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.
CloudStack supports three hypervisor families, XenServer with XAPI, KVM, and VMware with vSphere.
LXC Host Containers on RHEL 7
Windows Server 2012 R2 (with Hyper-V Role enabled)
Hyper-V 2012 R2
CentOS 6.2+ with KVM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 with KVM
XenServer versions 6.1, 6.2 SP1 and 6.5 with latest hotfixes
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 3a, 5.1 Update 2a, and 5.5 Update 2
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`_.
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: