A hypervisor creates and runs virtual machines (guests) on a host machine. Each guest has its own operating system, which can differ from the OS of the host machine.
Two main integration points between Rapid Recovery and hypervisors relate to virtual export, and agentless protection.
Virtual export. Using the virtual export feature of Rapid Recovery, you can perform a one-time virtual export, or define requirements for continual virtual export (this feature is also called "virtual standby"). This process can be performed from any protected machine, physical or virtual. If a protected machine goes down, you can boot up the virtual machine and use it to continue day-to-day operations.
When exporting to ESXi, Hyper-V, or VMware Workstation, you must use the full licensed versions of those hypervisors, not free versions.
Rapid Recovery lets you perform virtual export to VM hosts described in the matrices below.
Agentless protection. Agentless protection for hypervisors is supported as described in the matrices below.
Rapid Recovery explicitly supports the following hypervisors:
VMware Workstation
Rapid Recovery lets you perform virtual export to the following VMware Workstation hosts. There is no agentless support for VMware Workstation.
Table 7: Rapid RecoverySupport for VMware Workstation
VMware Workstation 15.x1 |
Limited support |
March 2021 |
VMware Workstation 16 Pro |
Limited support |
December 2022 |
1 These Workstation versions have passed the end of general support with VMware. Rapid Recovery support for these versions is listed above.
2 Full support provided until end of general support date listed; thereafter, only limited support is provided in that Rapid Recovery release.
Quest strongly recommends running on the most recent supported VMware product version.
VMware vCenter/ESXi Microsoft Hyper-V
Rapid Recovery lets you perform virtual export to supported VMware vCenter/ESXi hosts, and supports protection in a Rapid Recovery Core of vCenter/ESXi guest VMs. The following vCenter/ESXi versions are supported:
Table 8: Rapid Recovery Support for vCenter/ESXi
vCenter/ESXi 6.7 |
Full support |
Full support |
November 15, 2021 |
vCenter/ESXi 7.0 |
Full support |
Full support |
April, 2025 |
vCenter/ESXi 8.0 |
Full support |
Full support |
October 11, 2027 |
1 Full support provided until end of general support date listed; thereafter, only limited support is provided in that Rapid Recovery release.
Quest strongly recommends running on the most recent supported VMware product version.
Quest recommends installing the most recent version of VMware Tools on protected VMs on vSphere or ESXi hosts.
Rapid Recovery supports only licensed versions of ESXi for agentless protection. Users of ESXi Free edition must use Agent-based protection and Agent-based licensing (socket-based licensing is not available to users of ESXi Free).
Microsoft Hyper-V
Rapid Recovery lets you perform virtual export to Microsoft Hyper-V hosts, and supports protection in a Rapid Recovery Core of Hyper-V guests on the following Hyper-V operating systems:
Table 9: Rapid Recovery Support for Hyper-V
Windows Server 2012 |
Full support |
Full support |
October 10, 2023 |
Windows Server 2012 R2 |
Full support |
Full support |
October 10, 2023 |
Windows Server 2016 |
Full support |
Full support |
January 11, 2022 |
Windows Server 2019 |
Full support |
Full support |
January 9, 2024 |
Windows Server 2022 |
Full support |
Full support |
October 13, 2026 |
Windows 83 |
Limited support |
Limited support |
January 14, 2014 |
Windows 8.13 |
Limited support |
Full support |
January 14, 2014 |
Windows 10 |
Limited support |
Full support |
October 13, 2020 |
Windows 11 |
Limited support |
Full support |
October 10, 2023 |
1 For virtual export to any Hyper-V host, .NET v.4.6.2 or later and .NET 2.0 or later are required on the Hyper-V host. If experiencing crashes of the Rapid Recovery Core with System.AccessViolationException, try upgrading the .NET Framework to version 4.7.2 or later.
2 Since Rapid Recovery Agent software must be installed on the Hyper-V host, but not on Hyper-V guest VMs, Quest also refers to this type of agentless support as host-based support.
3 These operating systems have passed the end of mainstream support with Microsoft. Rapid Recovery support for these versions is listed above.
Quest recommends installing Hyper-V Integration Services on VMs you want to protect on Hyper-V hosts.
Protected machines with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) operating systems support virtual export to Hyper-V second-generation hosts.
Oracle VM VirtualBox
Rapid Recovery lets you perform virtual export to the following Oracle VM VirtualBox versions, on both Windows and Linux platforms. There is no agentless support for VirtualBox .
Table 10: Rapid Recovery Support for Oracle VM VirtualBox
VirtualBox 5.13 |
Limited support |
April 2018 |
VirtualBox 5.23 |
Limited support |
July 2020 |
VirtualBox 6.0 |
Full support |
December 2023 |
VirtualBox 7.0 |
Full support |
NA |