAS (BlueArc)	Up to 13.5
Huawei OceanStor V3 Converged Storage	1.0
Huawei OceanStor V5 Converged Storage	1.0
Huawei OceanStor 9000 Storage	1.0
IBM N-Series	7-Mode: 7.0 to 8.2, including subversions Clustered Data ONTAP: 7.0 to 9.9.1, including subversions Visible as a NetApp client.
Dell EMC Isilon/PowerScale	7.0 through 9.0 The Dell EMC Isilon/PowerScale Backup Accelerator is supported for NDMP backups.
NetApp	Products 7-Mode: ONTAP / Data ONTAP C-Mode: ONTAP / Data ONTAP, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, ONTAP Select ONTAP versions 7-Mode: 7.0 to 8.2, including subversions Clustered Data ONTAP: 7.0 to 9.9.1, including subversions
NexentaStor	Version 5.0
Nexsan	UNITY 1.1
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance	ak-2009.09.01.* 2010.02.09.* 2010.08.17.* 2011.04.24 2013.06.05.* The dump-pathnode setting must be set to yes*. dump-pathnode is required so that restores from incremental backups have the necessary information to complete. Consult Oracle documentation for instructions about enabling this setting.
Stratus	3.0

Hard Disk

No minimum disk space requirement for installing the software. All required components are installed automatically with the MediaAgent software. There is no separate software to install for NAS Clients. See System Requirements - MediaAgent for information on install information specific to the MediaAgent.

2% of the backup size in free disk space is required for the job results directory. For example, if the backup is 40 GB, then you must have 0.8 GB of free space for the job results directory.

256 MB of free disk space is required for log directory.

MediaAgent Operating System

Only MediaAgents with the following operating systems can be used when performing data protection operations with NDMP agent data:

AIX
HP-UX
Linux (except Itanium varieties)
Solaris
Windows

See System Requirements - MediaAgent for information on specific versions supported with these operating systems.

Miscellaneous

File Server

If media changers and/or tape drives are attached to the file server, all hardware (including the SAN networking hardware) must be of a type supported by the file server.

Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 is Automatically Installed

Starting in Service Pack 18, Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 (vcredist2017.exe) is automatically installed. If a computer does not have the latest Windows updates, the installation of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 will fail in installing Universal C Runtime.

The following Windows updates must be installed to prevent the installation failure:

KB2919355

KB2939087

KB2975061

KB2999226

Updates are not required on latest Windows operating system versions, such as Microsoft Windows 10 and Microsoft Windows Server 2016, as these versions come with the Universal C Runtime already installed.

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