Scanning Support Matrix – CloudSphere

Operating Systems

CloudSphere supports the following OS versions for inventory and performance metrics collection

Windows Servers	Editions Tested	Inventory Data	Performance Data	Notes
Windows Server 2019	Std, Datacenter	Yes	Yes	See: How Scanning Works for the description of performance data collection
Windows Server 2016	Std, Datacenter	Yes	Yes	See: How Scanning Works for the description of performance data collection
Windows Server 2012 / R2	Std, Datacenter, Foundation	Yes	Yes	See: How Scanning Works for the description of performance data collection
Windows Server 2008 / R2	Std, Ent, Datacenter	Yes	Yes	See: How Scanning Works for the description of performance data collection
Windows Server 2003	Std (32/64), Ent (32/64)	Yes	Yes	The Discovery of process-to-port mapping needed to support dependency graphs requires an executable deployed to targets by our tooling (opt-in). Enable “tcpvcon“ in Scan Job details to fully discover these systems. See: How Scanning Works for the description of performance data collection

Linux Servers	Versions Tested	Inventory Data	Performance Data	Notes
Ubuntu	12.04 → 20.04	Yes	Yes	See: How Scanning Works for the description of performance data collection
Centos	5.8 → 8.2.2004	Yes	Yes	See: How Scanning Works for the description of performance data collection
Debian	6 → 9	Yes	Yes	See: How Scanning Works for the description of performance data collection
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)	10 → 15.1	Yes	Yes	See: How Scanning Works for the description of performance data collection
Fedora	10	Yes	Yes	See: How Scanning Works for the description of performance data collection
RedHat Ent Linux	5.5 → 7.9	Yes	Yes	See: How Scanning Works for the description of performance data collection
Oracle Linux	6.4 → 7.5	Yes	Yes	See: How Scanning Works for the description of performance data collection
Amazon Linux	2	Yes	Yes	See: How Scanning Works for the description of performance data collection

Other Operating Systems	Versions Tested	Inventory Data	Performance Data	Notes
Solaris	8.x → 11.4	Yes	-
AIX	5.x, 6.x, 7.x	Yes	-	Requires availability of lsof and admin privilege escalation SUDO for inventory/scanning for credentials used for scanning
HP-UX	10x, 11x	Yes	-	Requires availability of lsof and admin privilege escalation SUDO for inventory/scanning for credentials used for scanning

CloudSphere supports the following Microsoft SQL versions for inventory and metric collection:

Microsoft SQL Version	Service Packs Tested	Inventory Data	Performance Data	Notes
SQL Server 2019	Base	Yes	Yes	Metrics collection is by a single DB query operation
SQL Server 2017	Base	Yes	Yes	Metrics collection is by a single DB query operation
SQL Server 2016	Base, SP2	Yes	Yes	Metrics collection is by a single DB query operation
SQL Server 2014	Base, SP1, SP2	Yes	Yes	Metrics collection is by a single DB query operation
SQL Server 2012	Base, SP1, SP2, SP3, SP4	Yes	Yes	Metrics collection is by a single DB query operation
SQL Server 2008	Base, SP1, SP2, SP3	Yes	-	Performance not tested
SQL Server 2005	Base, SP3	Yes	-	Performance not tested

CloudSphere supports the following Hypervisors for inventory scanning i.e. scanning these technologies as target types.

Hypervisor	Versions Tested	Discover Hosts	Inventory	Notes
VMware VCenter	5 → 6.7	Yes	Yes	Primary virtualization technology supported. Inventory collects additional data to model the vCenter Cluster
HyperV	6.3	Yes	-	Hypervisor not modeled/discovered.
Solaris Zones	10,11.4	-	-	Limited to Identification of zone & zone type of target only.
KVM	-	-	-	Detection of targets only