Supported Systems and Databases

Guest Operating Systems

• Windows Server^2,4: 2008 R2 x64 and up
• Windows Desktop^2,4: 10, 11
• Linux^1,4: CentOS and RHEL (6.0 and up), Solaris (10, 11 SPARC V9 64-bit), SUSE LES (11 SP4, and up), Ubuntu (14.x and up), and Rocky Linux (8.7, 9.1)

Hypervisors and Virtual Machines

• Nutanix Acropolis AOS 5.1.1, 5.5.3.1, 5.8.2, 5.10.x, 5.15, 5.16, 5.17.x, 5.18.1, 5.19.1, 5.20, and 6.5.x
• VMWare ESXi 6.5, 6.7, 7.0(U1-U3), and 8.0(U1 and U2)⁵
• Virtual Machine Hardware 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, and 20

Databases

• Microsoft Exchange¹: 2016 and 2019
• Microsoft SQL Server^1,3: Express, 2016 - 2022
• Oracle RMAN, MySQL, and PostgreSQL are supported for “dump to file.”

Applications

• Microsoft 365 Exchange Online Mailbox
• Microsoft 365 OneDrive
• Microsoft 365 Sharepoint
• Microsoft 365 Teams

Additional Notes

All VMs must be running up-to-date VMware Tools.

Support for Expedient Enterprise Cloud clients only.

Independent disks are not supported.

¹Data protection of these items will require the Cohesity Helper App (agent) and additional network connectivity.

²Fully automated file/folder recovery of these items will require a dynamic agent push and additional network connectivity.

³MS SQL Server 64-bit running on Windows 64-bit is supported. Microsoft SQL Server 32-bit is not supported.

⁴Agent-based backups for 32-bit Operating Systems are not supported.

⁵Backups of vSphere Cluster Services servers are not permitted within the Cohesity platform.