SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

Review the following table and notes to ensure that you are using the supported version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server:

Table 22a. Available features for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2

Catalogic DPX Master Server

Device or SAN Device Server

File-level Backup

File-level backup supports most operating systems supported file systems. Extended file system attributes are supported for EXT3/4, ReiserFS, and XFS. Extended file system attributes are supported for Ext4 for V11 SP2 and later.

Block-level Backup

LVM2 is required. Only the default uniprocessor or SMP kernel packages provided by the Linux vendor for the distribution are supported.

Open File Management

Open file management is supported for block-level backup only.

Image Backup for Seeding

BMR

NDMP Proxy

Cluster Support

Supported File Systems for Block Backup

Ext4

Extended file system attributes are supported.

Ext3

Extended file system attributes are supported.

ReiserFS

Extended file system attributes are supported. Block level support for Linux hosts using Linux Native Multipath.

XFS

64-bit INODES are not supported for the XFS filesystem.

Table 22b. Available features for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1

Catalogic DPX Master Server

Device or SAN Device Server

File-level Backup

File-level backup supports most operating systems supported file systems. Extended file system attributes are supported for EXT3/4, ReiserFS, and XFS. Extended file system attributes are supported for Ext4 for V11 SP2 and later.

Block-level Backup

LVM2 is required. Only the default uniprocessor or SMP kernel packages provided by the Linux vendor for the distribution are supported.

Open File Management

Open file management is supported for block-level backup only.

Image Backup for Seeding

BMR

NDMP Proxy

Cluster Support

Supported File Systems for Block Backup

Ext4

Extended file system attributes are supported.

Ext3

Extended file system attributes are supported.

ReiserFS

Extended file system attributes are supported. Block level support for Linux hosts using Linux Native Multipath.

XFS

64-bit INODES are not supported for the XFS filesystem.

Table 22c. Available features for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP

Catalogic DPX Master Server

Device or SAN Device Server

File-level Backup

File-level backup supports most operating systems supported file systems. Extended file system attributes are supported for EXT3/4, ReiserFS, and XFS. Extended file system attributes are supported for Ext4 for V11 SP2 and later.

Block-level Backup

LVM2 is required. Only the default uniprocessor or SMP kernel packages provided by the Linux vendor for the distribution are supported.

Open File Management

Open file management is supported for block-level backup only.

Image Backup for Seeding

BMR

NDMP Proxy

Cluster Support

Supported File Systems for Block Backup

Ext4

Extended file system attributes are supported.

Ext3

Extended file system attributes are supported.

ReiserFS

Extended file system attributes are supported. Block level support for Linux hosts using Linux Native Multipath.

XFS

64-bit INODES are not supported for the XFS filesystem.

Table 22d. Available features for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3

Catalogic DPX Master Server

Device or SAN Device Server

File-level Backup

File-level backup supports most operating systems supported file systems. Extended file system attributes are supported for EXT3/4, ReiserFS, and XFS. Extended file system attributes are supported for Ext4 for V11 SP2 and later.

Block-level Backup

LVM2 is required. Only the default uniprocessor or SMP kernel packages provided by the Linux vendor for the distribution are supported.

Open File Management

Image Backup for Seeding

BMR

For BMR: a) Restoring to IDE or GPT disks on the target machine is not supported, however DPX 4.5.1 and later supports RHEL/Centos 7.3 and 7.4 using UEFI boot with GPT disk; b) Recovery to dissimilar hardware is supported but manual driver installation may be needed; d) The physical disk size on the target machine must be less than 2 TB; e) Linux BMR support when the whole system is on multipath device is not supported. BMR for Linux using UEFI boot is unsupported.

NDMP Proxy

Cluster Support

Supported File Systems for Block Backup

Ext4

Extended file system attributes are supported.

Ext3

Extended file system attributes are supported.

ReiserFS

Extended file system attributes are supported. Block level support for Linux hosts using Linux Native Multipath.

XFS

64-bit INODES are not supported for the XFS filesystem.

Table 22e. Available features for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2

Catalogic DPX Master Server

Device or SAN Device Server

File-level Backup

File-level backup supports most operating systems supported file systems. Extended file system attributes are supported for EXT3/4, ReiserFS, and XFS. Extended file system attributes are supported for Ext4 for V11 SP2 and later.

Block-level Backup

LVM2 is required. Only the default uniprocessor or SMP kernel packages provided by the Linux vendor for the distribution are supported.

Open File Management

Image Backup for Seeding

Only base backup is supported (for seeding purpose).

BMR

For BMR: a) Restoring to IDE or GPT disks on the target machine is not supported, however DPX 4.5.1 and later supports RHEL/Centos 7.3 and 7.4 using UEFI boot with GPT disk; b) Recovery to dissimilar hardware is supported but manual driver installation may be needed; d) The physical disk size on the target machine must be less than 2 TB; e) Linux BMR support when the whole system is on multipath device is not supported. BMR for Linux using UEFI boot is unsupported.

NDMP Proxy

Cluster Support

Supported File Systems for Block Backup

Ext4

Extended file system attributes are supported.

Ext3

Extended file system attributes are supported.

ReiserFS

Extended file system attributes are supported. Block level support for Linux hosts using Linux Native Multipath.

XFS

64-bit INODES are not supported for the XFS filesystem.

Table 22f. Available features for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1

Catalogic DPX Master Server

Device or SAN Device Server

File-level Backup

File-level backup supports most operating systems supported file systems. Extended file system attributes are supported for EXT3/4, ReiserFS, and XFS. Extended file system attributes are supported for Ext4 for V11 SP2 and later.

Block-level Backup

LVM2 is required. Only the default uniprocessor or SMP kernel packages provided by the Linux vendor for the distribution are supported.

Open File Management

Image Backup for Seeding

BMR

NDMP Proxy

Cluster Support

Supported File Systems for Block Backup

Ext4

Extended file system attributes are supported.

Ext3

Extended file system attributes are supported.

ReiserFS

Extended file system attributes are supported. Block level support for Linux hosts using Linux Native Multipath.

XFS

64-bit INODES are not supported for the XFS filesystem.

Table 22g. Available features for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

Catalogic DPX Master Server

When restoring from a Block Archive, only files and folders can be recovered. Bare metal recovery, instant virtualization, and full virtualization are not supported when restoring from Block Archive.

Device or SAN Device Server

File-level Backup

File-level backup supports most operating systems supported file systems. Extended file system attributes are supported for EXT3/4, ReiserFS, and XFS. Extended file system attributes are supported for Ext4 for V11 SP2 and later.

Block-level Backup

LVM2 is required. Only the default uniprocessor or SMP kernel packages provided by the Linux vendor for the distribution are supported.

Open File Management

Image Backup for Seeding

BMR

NDMP Proxy

Cluster Support

Supported File Systems for Block Backup

Ext4

Extended file system attributes are supported.

Ext3

Extended file system attributes are supported.

ReiserFS

Extended file system attributes are supported. Block level support for Linux hosts using Linux Native Multipath.

XFS

64-bit INODES are not supported for the XFS filesystem.

Table 22h. Available features for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4

Catalogic DPX Master Server

Block level support for Linux hosts using UEFI boot is supported.

Device or SAN Device Server

File-level Backup

File-level backup supports most operating systems supported file systems. Extended file system attributes are supported for EXT3/4, ReiserFS, and XFS. Extended file system attributes are supported for Ext4 for V11 SP2 and later.

Block-level Backup

LVM2 is required. Only the default uniprocessor or SMP kernel packages provided by the Linux vendor for the distribution are supported.

Open File Management

Image Backup for Seeding

Only base backup is supported (for seeding purpose).

BMR

For BMR: a) Restoring to IDE or GPT disks on the target machine is not supported, however DPX 4.5.1 and later supports RHEL/Centos 7.3 and 7.4 using UEFI boot with GPT disk; b) Recovery to dissimilar hardware is supported but manual driver installation may be needed; d) The physical disk size on the target machine must be less than 2 TB; e) Linux BMR support when the whole system is on multipath device is not supported. BMR for Linux using UEFI boot is unsupported.

NDMP Proxy

Cluster Support

Supported File Systems for Block Backup

Ext3

Extended file system attributes are supported.

ReiserFS

Extended file system attributes are supported. Block level support for Linux hosts using Linux Native Multipath.

Table 22i. Available features for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

Catalogic DPX Master Server

Device or SAN Device Server

File-level Backup

File-level backup supports most operating systems supported file systems. Extended file system attributes are supported for EXT3/4, ReiserFS, and XFS. Extended file system attributes are supported for Ext4 for V11 SP2 and later.

Block-level Backup

LVM2 is required. Only the default uniprocessor or SMP kernel packages provided by the Linux vendor for the distribution are supported.

Open File Management

Image Backup for Seeding

Only base backup is supported (for seeding purpose).

BMR

For BMR: a) Restoring to IDE or GPT disks on the target machine is not supported, however DPX 4.5.1 and later supports RHEL/Centos 7.3 and 7.4 using UEFI boot with GPT disk; b) Recovery to dissimilar hardware is supported but manual driver installation may be needed; d) The physical disk size on the target machine must be less than 2 TB; e) Linux BMR support when the whole system is on multipath device is not supported. BMR for Linux using UEFI boot is unsupported.

NDMP Proxy

Cluster Support

Supported File Systems for Block Backup

Ext3

Extended file system attributes are supported.

ReiserFS

Extended file system attributes are supported. Block level support for Linux hosts using Linux Native Multipath.

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