Support for virtualization software

This release is tested with a number of virtualized server products.

This release has been tested on current versions of the following virtualization software:
Table 1. Virtualization software tested
Vendor Architecture Server virtualization Version
IBM® IBM Z® PR/SM z13, z11, z196, zEC12
IBM IBM Z z/VM® 6.1, 6.2
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IBM POWER® PowerVM® Hypervisor Power® 6, Power 7, Power 8
VMware x86-64 VMware ESX and ESXi Server 5.5, 6.0
Microsoft x86-64 Hyper-V Server 2012
Docker, Inc x86-64 Docker V1.6 or later (see note)
Note: IBM supports all versions of the SDK that run in Docker containers, provided that the Docker images are based on supported operating systems. To find out which operating systems are supported for the IBM SDK, see Supported environments .