Hardware and software requirements
Review the following information to understand the hardware and software requirements for Engineering Lifecycle Management on Hybrid Cloud.
Supported Engineering Lifecycle Management versions
Engineering Lifecycle Management on Hybrid Cloud supports the Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.1 ifix_002 and later. For more information, see Compatibility report.
Customer-managed dependencies
The following table lists the dependencies for Engineering Lifecycle Management on Hybrid Cloud that are managed by the customer.
| Dependency | Additional information |
|---|---|
| Databases | Engineering Lifecycle Management on Hybrid Cloud requires a customer-managed database. The supported databases are Db2® and Oracle. |
| Engineering Lifecycle Management licenses | You must manage the Engineering Lifecycle Management licenses for Engineering Lifecycle Management on Hybrid Cloud. To install the licenses for the Engineering Lifecycle Management instance, see Installing the Engineering Lifecycle Management licenses and fetching the Jazz Team Server hostname. |
| Identity management | Engineering Lifecycle Management on Hybrid Cloud supports Apache Directory Server and Microsoft Active Directory for identity management. To know the versions that are supported by Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.1 release, see the system requirements for ELM 7.1 release. |
| Web browsers | To know the web browsers that are supported by Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.1 release, see the system requirements for ELM 7.1 release. |
Support statement for IBM containers that are deployed by Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
IBM® containers are built to best deploy on Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform. This combination provides an end-to-end enterprise-grade Kubernetes-based container orchestration platform for a complete lifecycle management of the containers and operators. The product containers and deployment strategy are certified by IBM to be production ready, enterprise-grade, resilient, secure and compliant, and scalable in any public and private cloud by using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. The IBM Technical Support fully supports this delivery model across the complete lifecycle management of IBM containers, IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Operator based orchestration, and any deployment pattern in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
Support statement for IBM containers deployed on any Kubernetes platform
For users who choose to deploy the IBM containers on any container orchestration tools (such as Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Microsoft AKS, or Pivotal Cloud Foundry) on public cloud such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud, or in their private cloud by using native Kubernetes, the IBM Technical Support is limited to the base software, containers, IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Operator, upgrades, deployment and continuous delivery updates. The non-conformant characteristics of such tools hinder the ability to assist users and may be outside of the scope of IBM Technical Support.
Deprecation policy for containers images
The Engineering Lifecycle Management container images are supported on corresponding in-support container platform versions.