Operating System and Cloud Support

This section will cover the supported Operating Systems and supported Cloud deployment configurations for Dbvisit StandbyMP product.

We strongly recommend to have same version of operating system on primary and standby server.

When deploying Dbvcontrol component on separate server, its Operating system can be completely different from primary and standby database server, but still needs to match Supported Operating System from the list below.

1. Supported Operating Systems List

Following table lists all supported Operating Systems for installation of Dbvisit StandbyMP:

Supported Linux Platform Distributions	Supported Windows Platform Versions (64-bit)
Oracle Linux 6 Oracle Linux 7 Oracle Linux 8 Oracle Linux 9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15	Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2022

In addition to the above, following Linux distributions are supported for installation of Dbvisit StandbyMP for Postgres database platform ONLY:

Supported Linux Platform Distributions (Postgres Database platform only)
Rocky Linux (8 and 9 only) CentOS (7 and 6 only) Fedora Ubuntu

2. Supported combinations of Operating Systems and Database versions

Even if your operating system is supported for installation of Dbvisit StandbyMP, you always need to consider specific database version and platform you will be using.

Dbvisit StandbyMP does support only database vendor certified operating system and database version combinations. For example, Oracle database 11g is not certified for Oracle Linux 8, hence Dbvisit StandbyMP will not support such combination either.

You must make sure your Operating System version and Database software version are certified by the database vendor. This includes both: Primary and Standby server.

Oracle certified combinations can be found on MOS:

https://support.oracle.com

SQL Server certified combinations:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/database-engine/install/windows/use-sql-server-in-windows

Postgres certified combinations:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/supported-platforms.html

In addition, Dbvisit StandbyMP Postgres support for Windows platform is limited for following combinations only:

PostgreSQL Version	Supported Windows Platform Versions (64-bit)
16	2022, 2019
15	2019, 2016
14	2019, 2016
13	2019, 2016
12	2019, 2016, 2012 R2
11	2019, 2016, 2012 R2
10	2016, 2012 R2 & R1

3. Support for heterogenous and cross platform deployments

Dbvisit StandbyMP does not support cross-platform replication (Windows=>Linux). The only exception is SQL Server, where cross platform is supported.
Dbvisit StandbyMP supports deployments where primary and standby operating system versions are different. This is useful for migration use cases. For example if primary server is OEL6 and standby server is OEL8, Dbvisit StandbyMP can be deployed to such environment. The operating system and database version must still be certified by database software vendor.

4. Support for Cloud deployments

Below is support Matrix for deploying Dbvisit StandbyMP product on Cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments. Dbvisit StandbyMP always requires underlying operating system, which is the reason why AWS RDS and OCI Autonomous Databases are not supported.

Source/Target	AWS EC2	AWS RDS	AWS RDS Custom	OCI DBS (Oracle RDBMS only)	OCI Compute	OCI Autonomous	Azure VM	On-Prem
On-Prem	Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Partially Supported*	Supported	Not Supported	Supported	Supported
AWS EC2	Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Partially Supported*	Supported	Not Supported	Supported	Supported
AWS RDS	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported
AWS RDS Custom	Not Supported	Not Supported	Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported
OCI DBS (Oracle RDBMS only)	Partially Supported*	Not Supported	Not Supported	Supported	Partially Supported*	Not Supported	Partially Supported*	Partially Supported*
OCI Compute	Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Partially Supported*	Supported	Not Supported	Supported	Supported
OCI Autonomous	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported
Azure VM	Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Partially Supported*	Supported	Not Supported	Supported	Supported
On-Prem	Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Partially Supported*	Supported	Not Supported	Supported	Supported

*Oracle enforces Advanced Security option for OCI DBS systems. Advanced Security option is Enterprise Edition feature only, making it impossible to run synchronization when Source is OCI DBS and target is On-prem Standard Edition 2 database.