Databases supported

The BMC Database Automation (BDA) solution supports the following database types:

Note

To get complete compatibility information for BDA, use the BMC Solution and Product Availability and Compatibility Utility on the Product Availability and Compatibility page.

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Oracle

The following Oracle versions are supported:

Notes (version 8.9.01 and later)

Oracle container database (CDB) and non-CDB database provisioning from Seed is not supported with Oracle 12.2.0.1.
Single instance (Restart-enabled) DBMS is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, RHEL 6 (64-bit only), Oracle Solaris 10 and 11, and IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1.
(Applicable for SLES 12) For Oracle 11.2.0.4, install the Oracle patch 18370031 as an inline patch. For Oracle 12.1.0.2, install the Oracle patch 18456643 as an inline patch. For more information, see http://ftp.suse.com .
Currently, BDA supports Oracle 18c, Enterprise Edition.
Currently, BDA supports Oracle 19c, Enterprise Edition.

Server	Version	RHEL 4	RHEL 5	RHEL 6	RHEL 7	OEL Linux 5	Oracle Linux 6	Oracle Linux 7	SLES 10
Single Instance	11gR1¹	¹	¹	¹	¹	¹	¹	¹
	11gR2	¹				¹			¹
	12.1.0.1		(64-bit only)	(64-bit only)		¹
	12.1.0.2		(64-bit only)	(64-bit only)		¹
	12.2.0.1
	18c			²	²		²	²
	19c ³				³
Single Instance (VCS)	11gR1 ¹	¹	¹	¹	¹	¹	¹	¹
	11gR2	¹				¹			¹
	12.1.0.1		(64-bit only)	(64-bit only)		¹
	12.1.0.2		(64-bit only)	(64-bit only)		¹
	12.2.0.1
Single Instance (Restart-enabled)	11gR1 ¹
	11gR2	¹				¹			¹
	12.1.0.1		(64-bit only)	(64-bit only)		¹
	12.1.0.2		(64-bit only)	(64-bit only)		¹
	12.2.0.1
	18c			²	²		²	²
	19c ³				³
RAC (CRS)	11gR1¹	¹	¹		¹
	11gR2	¹				¹			¹
	12.1.0.1		(64-bit only)	(64-bit only)		¹
	12.1.0.2		(64-bit only)	(64-bit only)		¹
	12.2.0.1
	18c			²	²		²	²
	19c ³				³
PDBs	12.1.0.1		(64-bit only)	(64-bit only)		¹
	12.1.0.2		(64-bit only)	(64-bit only)		¹
	12.2.0.1
	18c			²	²		²	²
	19c ³				³

¹ Discontinued support from BDA version 8.9.02.

² Support introduced in BDA version 8.9.03 Patch 2. This support is limited only to provisioning and patching.

³ Support introduced in BDA 2019 Release 02.

Server	Version	Windows 2008	Windows 2012	Windows Server 2012 R2	Windows Server 2016	Windows Server 2019
Single Instance	11gR1³	³ (no patching)
	11gR2					⁵ (64-bit only)
	12.1.0.1					⁵ (64-bit only)
	12.1.0.2					⁵ (64-bit only)
	12.2.0.1			¹ (64-bit only)	² (64-bit only)	⁵ (64-bit only)
	18c		⁴ (64-bit only)	⁴ (64-bit only)	⁴ (64-bit only)	⁵ (64-bit only)
	19c⁶		⁶ (64-bit only)	⁶ (64-bit only)	⁶ (64-bit only)	⁶ (64-bit only)
Single Instance (VCS)	11gR1 ³
	11gR2
	12.1.0.1
	12.1.0.2
	12.2.0.1
	18c
Single Instance (Restart-enabled)	11gR1 ³
	11gR2
	12.1.0.1
	12.1.0.2
	12.2.0.1
	18c
RAC (CRS)	11gR1 ³
	11gR2
	12.1.0.1
	12.1.0.2
	12.2.0.1
	18c
PDBs	12.1.0.1
	12.1.0.2
	12.2.0.1
	18c

¹Support introduced in BDA version 8.9.02.

² Support introduced in BDA version 8.9.03.

³ Discontinued support from BDA version 8.9.02.

⁴ Support introduced in BDA version 8.9.03 Patch 3.

⁵ Support introduced in BDA 2019 Release 01.

⁶ Support introduced in BDA 2019 Release 02.

Server	Version	Solaris 9	Solaris 10	Solaris 11	HP-UX 11.23	HP-UX 11.31	IBM AIX 6.1	IBM AIX 7.1	IBM AIX 7.2
Single Instance	11gR1²	²	²		²	²	²
	11gR2						²
	12.1.0.1					(Itanium only, no patching)	²
	12.1.0.2					(Itanium only, no patching)	²
	12.2.0.1		¹	¹			²
Single Instance (VCS)	11gR1 ²	²	²				² (no patching)
	11gR2						² (no patching)	(no patching)
	12.1.0.1						²
	12.1.0.2						²
	12.2.0.1						²
Single Instance (Restart-enabled)	11gR1 ²
	11gR2			(no patching)			²
	12.1.0.1						²
	12.1.0.2						²
	12.2.0.1						²
RAC (CRS)	11gR1 ²						²
	11gR2						²
	12.1.0.1						²
	12.1.0.2						²
	12.2.0.1						²
PDB	12.1.0.1					(Itanium only )	²
	12.1.0.2					(Itanium only )	²		³
	12.2.0.1						²

¹Support introduced in BDA version 8.9.02.

²Discontinued support from BDA version 8.9.02.

³Oracle pluggable database (PDB) 12.1.0.2 with only single instance DBMS is supported on IBM AIX 7.2 for BMC Database Automation.

Beginning with version 8.7.00, BDA is certified for use on Oracle Exadata systems.

The following versions are supported:

Oracle 11.2 and 12.1 using Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5.10 or 6.7 on X3-2 and X4-2 Exadata systems

The following use cases are supported:

Provisioning operations
- Create database
- Remove database
- Add instance
- Remove instance
Management operations
- Stop/start instance
- Start instance
- Apply/rollback patch (DB patches only)
- Run action (script and SQL)
Miscellaneous operations

Reports

Microsoft SQL Server

The following prerequisites are required for installing Microsoft SQL Server:

For SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 on Windows 2012:
- You must install SP3 after installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2012.
- You must install SP1 after installing SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows 2012.
For SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2:
- Clustered installations: You must install SQL Server 2008 together with SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 or a later update (this is also referred to as a slipstreamed version).
- Non-clustered installations: You must install SQL Server 2008, followed by SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 or later. Note that SQL Server 2008 express runtime is supported on Windows 2008 R2.
Install the Microsoft OLE DB Driver 18 for SQL Server (MSOLEDBSQL). This OLE DB driver complies with the latest TLS 1.2 standards.
Note

This prerequisite is mandatory for Creating a database on an instance of SQL Server and optional for Creating an instance of SQL Server.

Supported versions

Note

Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0.1 is supported for all the supported Microsoft SQL Server versions noted in this section.

The following SQL Server versions are supported for Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition, Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition, and Windows Server 2012 R2, 2012, 2008 R2 SP1, 2008 R2, 2008 SP2 Enterprise and Standard Editions:

SQL Server version	Editions	Instances
2017 (64-bit)	Standard, Developer, Enterprise, Enterprise Core Datacenter, Business Intelligence	Standalone, Standalone on Clustered, Clustered, AlwaysOn Availability Group
2016 (64-bit)	Standard, Developer, Enterprise, Enterprise Core Datacenter, Business Intelligence	Standalone, Standalone on Clustered, Clustered, AlwaysOn Availability Group
2014 (64-bit)	Standard, Developer, Enterprise, Datacenter, Business Intelligence	Standalone, Standalone on Clustered, Clustered AlwaysOn Availability Group
2012 (64-bit)	Standard, Developer, Enterprise, Datacenter, Business Intelligence	Standalone, Standalone on Clustered, Clustered AlwaysOn Availability Group
2008 R2 (64-bit)	Standard, Developer, Enterprise, Datacenter	Standalone, Standalone on Clustered
2008 R2 (32-bit)	Standard, Developer, Enterprise, Datacenter	Standalone, Standalone on Clustered
2008 (64-bit)	Standard, Developer, Enterprise, Datacenter	Standalone, Standalone on Clustered
2008 (32-bit)	Standard, Developer, Enterprise, Datacenter	Standalone, Standalone on Clustered

DB2

The following DB2 versions are supported:

Notes

BDA does not support DB2 database partitioning.
For DB2 patching, Universal fixpacks are supported, but not edition-specific patches.
In BDA 8.9, direct BDA provisioning of DB2 10.5 fixpacks 6 and 7 is supported.
BDA 2019 Release 01 supports direct BDA provisioning of DB2 11.1 fixpack 4.

DB2 version	RHEL 4	IBM AIX 6.1	IBM AIX 7.1	IBM AIX 7.2
11.5 (Enterprise Server Edition)⁴			²	³
11.1 (Enterprise Server Edition, Advanced Enterprise Server Edition and Advanced Workgroup Server Edition)
10.5 (Enterprise Server Edition and Advanced Enterprise Server Editions)		¹
10.1 (Enterprise Edition)		¹
10.1 (Advanced Enterprise Edition)		¹
9.7 (Enterprise Edition)		¹
9.7 3a (Advanced Enterprise Edition)		¹
9.5 (Enterprise Edition)	¹	¹

¹Discontinued support from BDA version 8.9.02.

² Support is applicable to AIX 7.1 Technology Level 5 and Service Pack 3.

³ Support is applicable to AIX 7.2 Technology Level 3 and Service Pack 2.

⁴ Currently, BDA supports DB2 version 11.5, Enterprise Server Edition only.

MySQL

BDA supports the following MySQL versions:

MySQL version	RHEL 5	RHEL 6	RHEL 7
5.1.59¹
5.5.16
5.5.20
5.6
5.7

¹Discontinued support from BDA version 8.9.02

MySQL can be discovered as a custom application (instance and databases), and MySQL Actions can be performed for:

Provision Instance and Create Database
Upgrade
Start Instance
Stop Instance

The Guide to BMC Database Automation MySQL Support contains information on configuring your BDA environment to discover MySQL instances, as well as the MySQL related activities that can be performed using BDA.

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) Dataserver

The following versions of SAP ASE dataserver are supported:

ASE version	RHEL 5	RHEL 6	RHEL 7	IBM AIX 6.1	IBM AIX 7.1	Solaris 10 (SPARC)
16.0				¹
15.7.0				¹
15.5.0				¹
15.0.3				¹
15.0.2¹
12.5.4¹

¹Discontinued support from BDA version 8.9.02.

SAP Replication Server

The following versions of SAP Replication Server are supported:

Repserver version	RHEL 5	RHEL 6	RHEL 7	IBM AIX 6.1	IBM AIX 7.1	Solaris 10 (SPARC)
16.0²
15.7.1				¹
15.7.0				¹
15.6.0				¹
15.5.0				¹

¹ Discontinued support from version 8.9.02.

²Support introduced in BDA version 8.9.03.

Related topic

System requirements