# OpenStack: System Requirements

## Deployment for OpenStack

The Virtual Server Agent can be installed on one or more machines, so that those machines can serve as VSA proxies. A VSA proxy manages backup and restore operations for guest instances in your environment, eliminating the need to install agents on guest instances.

The Virtual Server Agent is installed on a Linux or Windows instance in the OpenStack region that contains the instances or images to be protected.

One or more VSA proxies can be deployed for each region in a OpenStack deployment. All VSA proxies associated with an OpenStack region must be added to the OpenStack virtualization client.

## System Requirements

Commvault supports protection of the following distributions and releases:

- Red Hat OpenStack Platform with the following actively supported versions:

  - Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift 18.0

  - Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17

  - Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17 (Wallaby)

  - Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2, 16.1 (Train)

  - Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 (Stein)

- Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure versions:

  - 6.3.0

  - 7.x

- Canonical Openstack versions:

  - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish

- Platform9 Managed

  - PCD 2025.4.X

- Coredge OpenStack (Bobcat)

- Wind River OpenStack

  - 24.09 (upstream version: Caracal)

  - 25.09 (upstream version: Caracal)

  - 26.03 (upstream version: Epoxy)

- Openstack versions:

  - Yoga

  - Ussuri

  - Bobcat

  - Caracal

  - Dalmation

  - Epoxy

- Mirantis Cloud Platform (MCP) with the following active releases:

  - MCP with Ocata

  - MCP with Mitaka

- Huawei OpenStack Platform with the following versions:

  - FusionCloud V100R002C00SPC600 (FusionCloud 2.06)

  - FusionCloud 6.3.1, FusionCloud 6.5.0 (Huawei Cloud Stack 6.5.0)

  - FusionCloud 6.5.1 (Huawei Cloud Stack 6.5.1)

  - Huawei Cloud Stack 8.1.x, 8.2.x, 8.3.x

    Note

    For the Huawei Cloud Stack, an OpenStack user must have the necessary permissions to successfully perform data protection tasks.

    - For more information about data protection see Multi-Tenant Deployments.

    - For information about Openstack permissions, refer to Assigning Minimum Openstack Non-Admin User Permissions for Commvault.

    The following conditions apply:

    - The account used for backup and restore must be a Tenant VDC Administrator; an HCS Operation Administrator account cannot be used for backup recovery.

    - The Tenant VDC Administrator must have full administrative rights within the tenant.

    - The VMs to be backed up and the VSA Proxy must reside within the same tenant.

    - For Huawei OpenStack Platforms with any version of FusionCloud, you must configure the bEnableFusionCloud and sCinderV1EndpointUrl additional settings to execute restores. For more information, see Restores for OpenStack.

When setting up a virtualization client, use the public endpoint of the Keystone URL if multiple endpoints are available.

Note

Ensure that the port number 443 is included in the Keystone URL. For example:

    https://$[xxxapigateway-proxy].$[domainname]:443

If you are creating Cinder volumes on a storage array, ensure you acquire the necessary licenses, such as Storage Snapshot and LUN Copy.

Commvault software no longer supports inactive OpenStack releases. To protect these versions, you will need to use a previous release of Commvault software.

For details on which versions of the Red Hat OpenStack Container Platform are active or inactive, see Red Hat OpenStack Platform Life Cycle.

- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 (Rocky)

- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens)

- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike)

- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata)

- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton)

- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka)

- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty)

- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo)

- Mirantis MCP with Newton

- Mirantis MCP with Liberty

- Mirantis MCP with Kilo

- HPE Helion OpenStack 4.0.1 with the following version: Mitaka

- Huawei Cloud Stack 6.3.1 (FusionCloud 6.3.1)

- Huawei FusionCloud V100R002C00SPC600 (FusionCloud 2.06)

- H3C Cloud OS 4.0 (Mitake)

- H3C Cloud OS 3.0 (Pike)

EasyStack Cloud Service (ECS) OpenStack Platform 5.0.1.2-2 (Newton)

## Virtual Server Agent (Proxy) Requirements

Install the Virtual Server Agent on a Windows or Linux instance in the OpenStack environment.

Only instances that have the VSA installed can act as VSA proxies to perform backups and restores.

At least one proxy is needed for each region. You can deploy additional VSA proxies as needed for load balancing.

The following operating systems are supported for VSA proxies:

- Microsoft Windows Server 2025 x64 Editions (Standard, DataCenter, and Core)

- 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)

- RHEL 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8.x, 9.x, 10.0

- Rocky Linux 8.x or 9.x
- Oracle Linux 8.x or 9.x
- Ubuntu 22 or 24

Note

Linux proxies must have the psmisc and lvm2 packages installed.

For RHEL 8 instances, to install operating system packages that must enable automatic installation of Mono, register the instances with Red Hat.

The Virtual Server Agent should be installed on instances that meet the following requirements:

- Minimum of 100 GB disk space recommended

- Minimum of 4 GB RAM required beyond the requirements of the operating system and running applications

For Windows proxies, VirtIO version 62.73.104.11800 is supported as a driver for OpenStack backup and restore operations.

For Linux proxies, disable lvmetad.

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