Infrastructure options

The following tables specify the supported installation methods and devices depending on the chosen infrastructure for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Z and IBM® LinuxONE.

Installation methods

The following table shows the supported installation methods depending on the virtualization infrastructure.

Table 1. Installation methods
  Installation methods Infrastructure
  Full manual installation Assisted Installer Agent-based Installer Hosted Control Planes Multi-Architecture Compute
LPAR Supported Supported PXE Supported PXE Supported PXE Supported
z/VM Supported Supported PXE Supported PXE Supported PXE Supported
KVM Supported Supported PXE/ISO Supported PXE/ISO Supported PXE/ISO Supported
zCX Supported Not Supported Not Supported Not Supported Supported

Device support per infrastructure

The following table shows the supported device types depending on the virtualization infrastructure.

Table 2. Supported device types
Device type LPAR z/VM KVM zCX
DASD Supported Supported Supported VirtIO-blk Not supported
FCP Supported Supported Supported VirtIO-blk Not supported
Minidisk Not supported Supported Not supported Not supported
NVMe Supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
VSAM Not supported Not supported Not supported Supported
Network
OSA Supported Supported Supported VirtIO-Net Not supported
RoCE Supported Supported Supported VirtIO-Net Not supported
VSWITCH Not supported Supported Not supported Not supported
HiperSockets Supported Supported Supported Not supported
Linux Bridge Not supported Not supported Supported Not supported
zCX network Not supported Not supported Not supported Supported