System Requirements

Hardware

• CPU
  Pentium 4 or above

• Main Memory
  2 GB or more is required.

  3 GB or above is required for RescueBoot boot environment).

  4GB or above is required when specifying Cloud for the destination saving backup image file.

• Hard Disk Space
  2 GB or more of available hard disk space is required at setup of the product.
  7 GB or more of available hard disk space is required for building AIP Boot Environment. 512 MB or more of available hard disk space is required when Boot Environment is not included.
  

10% of available space in the respective volumes for change tracking to take snapshots and incremental backups.

To run backup tasks using the Deduplication Compression feature, reserving 1% or more of the total data of the backup source for saving the temporary working files in a volume that should not be included in the backup source is required.
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• DVD-ROM Drive
  Required to install the product and boot up the ActiveImage Protector Boot Environment.

Distribution

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 - 7.9 / 8.0 - 8.9 / 9.0 - 9.3
• CentOS 7.0 - 7.9 / 8.1 - 8.4
• Oracle Linux 7.0 - 7.9 / 8.1 - 8.9 / 9.0 - 9.3
  ** Oracle Linux 8.7 - 8.9 with UEK are not supported.
• AlmaLinux 8.3 - 8.9 / 9.0 - 9.3
• Rocky Linux 8.3 - 8.9 / 9.0 - 9.3
• MIRACLE LINUX 8.4, 8.6, 8.8 / 9.0, 9.2
• Amazon Linux 2
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 / Desktop 15
• OpenSUSE Leap 15
  ** Internet connection is required.
  
• Ubuntu 18.04LTS / 20.04LTS / 22.04LTS
  
• Debian 9 - 12
  

Notes on installation of the product

• ActiveImage Protector Linux Edition supports only x86_64 architecture.

• Secure Boot is not supported.

• If installing the product on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or clone OS of the equivalent OS, please make sure the following packages are installed to run ActiveImage Protector’s installer.
  glibc.x86_64, libgcc.x86_64, libstdc++.x86_64, libuuid.x86_64, make.x86_64, nss-softokn-freebl.x86_64, zlib.x86_64, kernel-devel
  

  • For further details, please access Required package and driver installation for setting up the product.

File System

XFS, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, Linux Ext4, Linux Swap, Linux LVM (volume group and logical volume), Linux RAID

• Linux RAID configured on dmraid is not supported.
  
• Bare metal recovery does not support Linux RAID configured on mdraid.
• LVM thin-provisioned environment is not supported.
  
• Only basic LVM configurations and standard partition configurations are supported.

Windows console for Remote Manager

ActiveImage Protector Linux Edition comes with ActiveImage Console to provide remote management capabilities and operate ActiveImage Protector installed on Linux system from Windows OS even when X Window is not configured.

• Supported Windows OS
  Windows 10 (x64) or later Windows Desktop OS, Windows Server 2016 or later Windows Server OS.