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title: "Veeam Agent - Supported Operating Systems"
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# Veeam Agent - Supported Operating Systems

Although it may be technically possible to get the Veeam agent running on operating systems that are not listed below, we can only officially support the following Operating Systems:

## Windows

[System Requirements - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Guide](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentforwindows/userguide/system_requirements.html?ver=60)

Both 64-bit and 32-bit (where applicable) versions of the following operating systems are supported:

- Microsoft Windows Server 2025
- Microsoft Windows Server 2022
- Microsoft Windows Server 2019
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016
- Microsoft Windows Server General Availability Channel (from version 1803 to version 20H2)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP12
- Microsoft Windows 11 (versions 21H2, 22H2)
- Microsoft Windows 10 (from version 1909 to version 22H2)3
- Microsoft Windows 10 Long-Term Servicing Channel (versions 2015, 2016, 2019)
- Microsoft Windows 8.1
- Microsoft Windows 7 SP1

#### File System

Microsoft Windows FAT32/exFAT, NTFS, ReFS file systems are supported.

## Linux

[System Requirements - Veeam Agent for Linux User Guide](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentforlinux/userguide/system_requirements.html?ver=60#os_limits)

Linux kernels version 2.6.32 to version 6.14 are supported. For the most up-to-date information on the Veeam Agent compatibility with Linux kernel versions of the supported distributions, see [this Veeam KB article](https://www.veeam.com/kb2804).

CloudLinux and CageFS

Please note that CloudLinux Kernels and CageFS filesystems are both **not officially supported** by Veeam.

Veeam Agent supports the 64-bit versions of the following distributions:

- Debian 10.13 – 13.5
- Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 22.10, 23.04, 23.10, 24.04, 24.10 and 25.04
- RHEL 6.4 – 9.8, 10.0 and 10.2
- CentOS 7
- Oracle Linux 6.4 – 9.8, 10.0 and 10.2 (RHCK)
- Oracle Linux 6 (starting from UEK R2) – Oracle Linux 8 (up to UEK R6)
- Oracle Linux 8 (UEK R7) — for information on installation, see [this Veeam KB article](https://www.veeam.com/kb4394).
- Oracle Linux 9 (UEK R8) — for information on installing Veeam Agent on Oracle Linux 9 with UEK R8, see [this Veeam KB article](https://www.veeam.com/kb4732).
- Oracle Linux 10 (UEK R8)
- SLES 12 SP4 and SP5, 15 SP1 – 15 SP7 and 16.0
- SLES for SAP 12 SP4 and SP5, 15 SP1 – 15 SP7 and 16.0
- Fedora 36, 37, 38 and 39
- openSUSE Leap 15.3 – 15.6 and 16.0
- openSUSE Tumbleweed has an experimental support status. For details about experimental support, see [this Veeam KB article](https://www.veeam.com/kb2976).
- Rocky Linux 8.10, 9.3 – 9.8, 10.0 and 10.2
- AlmaLinux 8.10, 9.3 – 9.8, 10.0 and 10.2
- Veeam Agent supports 32-bit versions for RHEL 6 and Oracle Linux 6 distributions only.

File System

Veeam Agent for Linux supports consistent snapshot-based data backup for the following file systems:

- BTRFS (for OSes that run Linux kernel 3.16 or later)
- Ext 2/3/4
- F2FS
- FAT16
- FAT32
- HFS
- HFS+
- JFS
- NTFS
- ReiserFS
- XFS

The supported file system (except for Btrfs) can reside on a simple volume or LVM2 volume; volumes protected with encryption software such as dm-crypt are supported. Btrfs is supported only if it resides directly on a physical device with no additional abstraction layers (such as LVM, software RAID, dm-crypt and so on) below or above it.

Data that resides on other file systems and volumes (including NFS and SMB shares) can be backed up using the snapshot-less mode. For details, see Snapshot-Less File-Level Backup.