This section provides you with important information on deployment limitations and supported environments of different devices.
You may refer to the following sections to learn more details regarding different devices and deployment requirements.
For Active Backup for Business 2.1.0 and above versions, a Synology NAS running DSM 6.2 or above is required. For Active Backup for Business 2.0.4 and previous versions, a Synology NAS running DSM 6.1.7 or above is required. Active Backup for Business can only run on x64 Synology NAS servers with Btrfs file system. For backup performance, it is recommended to have at least 4G of RAM and not to set up the shared folder quota due to deduplication mechanism.
Active Backup for Business supports backing up end-point devices running on Windows platform.
For backing up the physical server, Active Backup for Business supports Windows operating system.
For backing up the file server, Active Backup for Business supports the servers running with SMB (Windows) and rsync 3.0 or above (Linux) protocol. You may back up data to your Synology NAS using Active Backup for Business.
This section provides you with important information on deployment limitations and supported virtual machine (VM) environments on VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V.
For VMware vSphere virtual machine backup, Active Backup for Business supports the following versions of the VMware vSphere platform.
To perform operations successfully and enable the communication between Synology NAS and VMware servers, the following TCP ports are required.
TCP Port | Where | Notes |
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443 | vCenter Server, ESXi Host | Default port used for connections to VMware infrastructure (vCenter server and ESXi host). Must be opened on vCenter Servers and ESXi hosts. |
902 | ESXi Host | Port used for data transfer and moving. Must be opened on ESXi hosts. |
When using Active Backup for Business to back up Hyper-V, a data mover will be installed on the Hyper-V host. Therefore, a host's system volume with at least 512MB of free storage space is required.
For Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine backup, Active Backup for Business supports the following versions.
Since some of the Windows built-in services are leveraged when performing backup and restoration, the Windows services mentioned below are required to be enabled. Please note that some of the settings are enabled by default, and these settings will not need to be enabled again if these settings are not changed after the installation.
To perform operations successfully and enable the communication between Synology NAS and Hyper-V servers, the following TCP ports are required.
TCP Port | Where | Notes |
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445 (SMB port) | Hyper-V Host | Port used for receiving and transferring data from Hyper-V to Synology NAS. |
5510 | Synology NAS | Port used for receiving and transferring data from Hyper-V to Synology NAS. |
5986 | Hyper-V Host | Port used for in-flight encryption when transferring and moving data. This port must be opened on Hyper-V hosts. |
5985 | Hyper-V Host | Port used for data transferring and moving. This port must be opened on Hyper-V hosts. |