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.
| 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.
| 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 |