Prerequisites

The following prerequisite software is supported in this version.

Operating systems

  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (64 bit)
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (64 bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64 bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (64 bit)
  • Red Hat Linux 6.5
  • Red Hat Linux 7.0 (New in 4.3.1.)

Databases

  • PostgreSQL 9.1 & 9.3
  • MySQL 5.5 [1]
  • MySQL 5.6 [1]

Application servers

  • Native deployment (New in 4.3.)
  • GlassFish 3.1 [2]
  • JBoss 6.1 [1]

Java

  • Oracle JDK 1.7 (only 7u25 or 7u67)

Other

  • Solr 4.5.1 (if installed manually)
  • Zookeeper 3.4.5 (for HA systems) [1]

Important notes

  • When installing a fresh Vidispine system towards PostgreSQL, the template1 database in PostgreSQL must be accessible in order for the installer to be able to create the Vidispine database.

  • For GlassFish: ONLY use Java version 7u25 or 7u67 and stay away from Java 7u40, 7u45 and 7u51, as they do not work properly with GlassFish 3. See GLASSFISH-20814.

    Native deployment: Use the latest Java provided by the distribution, as required by the native packages.

Limitations

  • RED format is not supported on Windows systems.
  • Deployment on Microsoft Windows only supports GlassFish and PostgreSQL. Windows User Access Control (UAC) must be turned off prior to installing.
  • JBoss AS 6.1 is not fully compatible with Java 7, which can show itself in Vidispine when fetching metadata with terse=yes, as in GET API/item/{id}/metadata?content=metadata&terse=yes, which will throw an error.
[1](1, 2, 3, 4) Vidispine Enterprise edition only.
[2]GlassFish 4.0 is not supported.