This section includes the system requirements to install the IBM® Z APM
Connect Distributed Gateway in a Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform or Kubernetes cluster on x86 or s390x Linux.
Table 1. Linux distributions support or installation in a cluster
| |
Versions |
CPU architectures |
| SUSE |
V15 or later |
x86_64 / amd64 |
| Ubuntu |
V20 or later |
x86_64 / amd64 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) |
V8 or later |
|
Table 2. Supported product versions
| Kubernetes |
V1.25 or later |
| Red Hat OpenShift |
V4.14 or later |
| (Red Hat OpenShift) Helm |
V3.1 or higher |
Table 3. Resource requirements for installation in a
cluster
| |
Minimum requirements |
Recommended for higher performance |
| CPU cores |
at least 24 cores, or 8 cores per node, whichever is higher |
48 cores or 8 cores per node, whichever is higher |
| Memory size |
at least 16 GB (14.9GiB) ram, or 8 GB (7.45GiB) per node, whichever is higher |
100 GB (93.3GiB) or 16 GB per node, whichever is higher |