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verify your environment meets these requirements supported hardware {{ch}} , 7 0 2 x or later supported operating systems microsoft windows mysql enterprise edition is compatible with several versions of windows, including windows server 2016, windows server 2012 r2, windows server 2012, windows server 2008 r2, and windows 10 professional and enterprise editions linux mysql is compatible with several popular enterprise focused linux distributions these include red hat enterprise linux, oracle linux, suse linux enterprise server, ubuntu, debian, fedora, and centos oracle solaris mysql supports solaris 10 and 11, the oracle unix based operating system macos mysql supports macos for development purposes, but it's typically not used for production environments on this platform freebsd mysql is compatible with this free and open source unix like operating system, though it's not as commonly used for enterprise database deployments as linux or windows ibm aix mysql supports the ibm proprietary unix operating system, aix, though this tends to be less common than linux or windows deployments required access an account on the {{ch}} with administrator permissions to deploy new services local administrator/root access on the computer where mysql enterprise is installed network and firewall allow outbound tcp port 5696 (default kmip port) from the computer running mysql enterprise to the {{ch}} , specified by fqdn (for example, cryptohub example com ) or cidr (for example, 10 0 0 0/24 ) tls inspection or ssl proxies can break mutual tls handshakes exempt the {{ch}} fqdn(s) from inspection configure the {{ch}} with a fqdn so the exemption applies other mysql enterprise