The Service Assurance Manager, IP Manager, NPM, MPLS, and Server Manager are supported on operating systems.

Operating System

Engineering Validated Versions

Supported Versions#

Oracle - 64 bit
  • Oracle Linux Server release 9.2-64 bit
  • Oracle Linux Server release 8.9-64 bit
  • Version 9.2 and higher minor versions
  • Version 8.8 and higher minor versions
  • Oracle Derivatives
RHEL - 64 bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2– 64 bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9– 64 bit
  • Version 9.2 and higher minor versions
  • Version 8.8 and higher minor versions
  • RHEL Derivatives

Photon OS - 64 bit

 Photon OS 4.0
Microsoft Windows Server

(Native/Virtual*)

 Only for SAM Console:
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016 - SE and DE – 64 bit
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019 - SE – 64 bit
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2022 - SE – 64 bit
  • Microsoft Windows 11 (support for 11th gen process architecture).
 Only for SAM Console:
  • 2016 SE and DE – 64 bit
  • 2019 SE and DE – 64 bit
  • 2022 SE and DE – 64 bit
Note:
  • *= Virtualized deployments of Domain Managers (IP, SAM, NPM, MPLS, and ESM) have been validated and best practices are offered only for VMware hypervisor.When deployed on other hypervisors, VMware does not support performance and interoperability issues between the OS layer and hypervisor. Check with hypervisor vendor to address issues not reproducible on physical or VMware deployed environments.
  • #= Domain Managers has been validated only on the Operating System versions mentioned under column Engineering Validated versions. On supported Operating Systems which are not validated, VMware will do its best to either provide a patch or recommend customer to upgrade to the future release of Domain Managers as deemed necessary (especially in the scenario of behavior unique to the specific RHEL derivatives or usage of deprecated features).
  • Java SE runtime environment (JRE) 17.0.9 is used for 2.3.1 products on all supported platforms.
  • Veritas cluster is not supported for Linux.