# System Requirements for Microsoft Azure Database for MySQL

To back up and restore MySQL data on an Azure application, verify that your environment has the required software and a firewall.

## Software Requirements

- Packages that are required on access nodes:

  - Virtual Server Agent

  - MySQL Agent

- Access nodes that you run backup and restore operations on must have one of the following operating systems:

  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x, 8.x, 7.x

  - CentOS 9.x, 8.x, 7.x

  - Rocky Linux 8.x, 9.x

  - Oracle Linux 8.x, 9.x

  - Windows 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012

Note

If you have network configuration enabled on the access nodes, before you deploy the Linux proxy, configure a firewall on the cloud proxy and on-premises. For more information, see Configuring a Firewall to Install the Virtual Server Agent on a Cloud VM or Instance.

## Supported MySQL Versions

- MySQL 8.4.x

- MySQL 8.0.x

## SSL and TLS Support

SSL is supported for MySQL version 5.7 and later. The supported TLS versions to create Azure SSL encrypted MySQL instances are TLS 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2.

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