Tentando encontrar uma resposta para isso. Um fornecedor com quem trabalho, Red Gate, escreveu em sua documentação:
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.
Requires:
- Minimum (limited to <1.8TB images): Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7
- Recommended (limited to <64TB images): At least Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8.1
- SQL Server 2008 or later (Express edition is sufficient - though Clones will not circumvent SQL Server Express' 10GB database size limit)
- .NET Framework 4.6.1 or later (part of installation)
- Outbound connection to remote (SQL Clone Server) port 14146 must be allowed
This requires a Windows 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