Supported platforms

Find out which platforms are supported by System Automation for Multiplatforms.

System Automation for Multiplatforms supports the following UNIX environments:
  • Linux® on System z®
  • Linux on System x
  • Linux on Power®
  • Ubuntu on System x5
  • Ubuntu on Power5
  • AIX®
System Automation for Multiplatforms runs on:
  • All IBM® Systems machines running Linux.
  • IBM System p machines running AIX.
System Automation for Multiplatforms runs under:
  • VMware on IBM System x (except Intel IA64-based servers) and any other 32-bit Intel-based server, AMD Opteron-based server (64-bit), or Intel EM64T-based server (64 bit). Live migration of systems using vMotion is supported (see VMware vMotion support).
  • RHEV-H version 4.3, KVM hypervisor version 5.4 or higher on all supported Linux distributions on IBM System x. Live migration of systems is not supported.
The following table lists the supported operating system versions.
www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/sys-auto-multi/
Table 1. Supported UNIX and Linux platforms of System Automation for Multiplatforms
  IBM System x1 IBM System z Power Systems Power Systems (Little Endian)
SUSE SLES 12 (64-bit)4 x x   x
SUSE SLES 15 (64-bit)7 x x   x
Red Hat RHEL 7 (64-bit) x4 x4 x4 x5
Red Hat RHEL 8 (64-bit)8 x x   x
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (64-bit)7 x     x
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (64-bit)8 x     x
AIX 7.1.5 x6
AIX 7.2.3 x7
AIX 7.2.4 x8
AIX 7.2.5 x9
All SP levels of above listed supported SUSE versions and Red Hat versions are also supported, unless one of the following notes indicates a more specific minimum requirement.
Note:
  1. System x means System x (except Intel IA64 based servers) and any other 32-bit Intel based server, or AMD Opteron based server (64-bit), or Intel EM64T based server (64 bit).
  2. zSystems version z15 and pSystems version p9 are supported.
  3. All future/new SP levels of Linux (SUSE & RHEL) are supported, if they are supported by the RSCT packages bundled (see “Prerequisites” on page 2 for more details) with this fix pack and are backward compatible with the SP level qualified with this fix pack.
  4. Platform support is introduced with fix pack 4.1.0.1.
  5. Platform support is introduced with fix pack 4.1.0.2.
  6. Platform support is introduced with fix pack 4.1.0.4.
  7. Platform support is introduced with fix pack 4.1.0.5.
  8. Platform support is introduced with fix pack 4.1.0.6.
  9. Platform support is introduced with fix pack 4.1.0.7.
For more information, see Installing on new operating systems on page 34.