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Environment

An Environment represents a physical or virtual infrastructure (host or cluster) where one or more databases run.

Types of Environments​

  • Single Host — A standalone server.
  • Oracle Cluster — Oracle RAC.
  • Distributed Database Cluster — For multi-node databases like Couchbase.

Source vs Target​

  • Source Environment — Where live databases run.
  • Target Environment — Where database clones are deployed.

Environment Lifecycle​

  1. Add Environment
    • Provide IP, SSH credentials, and type.
    • XLServer automatically discovers all running databases.
  2. Refresh Environment
    • Re-scan to detect new databases.
  3. Remove Environment
    • Deletes the environment; linked databases must be handled first.

Environments are project-scoped — they belong to exactly one project for isolation.

Supported Host Operating Systems​

XLServer currently supports Linux environments only:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Oracle Linux
  • CentOS
  • Rocky Linux
  • Other Red Hat family distributions

Supported versions: from 6.x up to the latest 10.x.

tip

Windows hosts are not supported in this release.
Make sure that any environment you plan to register runs on one of the supported Linux distributions.