Are there any specific windows version requirements for running ANSYS software on a windows server?

- August 23, 2021 at 5:09 pm
  
  redrout
  Subscriber
  
  My research group is looking to use a server machine to perform some ANSYS CFX simulations, but the machine has Microsoft Server 2008 R2 as the operating system, which is incompatible with ANSYS 2021 R2 due to a .NET framework conflict (.NET framework 4.7 and above not supported by the OS). Is it possible to install ANSYS in this way on a server machine? Will we need to update the server OS to a more recent version?
  
  Thank you for any information
- August 26, 2021 at 8:24 pm
  
  Matt Madore
  Forum Moderator
  
  Yes this is possible. Please refer to the supported platforms page.
  https://www.ansys.com/it-solutions/platform-support