Vertica server and Management Console

OpenText supports the Vertica Analytic Database running on the following 64-bit operating systems and versions on x86_x64 architecture.

Operating systems and versions

OpenText supports the Vertica Analytic Database 23.4.x running on the following 64-bit operating systems and versions on x86_x64 architecture.

In general, OpenText provides support for the Vertica Analytic Database, not its host operating system, hardware, or other environmental elements. However, OpenText makes an effort to ensure the success of its customers on recent versions of the following popular operating systems for the x86_64 architecture.

When there are multiple minor versions supported for a major operating system release, OpenText recommends that you run Vertica on the latest minor version listed in the supported versions list. For example, if you run Vertica on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x release, OpenText recommends you upgrade to or be running the latest supported RHEL 8.x release.

Important

Vertica does not support or recommend in-place upgrades from one major version to another major version. For example, you cannot perform in-place upgrades from RHEL/CentOS 7.x to RHEL/CentOS 8.x.

Platform	Processor	Supported Versions	Known Issues
Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS Important For information on how to upgrade your Red Hat Enterprise Linux version, see Upgrading your operating system on nodes in your Vertica cluster. Vertica supports CentOS based on testing and troubleshooting done on the associated Red Hat Enterprise Linux version.	x86_64	7.x: all with known issues Deprecated RHEL 7.x support is deprecated and will not be officially supported in Vertica versions 24.1 and higher. For upgrade information, see Upgrading from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8. 8.x: all with known issues	8.x: There are some circumstances where you cannot create a cluster from Management Console due to an issue with the private key file. To create R extensions, manually install the `libgfortran4` package. Download the applicable package from the CentOS Linux and Stream releases page.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server	x86_64	12 SP2 and higher 15.x: all
openSUSE	x86_64	42.3
Oracle Enterprise Linux (Red Hat compatible kernels only)	x86_64	7.x: all Deprecated OEL 6.x and 7.x support is deprecated and will not be officially supported in Vertica versions 24.1 and higher.
Debian Linux	x86_64	8.5, 8.9 10.x: with known issues	10.2: On Vertica 9.3 and higher, you cannot restart the Management Console using the MC Interface in your browser. To restart the Management Console, enter one of the following commands: `systemctl restart vertica-consoled`
Ubuntu	x86_64	14.04 LTS and higher with known issues	16.x/18.x: On Vertica 9.3 and higher, you cannot restart the Management Console using the MC Interface in your browser. To restart the Management Console, enter one of the following commands: `systemctl restart vertica-consoled` `/etc/init.d/vertica-consoled restart`

Recommended storage format types

Choose the storage format type based on deployment requirements. Vertica recommends the following storage format types where applicable:

ext3
ext4
NFS for backup
XFS
Amazon S3 Standard, Azure Blob Storage, or Google Cloud Storage for communal storage and related backup tasks when running in Eon Mode

Note

For the Vertica I/O profile, the ext4 file system is considerably faster than ext3.

The storage format type at your backup and temporary directory locations must support fcntl lockf (POSIX) file locking.

You can view the file systems in use on your nodes by querying the system table STORAGE_USAGE.

Vertica users have successfully deployed other file systems, Vertica cannot guarantee or desired outcomes on all storage format types. In certain support situations, you may be asked to migrate to a recommended storage format type to help with troubleshooting or to fix an issue.

Vertica Analytic Database supports Linux Volume Manager (LVM) on all supported operating systems. Your LVM version must be 2.02.66 or later, and must include device-mapper version 1.02.48 or later. For information on requirements and restrictions, see the section, Vertica Support for LVM.

Network address family support

Vertica server supports IPv4 and IPv6 network addresses for both internal and external communications. The database cluster uses IPv4 by for internal communications by default. You can choose to have the cluster use IPv6 for its internal communications when you install Vertica and create the cluster.

Vertica supports using IPv6 to identify nodes in the database cluster. However, AWS DNS resolution does not support IPv6. To have a cluster in AWS that uses IPv6, use the IPv6 IP addresses instead of using host names when installing Vertica and forming the cluster.

Currently, Vertica does not support using IPv6 on Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure.

The MC currently does not support IPv6. If your Vertica database uses IPv6 for internal communications, the MC will not be able to connect to or manage the database. The MC must communicate with the database cluster using its own internal network addresses.

Supported browsers for Management Console

Vertica Analytic Database 23.4.x Management Console is supported on the following web browsers:

Chrome
Firefox
Microsoft Edge