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	x86-64 based Linux distros supported by your storage provider
On-premises Kubernetes	Vanilla: 1.27.x, 1.26.x, 1.25.x, 1.24.x, 1.23.x OCP: 4.13.x, 4.12.x, 4.11.x, 4.10.x Rancher: 1.27.x, 1.26.x, 1.25.x, 1.24.x, 1.23.x TKGS: 1.23.0
Managed Kubernetes	AKS: 1.27.x, 1.26.x, 1.25.x, 1.24.x, 1.23.x, 1.22.x EKS: 1.27.x, 1.26.x, 1.25.x, 1.24.x, 1.23.x, 1.22.x IKS: 1.27.x, 1.26.x, 1.25.12 GKE: 1.27.x, 1.26.x, 1.25.x, 1.24.x, 1.23.x, 1.22.x Rancher: 1.27.x, 1.26.x, 1.25.x, 1.24.x ROKS: 4.13.x
Stork	23.9.1 and above
Portworx	3.0.x, 2.13.x At least 50 GB of free space on the /root file system nodes where Portworx is going to be installed
A block-based provisioner	At least 307 GB of free space to host the PVCs deployed by databases used by Portworx Backup
External Auth Providers	External OIDC and LDAP based Auth providers
FlashArray	6.4.18 6.1.4
FlashBlade	3.3.1

• 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.

NFS backup location prerequisites

Ensure that the following version prerequisites are met on your application clusters to add your NFS shares as backup target with Portworx Backup:

• Kubernetes: 1.26.x and below for both on-premises and other cloud providers
• Stork: 23.6.0 and above
• Portworx: 2.13.6 and above or 3.0.0 and above