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# Create a system type

The system types have multiple uses. For example:

- Sorting systems into families

- Defining stacks

- Defining operating systems for infrastructures

- Typing TDV infrastructure to allow provisioning

In the Technology menu of the main control panel, select Systems to access the system screen. When creating a System, you have to define its type.

A few built-in system types are defined:

- Operating System: this one is used to filter available operating systems in infrastructure definition page

- Database System

- Middleware

- Application Server

- Web Server

- Enterprise Service Bus

- Infrastructure Service

- Security Service

- Storage System

- Messaging System

- Event Management System

- Caching System

- File System

- Agent

- Datawarehouse

- Datamart

- Datalake

- ETL

- Hadoop-based Platform

- Registry/Directory

- Gateway

- Stack: this one is used to define [stacks]./manage_systems.html)

- Data Virtualization (TIBCO® Data Virtualization for instance)

- Cloud Platform

- Spreadsheet

- Master Data Management

- ERP

- Business Intelligence

- Undefined

## Create a new system type

You can create other system types if built-in types are not sufficient for your usage.

On system creation/update page, on system type selection you can create a new system type

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