Hypervisors

VMware vSphere is the supported on-premises hypervisor platform, both as a protected (source) site and as a recovery (target) site. This page lists the validated vCenter Server and ESXi versions for solution version 2.0.3.

Supported versions

Virtual machine requirements

For a vSphere VM to be eligible for protection:

• The guest must be an x86-based Windows or Linux operating system listed in the Guest OS matrix.
• Windows guests can use BIOS or UEFI boot; Linux guests must use BIOS boot for cross-cloud recovery.
• Disks must be VMFS-based and attached in Dependent mode.
• Storage controllers must be SCSI (LSI Logic SAS, LSI Logic Parallel, VMware Paravirtual, BusLogic Parallel), NVMe, or IDE.
• VMware Tools must be installed in every VM that will be added to a protection plan. See Preparing an instance for replication.
• Changed Block Tracking (CBT) must be enabled. The protection plan wizard offers to enable it automatically when VMs are selected.

vSphere privileges

Replication and recovery orchestration is performed through the vCenter Server API with a dedicated role. The full privilege list is documented in Permissions.

Recovery site placement

When VMware is the recovery site, Datamotive nodes have additional placement requirements — they must reside in the same datacenter used in the recovery configuration and have access to the datastores where VMs will be recovered. See Preparing the target site.

Related docs

• Platforms

• Guest OS

• Permissions