The IBM Software Product Compatibility Reports (SPCR) pages are a complete source of
hardware requirements, supported operating systems, prerequisites and optional supported software,
with component-level details and operating system restrictions. This topic provides direct links to
reports for Db2 12.1 releases.
Hardware embedded full virtualization and Db2
12.1
Db2®
supports hypervisors fully embedded in hardware and firmware when operating system requirements are
met. Some examples are systems equipped with Power Hypervisor, 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".
Db2
12.1
(non-pureScale) runs on any operating system (OS) that is virtualized by any virtualization
technology. Hypervisors in use must run a supported enterprise OS (For example, KVM with RHEL
Enterprise support. KVM running CentOS is not recommended).
OS virtualization that supports
Db2
12.1 is
available to enterprise-ready and licensed hypervisors that have the write-thru feature enabled.
Note: This statement does not apply to Db2
pureScale® clusters in
any Db2
releases. For a detailed list of supported virtualization for Db2 pureScale, refer to the reports
for each release.
If IBM believes that an issue is specific to a virtualization technology
(such as performance or communication with peripheral and hardware components), IBM might require
that the customer reproduce the issue in a non-virtualized configuration. Due to the nature of
virtualization technologies, IBM cannot guarantee levels of performance that are impacted by a
customer’s virtualized deployment. Similarly, IBM cannot guarantee resolutions to issues that are
caused by a customer’s virtualized deployment.
For system requirements for previous versions of Db2, see the IBM Support page, System requirements for IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and
Windows.
Db2
12.1.4
Table 1. Db2 12.1.4 system
requirements
| Db2 Edition |
Requirements by platform |
Requirements by component |
Related requirements |
Virtualization requirements |
| AI Advanced and Advanced |
|
|
|
Supported Hypervisors |
| AI Standard and Standard |
|
|
|
Supported Hypervisors |
Db2
12.1.3
Table 2. Db2 12.1.3 system
requirements
| Db2 Edition |
Requirements by platform |
Requirements by component |
Related requirements |
Virtualization requirements |
| Advanced |
|
|
|
Supported Hypervisors |
| Starter |
|
|
|
NA |
| Standard |
|
|
|
NA |
Db2
12.1.2
Table 3. Db2 12.1.2 system
requirements
| Db2 Edition |
Requirements by platform |
Requirements by component |
Related requirements |
Virtualization requirements |
| Advanced |
|
|
|
Supported Hypervisors |
| Starter |
|
|
|
NA |
| Standard |
|
|
|
NA |
Db2
12.1.1
Table 4. Db2 12.1.1 system
requirements
| Db2 Edition |
Requirements by platform |
Requirements by component |
Related requirements |
Virtualization requirements |
| Advanced |
|
|
|
Supported Hypervisors |
| Starter |
|
|
|
NA |
| Standard |
|
|
|
NA |
Db2
12.1
Table 5. Db2 12.1 system
requirements
| Db2 Edition |
Requirements by platform |
Requirements by component |
Related requirements |
Virtualization requirements |
| Advanced |
|
|
|
Supported Hypervisors |
| Starter |
|
|
|
NA |
| Standard |
|
|
|
Supported Hypervisors |