Verify that your environment meets the requirements for protecting VMs in Alibaba Cloud.
Alibaba Cloud accounts
Create a separate hypervisor for each Alibaba Cloud account.
Alibaba Cloud zones
Deploy an access node in each zone that contains VMs that you want to protect.
Access node operating systems
Windows
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Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Editions
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Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Editions
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Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Editions
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Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Editions
Linux
Preferred: - Alibaba Cloud Linux
Supported: - Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Ubuntu
User Permissions
To apply all the required permissions for backups and restores, use the alicloud_min_permission_policy.json file on the Alibaba command line.