Virtual Server Agent Support for oVirt on KVM

The Virtual Server Agent (VSA) provides unified protection and recovery for virtual machines that run in oVirt on KVM. You can create a virtualization client, perform backups, restore full virtual machines, and monitor virtual machine protection operations.

To use the VSA with oVirt on KVM, configure a virtualization client using the Red Hat option. You can change the name of the instance after creating the client.

For other operations, follow the documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

Key Features

The Virtual Server Agent supports the following features:

  • Backups

  • Recovery of full VMs, in place and out of place

  • VM filters

  • Commit backup jobs

Version Information

Component

Support

Hypervisor

oVirt Virtualization

oVirt manager

3.6.x, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2.x, 4.3.x, 4.4.x, and 4.5.x

Important

If you use oVirt manager 4.5.x, you must ensure that Keycloak is not installed. Keycloak will prevent VMs from being created with oVirt manager 4.5.x.

KVM versions managed through oVirt manager

  • Standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x and 8.x

  • CentOS 7.x and 8.x

  • Fedora

    Other KVM versions that are associated with a customer request can be supported through field certification.

Guest OS support

Virtual machines being backed up can have any of the guest operating systems that are supported by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) virtualization platform.

Proxy operating system support (VSA)

Linux

For Linux proxies, disable automatic activation of volumes to avoid issues with HotAdd operations during backup and recovery. For more information, see Disabling Automatic Activation of Volumes for a Linux Proxy.

  • CentOS version 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, or 7.9

  • Oracle Linux version 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, or 8.5

  • RHEL versions 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, or 8.7

    Note

    For a machine that runs RHEL 8.x, to install operating system packages that are required to enable automatic installation of Mono, register the machine with Red Hat.

Windows

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2022 x64 Editions (Standard, DataCenter, and Core)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (Standard, Datacenter) (64-bit only) x64 Editions (Standard, DataCenter, and Core)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016 x64 Editions (Standard, DataCenter, and Core)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 Editions (Standard, DataCenter, and Core)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 x64 Editions (Standard, DataCenter, and Core)

Storage

  • Network File System (NFS)

  • iSCSI

  • Fibre Channel

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