Compatibility Matrix

Supported OS Versions for Management Server

This section lists the operating systems that are supported for running CloudStack Management Server. Note that specific versions of the operating systems are tested, so compatibility with CentOS 6.3 may not indicate compatibility with CentOS 6.2, 6.1 and so on.

  • RHEL versions 6.3, 6.5, 6.6 and 7.0
  • CentOS versions 6.8, 7
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS

Software Requirements

  • Java JRE 1.8
  • MySQL 5.6, 5.7 (RHEL 7)
  • MySQL 5.1 (RHEL 6.x)

Supported Hypervisor Versions

CloudStack supports three hypervisor families, XenServer with XAPI, KVM, and VMware with vSphere.

  • CentOS 6.2+, 7.0+ with KVM

  • Ubuntu 14.04LTS, 16.04LTS, 18.04LTS with KVM

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 with KVM

  • XenServer versions 6.1, 6.2 SP1, 6.5, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 with latest hotfixes, XCP-ng 7.4

    Note

    It is now required to enable HA on the XenServer pool in order to recover from a pool-master failure. Please refer to the XenServer documentation.

  • VMware versions 5.0 Update 3, 5.1 Update 3, 5.5 Update 3b, 6.0 Update 2, and 6.5 GA

  • LXC Host Containers on RHEL 7

  • Windows Server 2012 R2 (with Hyper-V Role enabled)

  • Hyper-V 2012 R2

  • Oracle VM 3.0+

  • Bare metal hosts are supported, which have no hypervisor. These hosts can run the following operating systems:

    • RHEL or CentOS, v6.2 or 6.3

      Note

      Use libvirt version 0.9.10 for CentOS 6.3

    • Fedora 17

    • Ubuntu 12.04

For more information, see the Hypervisor Compatibility Matrix in the CloudStack Installation Guide.

Supported External Devices

  • Netscaler VPX and MPX versions 9.3, 10.1e and 10.5
  • Netscaler SDX version 9.3, 10.1e and 10.5
  • SRX (Model srx100b) versions 10.3 to 10.4 R7.5
  • F5 11.X
  • Force 10 Switch version S4810 for Baremetal Advanced Networks

Supported Browsers

The CloudStack Web-based UI should be compatible with any modern browser, but it’s possible that some browsers will not render portions of the UI reliably, depending on their support of Web standards. For best results, one of the following browsers recommended:

  • Firefox version 31 or later
  • Google Chrome version 36.0+
  • Safari 6+

Notice Of Management OSes and Hypervisors to be Deprecated

The following hypervisors will no longer be tested from the first release AFTER 1st June 2018. And will be removed from the CloudStack codebase from the first release after 1st November 2018.

  • XenServer 6.2
  • XenServer 6.5
  • vSphere 5.0
  • vSphere 5.1

The following hypervisors will no longer be tested from the first release AFTER 1st February 2019. And will be removed from the CloudStack codebase from the first release after 1st July 2019.

  • vSphere 5.5

Please see CloudStack Wiki for details.