This means that high-availability and load balancing the Appian engines are not possible in Windows environments.ĭue to the way file names and file paths are calculated for documents stored in Appian, all servers hosting the same Appian installation must use the same type of operating system. Additionally, running more than one instance of the Appian engines and the Internal Messaging Service (Kafka and Zookeeper) is not a supported configuration in Windows environments. While Windows environments are fully supported, Appian recommends running on Linux if possible as we typically observe better performance and stability in Linux environments. Desktop version of Windows are only supported for local development environments. Only server versions of Windows are supported for production environments. Linux hosts must have a minimum kernel version of 2.6.23.
Only 64-bit operating systems running on x86-64 CPU architecture (sometimes referred to as 圆4) are supported. This table lists the supported platforms for servers that host Appian. This article details the minimum requirements your system must meet to run Appian.
