Requirements

If any of these requirements are problematic for you (or your organisation), we'd love to hear about it by email.

These requirements apply to both parts of SQL Clone:

• Windows Server 2008 R2 or later, or Windows 7 or later (64-bit versions only)
• SQL Server 2008 or later (Express edition is sufficient)
• .NET 4.5.2 or later (part of installation)

SQL Clone management service requirements

A single central management service is required to use SQL Clone, it co-ordinates agents, and serves a web UI.

Requires:

• Access to a SQL Server (2008 or later) for storing configuration data

SQL Clone agent requirements

An agent should be installed on the same machine as any SQL Server you wish SQL Clone to use as a source of images, destination for clones, or temporary scratch space for restoring backups.

This requires a user account which has:

• Local admin privileges in order to use the Virtual Disk Service
• Read/write access to network locations where images will be stored
• If you wish to use Windows Authentication for SQL Server:
  • CREATE DATABASE on local SQL Server instances where clones will be created
  • VIEW ANY DEFINITION on local SQL Server instances where images will be created from