System Requirements

Hardware

• CPU
  Pentium 4 or above

• Main Memory
  4GB or more is required. (8GB or more is recommended.)

• Hard Disk
  1.5GB or more of available disk space is required.

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• Internet Connection Required for online activation of the product, issuing a license file and installation of the latest updates.

Operating System

In the environment where a user account control feature is enabled on desktop OS or other OS, you will get a message prompting you to allow execution of the program. If you encounter this case, please press [Allow] and proceed with the wizard operation.

Server Edition/Desktop Edition

Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server IoT 2019 / 2022 for Storage
Windows Storage Server 2016
Windows Storage Server 2012 R2
Windows 10 1803 (x64) or later Windows Desktop OS, including Windows 11

Virtual Edition

Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server IoT 2019 / 2022 for Storage
Windows Storage Server 2016
Windows Storage Server 2012 R2
Windows 10 1803 (x64) or later Windows Desktop OS, including Windows 11

Installation of Virtual Edition using Guest key supports virtual machine on Hyper-V or VMware vSphere only.

Cluster Edition

Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Storage Server 2016
Windows Storage Server 2012 R2

• “Windows Server failover clustering” is supported.

Cluster Edition can be installed on a computer on which failover clustering feature is configured.

Cloud Edition

Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows 10 1803 (x64) or later Windows Desktop OS, including Windows 11

Cloud Edition can be installed on virtual machines on public cloud.

IT Pro

Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server IoT 2019 / 2022 for Storage
Windows Storage Server 2016
Windows Storage Server 2012 R2
Windows 10 1803 (x64) or later Windows Desktop OS, including Windows 11.

32-bit OS is not supported.

Backup or restore of Linux machine is not supported.

File System

Hot Imaging Backup

FAT16, FAT16X, FAT32, FAT32X, NTFS, ReFS, CSVFS

The above listed file systems on MBR and GPT disks are supported.

The above listed file systems on storage spaces configured on Windows 8 or later OS are supported.

ReZooming a virtual machine created in ReFS is not supported.

Cold Imaging in RescueBoot, Boot Environment (Windows RE/PE)

FAT16, FAT16X, FAT32, FAT32X, NTFS, ReFS, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, Linux Ext4, Linux Swap

File system on Storage Space and ReFS are supported only if the boot environment is created by using Windows ADK that supports the file system.

Actiphy Boot Environment Builder supports building Boot Environment.

Cold Imaging in Boot Environment (Linux)

FAT16, FAT16X, FAT32, FAT32X, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, Linux Ext4, Linux Swap, Linux LVM, XFS, VMFS5 (Smart Sector backup for 2TB or less), VMFS6 (Full Sector backup only)

• Cold backup supports ESXi 6.5 or later.

• The above listed file systems on MBR disk and GPT disk are supported.

• A volume on storage space configured on Windows 8 or later OS is not supported.

Actiphy Boot Environment Builder supports building Linux-based Boot Environment.

Conditions for Use of Features

For more detailed information or the editions supporting the respective features, please refer to the Readme or the product’s Help.

Building RescueBoot/QuickRecovery

Windows 10 1803 (x64) or later Windows Desktop OS, Windows Server 2016 or later Windows Server OS

Inline Deduplication Compression

De-duplication requires at least 1% free space of the total volume size on the backup source, in addition to the backup image file space.

• Dual Core or above CPU (recommended)

• 8GB or more main memory (recommended)

HyperBack/HyperRecovery

Windows 10 1803 (x64) or later Windows Desktop OS, Windows Server 2012 R2 or later Windows Server OS

In the environment such as desktop OS, etc., and user account control feature is enabled, you may be requested to allow running the program. When requested, please click [Allow] and proceed with further steps according to the instructions of wizard.

• Dual Core or above CPU (recommended)

• 4GB or more of main memory (recommended)

• 1Gbps-capable NIC or above

Supported hypervisors

• VMware vSphere
  Version 6-8

  Free license version of VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) is not supported.

  Backup of virtual hardware version 7 or later virtual machine is supported.

  Use Port 902 to connect to vCenter Server for VMware vSphere or ESXi hypervisor. If you fail to establish the connection, please make sure the firewall setting is properly configured on the target host.

• Microsoft Hyper-V
  Windows Server 2012 or later

  Hyper-V 2012/2012 R2 checkpointing does not work with VSS Writer on the respective virtual machines. If you use domain controller, SQL Server, Exchange, Oracle or non-VSS-savvy database on the virtual machine, please install ActiveImage Protector and regularly take backups (Agent-based).

  Hyper-V on Windows Desktop OS is not supported.

  Please make sure that the firewall setting is configured to allow [File and Printer sharing]. If the firewall setting is configured for group policy, please select [Network] - [Network Connection] - [Windows Firewall] and enable [Allow inbound file and printer sharing exception].

The supported guest virtual machines

Windows OS and Linux distributions

After restoring Linux system on uEFI boot system, you need to create a boot entry by using CentOS LiveCD. For further details, please access here.

HyperStandby (target virtual platform)

• VMware vSphere
  Version 6-8

  Free license version of VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) is not supported.

  Use Port 902 to connect to vCenter Server for VMware vSphere or ESXi hypervisor. If you fail to establish the connection, please make sure the firewall setting is properly configured on the target host.

• Microsoft Hyper-V
  Windows Server 2008 R2 or later

Virtual Conversion

Target virtual platform for conversion to virtual machine

• VMware vSphere
  Version 6-8

  Free license version of VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) is not supported.

  Use Port 902 to connect to vCenter Server for VMware vSphere or ESXi hypervisor. If establishing the connection fails, please make sure the firewall setting is properly configured on the target host.

• Microsoft Hyper-V
  Windows Server 2008 R2 or later

Virtualization Adapter

Windows 10 or later Windows Desktop OS, Windows Server 2016 or later Windows Server OS

vStandby (target virtual platform)

• VMware vSphere
  Version 5.1 or later

  Use Port 902 to connect to vCenter Server for VMware vSphere or ESXi hypervisor. If establishing the connection fails, please make sure the firewall setting is properly configured on the target host.

  Free license version of VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) is not supported.

• Microsoft Hyper-V
  Windows Server 2008 R2 or later

BootCheck (supported hypervisor)

• Microsoft Hyper-V
  Windows Server 2012 or later

  If ActiveImage Protector runs on Windows 10, 11, BootCheck running on Hyper-V is supported.

  When using Hyper-V on a remote host, please configure the firewall setting to allow [File and Printer sharing], and [Windows Management Interface (WMI)] on the remote computer.

Others

• Intel Itanium (IA-64) based systems are not supported.

• The following features will continue to function after the Evaluation License has expired.

  • Recovery

  • File Recovery (File Recovery by using ImageExplorer, ISCSI target)

  • Image Management

  • RescueBoot/QuickRecovery

  • Remote Control