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Hardware and Software Requirements

Mule Runtime Engine versions 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7 reached End of Life on or before January 25, 2020. For more information, contact your Customer Success Manager to determine how you can migrate to the latest Mule version.

This page lists the hardware, operating systems, Java, and other requirements to run MuleSoft products.

For Hardware and Software requirements of Anypoint Studio, MuleSoft’s IDE for building integration applications, see Studio Hardware and Software Requirements.

Mule Runtime

Mule Hardware Requirements

This hardware requirements list is a recommendation and a starting point. Different applications have different requirements for the amount of latency (and thus raw CPU power) or the size and number of simultaneous messages that applications need to process (which in turn determines the amount of RAM Mule needs).

  • 2GHz CPU or 1 virtual CPU in virtualized environments

  • 1GB of RAM

  • 4GB of storage

Mule Software Requirements

Because the only mandatory requirement for Mule is Java, Mule should also run on any later versions of the tested operating systems in the above list, as well as any other operating systems supported by the JREs.

After installing a JRE or JDK, install the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) 7 unlimited strength jurisdiction policy files.
Software Requirement

Java Runtime Environments

Operating Systems

Mule validates against the following operating systems:

  • MacOS 10.10.0

  • HP-UX 11i V3

  • AIX 7.1

  • Windows 2012 R2 Server

  • Windows 8.1

  • Solaris 11.2

  • RHEL 7.0

  • Ubuntu Server 14.04

  • Ubuntu Server 15.04

  • Amazon Linux

Application Servers

Mule validates against the following application servers:

  • Apache Tomcat 7

  • Apache Tomcat 8

  • Oracle WebLogic 12c

  • JBoss Enterprise 6.1

  • JBoss Community 8

  • IBM Websphere 8

  • Eclipse Jetty 8

  • Eclipse Jetty 9

Database Servers

The following databases are compatible with Mule:

  • Oracle Database 11g

  • MySQL 5.5

  • IBM DB2 10.1

  • PostgreSQL 9

  • Derby 10

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014

API Gateway Runtime

API Gateway Runtime Hardware Requirements

This hardware requirements list is a recommendation and a starting point. Different applications have different requirements for the amount of latency (and thus raw CPU power) or the size and number of simultaneous messages that applications need to process (which in turn determines the amount of RAM Mule needs).

  • 2GHz, dual-core CPU, or 2 virtual CPUs in virtualized environments

  • 2GB of RAM

  • 4GB of storage

API Gateway Runtime Software Requirements

Because the only mandatory requirement for the API Gateway Runtime is Java, the API Gateway should also run on any later versions of the tested operating systems in the above list, as well as any other operating systems supported by the JRE.

After installing a JRE or JDK, install the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) 7 unlimited strength jurisdiction policy files.
Software Requirement

Java Runtime Environments

  • API Gateway Runtime 1.3.n and older: Oracle JRE 1.7

  • API Gateway Runtime 2.0.n and newer:

Operating Systems

API Gateway Runtime validates against the following operating systems.

API Gateway Runtime 2.0.n and newer:

  • Mac OS 10.10.0

  • HP-UX 11i V3

  • AIX 7.1

  • Windows 2012 R2 Server

  • Windows 8.1

  • Solaris 11.2

  • RHEL 7

  • Ubuntu Server 14.0.4

  • Amazon Linux

API Gateway Runtime 1.3.n and older:

The operating systems MuleSoft used to validate the current release are:

  • Windows (32- and 64-bit) 2003, 2008, Windows 7, Windows 2012

  • Mac OS 10.7, 10.8

  • Linux RHEL (64-bit) 5.3, 6.1

  • Ubuntu Server 12.04 (64-bit) [1]

  • Solaris OS 10

  • HP-UX 11i V3

  • AIX V7.1

1. If you use SSL, MuleSoft recommends installing Ubuntu Server 12.14 (64-bit) and newer instead of 12.04.

DevKit Versions

Any version of Anypoint DevKit from 3.5 and newer is compatible with all Mule versions 3.5 and newer. Anypoint DevKit version numbering does not correspond to Mule versions. For example, DevKit 3.8 is compatible with Mule versions 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8.

We recommend using the latest version of Mule with DevKit to get the latest fixes and improvements.

Mule Management Console (MMC)

After installing a JRE or JDK, install the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) 7 unlimited strength jurisdiction policy files.
Hardware Requirements: [2]

  • 2GHz CPU

  • 4 GB of RAM

  • 10 GB of storage

Software Requirements:

Java Runtime Environments

Web Application Servers

  • JBoss 6 or 6.1

  • Apache Tomcat 6.x or 7.x

  • WebSphere Application Server 7.0 and 8.0

  • Oracle WebLogic 12.1

  • Oracle 12c (in MMC 3.7.3 and newer)

Operating Systems

MMC runs the operating systems supported by the above web application servers.

Compatible MMC Databases for Persisting Data

Run MMC as a Web Application

Mule Management Console should be run as a web application deployed on a web container such as JBoss or Tomcat, and NOT as a Mule application. We recommend configuring the web application server’s memory areas with the following minimum sizes:

  • Heap: 2GB (3GB recommended)

  • Permanent Generation: 512MB

See Also

2. We strongly recommend running MMC on a separate server from the hardware that runs Mule Runtime.