Verify that your environment meets the requirements to automate the recovery of VMware Cloud Director VMs with Commvault.
Access Nodes
Windows
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Windows Server 2025
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Windows Server 2022
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Windows Server 2019
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Windows Server 2016
Linux
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Oracle Linux 8.x or 9.x
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RHEL 8.x, or 9.x
Note
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For RHEL, OEL 9.0 and 9.1 VSA access nodes, if the libssl.so.3 and libcrypto.so.3 VDDK 8.0.1 load fails, upgrade openssl-libs to the latest version to use VDDK 8.0.1. Upgrading will protect the VMware workloads.
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To use a machine that runs RHEL 7.7 as a VSA proxy, you must install the pcre-devel-8.32-17.el7.x86_64 package.
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For a machine that runs RHEL 8.x or 9.x, to install operating system packages that are required to enable automatic installation of Mono, register the machine with Red Hat.
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Rocky Linux 8.x or 9.x
You can deploy a Linux machine to serve as a Virtual Server Agent access node. For more information, see Deploying a Linux Access Node for VMware Cloud Director.
Support for Linux access nodes for VMware Cloud Director is enabled by default for the HyperScale 1.5 Appliance. You can select appliance nodes to act as Linux access nodes.
Hard Drive
Verify that at least 100 GB free space is available for installing the Virtual Server Agent.
VMware Cloud Director Versions
VMware Cloud Director 10.6, 10.5, 10.4, 10.3
Primary and Secondary Site Resources
The primary and secondary sites for replication must have the required VMware Cloud Director environment, and must include Commvault resources to manage operations and data movement.