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Documentation for the IBM Storage Protect multisite disk solution includes installation and configuration tasks for the following operating systems. You must meet the minimum software requirements that are listed.

AIX systems

Type of software Minimum software requirements
Operating system
IBM AIX 7.2
  • AIX 7.2 TL4 with SP3, TL5 with SP2, or later AIX 7.2 levels
IBM AIX 7.3
  • AIX 7.3. TL0 with SP1 or later AIX 7.3 levels

For more information about operating system requirements, see the IBM Storage Protect installation information.
Gunzip utility The gunzip utility must be available on your system before you install or upgrade the IBM Storage Protect server. Ensure that the gunzip utility is installed and the path to it is set in the PATH environment variable.
File system type JFS2 file systems

AIX systems can cache a large amount of file system data, which can reduce memory that is required for server and IBM Db2 processes. To avoid paging with the AIX server, use the rbrw mount option for the JFS2 file system. Less memory is used for the file system cache and more is available for IBM Storage Protect.

Do not use the file system mount options, Concurrent I/O (CIO), and Direct I/O (DIO), for file systems that contain the IBM Storage Protect database, logs, or storage pool volumes. These options can cause performance degradation of many server operations. IBM Storage Protect and Db2 can still use DIO where it is beneficial to do so, but IBM Storage Protect does not require the mount options to selectively take advantage of these techniques.
Other software Korn Shell (ksh)

Linux systems

Type of software Minimum software requirements
Operating system

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 9.1 or later RHEL 9 levels

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 or later RHEL 8 levels

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 or later RHEL 7 levels

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15, SP1 or later SLES 15 levels

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SP4 or later SLES 12 levels

Ubuntu Server LTS 18.04 or later Ubuntu Server LTS 18.04 levels

Ubuntu Server LTS 20.04 or later Ubuntu Server LTS 20.04 levels
Note:
  • The list of Linux versions supported only applies to xLinux and Linux on Power Systems. For Linux on System z it is limited to the following levels:
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 or later RHEL 7 levels
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 or later RHEL 8 levels
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SP4 or later SLES 12 levels
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15, SP5 or later SLES 15 levels
  • Recommended upgrade sequence: The upgrade sequence for the existing IBM Storage Protect server 8.1.25 or older version, which is deployed on SLES 12 on System z®, must be in the following sequence:
    1. Upgrade the IBM Storage Protect server to version 8.1.26 or a later version on SLES 12 on System z.
    2. Upgrade SLES 12 to SLES 15.
Libraries GNU C® libraries, Version 2.3.3-98.38 or later that is installed on the IBM Storage Protect system.
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers:
  • libaio
  • libstdc++.so.6 (32-bit and 64-bit packages are required)
  • numactl.x86_64
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 8), also add this library:
  • libnuma.so.1
For SUSE Linux Enterprise Servers:
  • libaio
  • libstdc++.so.6 at version 4.3 or later (32-bit and 64-bit packages are required)
  • libnuma.so.1
For Ubuntu LTS Servers:
  • libaio1
  • libnuma.so.1
For RHEL 9 on Power®
  • libxcrypt-compat ksh
For RHEL 9 on Z
  • ksh, elfutils-libelf-devel, patch, kernel-devel, m4, libxcrypt-compat
File system type Format database-related file systems with ext3 or ext4.

For storage pool-related file systems, use XFS.
Other software Korn Shell (ksh)

Windows systems

Type of software Minimum software requirements
Operating system

Microsoft Windows Server 2019

Microsoft Windows Server 2016
File system type NTFS
Other software

Windows 2019 or Windows 2016 with .NET Framework 3.5 is installed and enabled.

The following User Account Control policies must be disabled:
  • User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account
  • User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode