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WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment - Edge Components

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Abstract

The table provides the system requirement for IBM WebSphere Application Server v9.0 Network Deployment - Edge Components. Edge components include Caching Proxy, Content-Based Routing, and the Load Balancer for IPV4 and IPV6.


Content

For V9R0, system requirements for the Edge Components are exclusively maintained in the following tables.

For earlier releases, review this information.

Review the minimum product levels for IBM® WebSphere Application Server Edge components. Because other products frequently ship fixes, updates, and new releases, it is not possible to test every configuration. In general, you can install and run with updates to supported products if those updates are compatible with later version. Refer to support article WebSphere Application Server has grown and so have your requirements for support for configurations that are not included (or marked "EOS") in the following list.

Supported Configurations

Edge Components: Caching Proxy

Caching Proxy is 64-bit toleration. Caching Proxy does not take full advantage of the extra space and is only able to address memory that fits in the 32-bit address space.

Content-Based Routing is supported on the same operating systems as Caching Proxy.

AIX®

Operating System Hardware
AIX 7.2 POWER System - Big Endian

Linux®

Operating System
IBM Z
POWER System
  (Big Endian)
x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 7
EOS
EOS
X
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 8
(Not supported) [note 1] [note 2]
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12
X
X
X
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15
Not supported
X
X
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Note - Requires "rpm" package
EOS
EOS
EOS
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Note - Requires "rpm" package
EOS
EOS
EOS
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
(Not supported) [note 2]
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
(Not supported) [note 2]
  

Windows®

Operating System
Windows Server 2012 Datacenter, Essentials, Standard EOS
Windows Server 2016 Datacenter, Essentials, Standard X
Windows Server 2019 Datacenter, Essentials, Standard
(Not supported) [note 2]		 None
Windows Server 2022 Datacenter, Essentials, Standard
(Not supported) [note 2]		 None

Notes:
[1] Edge Caching Proxy is not supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 (and later) due to the removal of compat-libstdc++-33.
[2]Caching Proxy is not supported on this operating system (and future)

Edge Components: Load Balancer for IPV4 and IPV6

The Load Balancer component is a 64-bit application and takes advantage of the full address space of 64-bit hardware.

AIX®

Operating System Hardware
AIX 7.2 POWER System - Big Endian
AIX 7.3
Requires SP01 BD2148		 POWER System - Big Endian
 


Linux®

Operating System
IBM Z
POWER System
  Big Endian
POWER System
  Little Endian
x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 7
EOS
EOS
EOS
X
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 8
X
X
X
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 9
X
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12
X
X
X
X
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15
X
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
EOS
EOS
EOS
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
EOS
EOS
EOS
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
X
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
X

Windows®

Operating System
Windows Server 2012 Datacenter, Essentials, Standard
[note 2]		 X
Windows Server 2016 Datacenter, Essentials, Standard [note 1]
(Not supported)		 None
Windows Server 2019 Datacenter, Essentials, Standard [note 1]
(Not supported)		 None
Windows Server 2022 Datacenter, Essentials, Standard [note 1]
(Not supported)		 None
 

Notes:
[1] The Load Balancer Dispatcher component is not supported on this operating system.
[2] The Load Balancer Dispatcher component is stabilized at this level of the operating system and future levels are not supported.

If installation is planned on virtual operating systems, review information contained in Virtualization Support for Load Balancer.

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Modified date:
27 March 2024

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