Install prerequisites
Prerequisites
The minimum supported size for the Portworx Backup cluster is three worker nodes. Each node must meet the following hardware, software, and network requirements:
| Hardware Requirements | |
|---|---|
| For 2000 backups | |
| CPU | 4 CPU cores minimum, (8 recommended) |
| RAM | 4 GB (8 GB recommended) |
| Backend drive | 307 GB (In Total) |
| For 10000 to 15000 backups | |
| CPU | 8 CPU cores |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Backend drive | 307 GB (In Total) |
| Software Requirements | |
|---|---|
| Operating System | |
| On-premises Kubernetes | |
| Managed Kubernetes | |
| Stork | |
| Portworx | |
| A block-based provisioner | |
| External Auth Providers | |
| FlashArray | |
| FlashBlade | |
If you are using an external authorization provider, you must use certificates signed by a trusted certificate authority.
Make sure helm is installed on the client machine: Helm
note
Portworx Backup 2.3.0 and above use MongoDB 5.x versions internally, which require Intel/AMD chipsets that support Advance Vector Extensions (AVX). If you are deploying Portworx Backup 2.3.0 and above, please ensure that your Intel/AMD chipset versions support AVX.
Feature support matrix
| Feature | Portworx Backup Release | Recommended Kubernetes version | Minimum Recommended version of Stork | Minimum Recommended version of Portworx Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Object lock | 2.2.0 | 1.22.x and above | 2.10.x | 2.9.1.4 |
| Rancher | 2.4.0 | 1.25.0 and above | 23.2.0 | 2.12.x |
| Namespace labels | ||||
| NFS backup location | 2.5.0 | 1.26.x for both on-premises and other cloud providers | 23.6.0 | 2.13.10 |
| Backup and restore VMs with KubeVirt | 2.6.0 | 1.27 | 23.9.0 | 2.13.11 |
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