Supported Platforms

This section contains information on updates to supported platforms for Vertica Analytic Database 8.1.x. Administrator's Guide

Changes for Operating System Support

Vertica operating system support changes follow.

Server

Vertica has added support for these operating systems:

For a list of all supported operating systems, see Vertica Server and Vertica Management Console.

Vertica has added support for Linux Volume Manager on RHEL 6.8. For information on supported file systems, See Vertica Server and Vertica Management Console. For information on requirements and restrictions, see the section, Vertica Support for LVM.

Vertica has ended support for RHEL 6.5 and CentOS 6.5. For more information, refer to End-of-Support and Deprecation Notices.

Client

Vertica has added support for the following:

For a complete list of client drivers, see Vertica 8.1.x Client Drivers.

For information on FIPS 140-2 prerequisites, see FIPS 140-2 Supported Platforms.

Vertica has ended support for AIX 5.3, AIX 5.6, and Mac OS X 10.9. For more information, refer to End-of-Support and Deprecation Notices.

ODBC Client Driver Backwards Compatibility

In general, all Vertica clients are forward compatible with later Vertica server versions. For Release 8.1.x, Vertica has added backwards compatibility for the ODBC client driver.

Changes for Hadoop and Kafka Distribution Support

Vertica has added support for the following:

For a list of supported Hadoop distributions, see Vertica Integrations for Hadoop.

For a list of supported Apache Kafka distributions, see Vertica Integration for Apache Kafka.

Vertica has ended support for Cloudera CDH 5.6, Hortonworks HDP 2.3, MapR 4.1 and 5.0, and Apache Kafka 0.8. For more information, refer to End-of-Support and Deprecation Notices.

More Details

For complete information on platform support see Vertica 8.1.x Supported Platforms