Merge pull request #185283 from v-amallick/master

MABS - Win 11 OS support update

Author: PRMerger4

articles/backup/backup-mabs-protection-matrix.md

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 title: MABS (Azure Backup Server) V3 UR1 protection matrix
 description: This article provides a support matrix listing all workloads, data types, and installations that Azure Backup Server protects.
-ms.date: 12/09/2021
+ms.date: 01/18/2022
 ms.topic: conceptual
 author: v-amallick
 ms.service: backup
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ The following sections details the protection support matrix for MABS:
 
 | **Workload**               | **Version**                                                  | **Azure Backup Server   installation**                       | **Supported Azure Backup Server** | **Protection and recovery**                                  |
 | -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
-| Client  computers (64-bit) | Windows  10                                                  | Physical  server  <br><br>    Hyper-V virtual machine   <br><br>   VMware virtual machine | V3 UR1 and V3 UR2                            | Volume,  share, folder, files, deduped volumes   <br><br>   Protected volumes must be NTFS. FAT and FAT32 aren't supported.  <br><br>    Volumes must be at least 1 GB. Azure Backup Server uses Volume Shadow Copy  Service (VSS) to take the data snapshot and the snapshot only works if the  volume is at least 1 GB. |
+| Client  computers (64-bit) | Windows 11, Windows 10                                                  | Physical  server  <br><br>    Hyper-V virtual machine   <br><br>   VMware virtual machine | V3 UR1 and V3 UR2                            | Volume,  share, folder, files, deduped volumes   <br><br>   Protected volumes must be NTFS. FAT and FAT32 aren't supported.  <br><br>    Volumes must be at least 1 GB. Azure Backup Server uses Volume Shadow Copy  Service (VSS) to take the data snapshot and the snapshot only works if the  volume is at least 1 GB. |
 | Servers  (64-bit)          | Windows  Server 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2, 2012                    | Azure  virtual machine (when workload is running as Azure virtual machine)  <br><br>    Physical server  <br><br>    Hyper-V virtual machine <br><br>     VMware virtual machine  <br><br>    Azure Stack | V3 UR1 and V3 UR2                            | Volume,  share, folder, file <br><br>    Deduped  volumes (NTFS only) <br><br>When protecting a WS 2016 NTFS deduped volume with MABS v3 running on Windows Server 2019, the recoveries may be affected. We have a fix for doing recoveries in a non-deduped way that will be part of later versions of MABS. Contact MABS support if you need this fix on MABS v3 UR1.<br><br> When protecting a WS 2019 NTFS deduped volume with MABS v3 on Windows Server 2016, the backups and restores will be non-deduped. This means that the backups will consume more space on the MABS server than the original NTFS deduped volume.   <br><br>   System  state and  bare metal  (Not  supported when workload is running as Azure virtual machine) |
 | Servers  (64-bit)          | Windows  Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2008 SP2  (You  need to install [Windows Management Framework](https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=54616)) | Physical  server  <br><br>    Hyper-V virtual machine  <br><br>      VMware  virtual machine  <br><br>   Azure Stack | V3 UR1 and V3 UR2                           | Volume,  share, folder, file, system state/bare metal        |
 | SQL  Server                | SQL  Server 2019, 2017, 2016 and [supported SPs](https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search?alpha=SQL%20Server%202016), 2014 and supported [SPs](https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search?alpha=SQL%20Server%202014) | Physical  server  <br><br>     Hyper-V virtual machine   <br><br>     VMware  virtual machine  <br><br>   Azure virtual machine (when workload is running as Azure virtual machine)  <br><br>     Azure Stack | V3 UR1 and V3 UR2                            | All  deployment scenarios: database       <br><br>    MABS v3 UR2 and later supports the backup of SQL database, stored on the Cluster Shared Volume.     <br><br>  MABS v3 UR1 supports the backup of SQL databases over ReFS volumes     <br><br>     MABS doesn't support SQL Server databases hosted on Windows Server 2012 Scale-Out File Servers (SOFS). <br><br>   MABS can't protect SQL server Distributed Availability Group (DAG) or Availability Group (AG), where the role name on the failover cluster is different than the named AG on SQL.       |