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IDS Supported Environments for Virtualization

IBM Informix Dynamic Server only supports the environments listed on this page. This page will be updated as new environments become validated.

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Hardware Embedded Full Virtualization Environments

IDS supports hypervisors fully embedded in hardware/firmware as long as operating system requirements are met. Some examples are systems equipped with PowerVM, VMware ESX 3i or Hitachi Virtage.

*Note: Any enhancements in hypervisor function that come in the form of separate software are not included in the definition of "Hardware Embedded". See the below categories for software virtualization technologies that are currently supported.

IDS Supported Virtualization Environments for x86 and x64 Architectures

Hypervisor	Architecture	Minimum Guest OS (Windows)	Minimum Guest OS (Linux)	Minimun IDS Level
VMware ESX 3.0.1 and higher	x86/x64 System listed on ESX HCL	Any Microsoft Windows level supported by both IDS and ESX	Any Linux distribution supported by both IDS and ESX	IDS 11.50 (32 or 64 bit)
*Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2 Xen HVM	x64 System with: INTEL-VT or AMD-V	Not Supported	RHEL 5.2 64bit	IDS 11.50 *64bit only
*SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP2 Xen HVM	x64 System with: INTEL-VT or AMD-V	Not Supported	SLES 10 SP2 64bit	IDS 11.50 *64bit only

* Important restrictions regarding RHEL 5.2 and SLES 10 SP2 Xen Environments:

Guest VMs must be HVM mode and 64bit Linux. Paravirtual guests are not supported by IDS at this time.
Guest OS distro must be within the same major version as the Host OS distro.
Disk I/O access must be through the 'phy:' mechanism which is used to export devices or logical volumes to the guest (therefore, no file based devices). The mechanism can be set in your xen guest's configuration file. Other access modes such as 'file:' and 'tap:aio:' are not supported by IDS at this time.
Disk devices exported to guest VMs must have write caching disabled using 'hdparm -W0 (device name)'.
Live Migration is not supported by IDS at this time.

IDS Supported Full Virtualization Environments for non-x86 Platforms

Hypervisor	Architecture	Minimum Guest OS	Minimun IDS Level
PowerVM & VIOS	IBM System p	AIX 5.3 TL05 AIX 6.1 RHEL 5 SLES 10 SP1	IDS 11.50
z/VM 5.2 z/VM 5.3	IBM System z	SLES 9 SP3 SLES 10 SP1 RHEL 4 U4 RHEL 5(64bit only)	IDS 11.50

IDS Supported OS Virtualization Environments for x86 and x64 Platforms

Technology	Operating System	Minimun IDS Level
*Solaris Zones	Solaris 10 (x64)	IDS 10, 11.10, 11.50 (64 Bit)

IDS Supported OS Virtualization Environments for non-x86 Platforms

Technology	Operating System	Minimun IDS Level
*AIX System Workload Partitions (WPARS)	AIX 6.1	IDS 11.50
*Solaris Zones	Solaris 10	IDS 7.31, 9.4, 11.10, 11.50
HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE)	HP-UX 11.23, HP-UX 11.31	IDS 11.50
HP Virtual Partitions (vPars)	HP-UX 11.11, HP-UX 11.23, HP-UX 11.31	IDS 11.50
HP Integrity Virtual Machines (HPVM)	HP-UX 11.23, HP-UX 11.31	IDS 11.50

* Important restrictions regarding WPARs and Zones:
* WPAR mobility is not supported by IDS at this time.

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