Re: Data Protector 7 and Windows Server 2012

I would recommend that you read the Product announcements Guide very carefully before upgrading to either DP 8 or 9.  DP 8 has had multiple problems mostly involving the IDB (brand  new IDB type), and from DP 8.1 onward, there are new licenses required.

I don't know where the previous responder was getting his information, but the Platform support matrix for DP 7 does show Windows 2012 and W 2012 R/2 as being supported

https://softwaresupport.hp.com/group/softwaresupport/search-result?p_p_id=facetsearch_WAR_hpospportlet&p_p_lifecycle=2&p_p_mode=view&p_p_resource_id=downloadFile&p_p_cacheability=cacheLevelPage&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_facetsearch_WAR_hpospportlet_contentId=cid%3A532c105c002f9061810b83a0&_facetsearch_WAR_hpospportlet_fileName=DP7.00_SupportMatrix_Platform_Integration.pdf&_facetsearch_WAR_hpospportlet_docId=KM1363327&_facetsearch_WAR_hpospportlet_docId=KM1363327&_facetsearch_WAR_hpospportlet_mvcPath=%2Fhtml%2Ffacet_search%2Fsearch_detail_page.jsp&p_p_state=normal

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If you can't get a disk agent and/or a media agent to install on a Windows 2012 system, we would need to look at the error