446 DS8800 Performance Monitoring and Tuning
12.1 Supported platforms and distributions
Linux tends to be the only operating system that is available for almost all hardware platforms.
For DS8000 attachment, IBM currently supports Linux on following platforms:
On x86-based servers in 32-bit and 64-bit mode
On System p® servers in 32-bit and 64-bit mode
On System z servers in 31-bit and 64-bit mode
As a guest that runs in VMware ESX
As a guest that runs in z/VM
IBM currently supports the following major Linux distributions:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, 5, and 6
Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise (SLES) 9, 10, and 11
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