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  2. NetBackup™ Self Service Installation Guide
  3. Appendix A. Software requirements
  4. NetBackup software requirements for Self Service
NetBackup™ Self Service Installation Guide

NetBackup software requirements for Self Service

NetBackup 8.0 or later with the latest service pack is required. With a Windows primary server, only US English operating system and code page installations of NetBackup are supported. NetBackup language packs are not supported.

With a UNIX primary server, the character encoding of the primary server operating system must be UTF-8. Multiple locales are supported. NetBackup language packs are supported.

NetBackup appliances are supported.

Software requirements for Self Service

The Self Service software requirements are

  • If using a vCloud Director Integrated configuration, check the Software Compatibility List for supported API versions.

    http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility

  • NetBackup Self Service works on any virtual platform, such as Hyper-V or vSphere, provided one of the supported operating systems is installed.

The lists that are shown define the supported operating systems, SQL servers, and web browsers. The latest service pack should always be used.

Note:

Any version of operating system, SQL server, and web browser that is not listed as Supported is considered unsupported.

Supported operating systems:

  • Windows Server 2016

  • Windows Server 2019

  • Windows Server 2022

  • Windows Server 2025

Supported SQL server:

  • SQL Server 2016

  • SQL Server 2017

  • SQL Server 2019

  • SQL Server 2022

  • Azure SQL database

  • SQL Server on Amazon RDS

Supported browsers:

  • Internet Explorer

  • Edge

  • Firefox

  • Chrome

  • Safari (supported, but not recommended)

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