Supported software

IBM® Spectrum Cluster Foundation Community Edition Version 4.2.2 supports various operating systems.

IBM Spectrum Cluster Foundation Community Edition supports the following operating systems on the management node and compute nodes.

Table 1. Cross-distribution cluster support for IBM Spectrum Cluster Foundation Community Edition Version 4.2.2
Management Node Compute Node
x86 Power® Little Endian Power Big Endian x86 Power Little Endian Power Big Endian
PowerNV PowerKVM VM PowerNV PowerKVM VM
RHEL 7.2 - - - RHEL 7.2, 7.1, 7.0, 6.7

RHEL for HPC Compute Node 6.7

CentOS 6.7

 Ubuntu 14.04.041, RHEL 7.21 Ubuntu 14.04.041, RHEL 7.21 RHEL 7.21
RHEL 6.8 - - - RHEL 6.8, RHEL 6.7, CentOS 6.7, RHEL for HPC Compute Node 6.7 - - -
SLES 12 - - - SLES 12 - - -
SLES 11.3 - - - SLES 11.3 - - -
- - - RHEL 7.2 - Ubuntu 14.04.041, RHEL 7.21 Ubuntu 14.04.041, RHEL 7.21 RHEL 7.2
CentOS 7.2 - - - CentOS 7.2, 7.1 - - -
CentOS 6.8 - - - CentOS 6.8, 6.7 - - -
- - RHEL 7.2 - - RHEL 7.2 RHEL 7.2 -
- - Ubuntu 14.04.04 - - Ubuntu 14.04.04 Ubuntu 14.04.04 -
  • 1 Use the pcm-crossdistro-tool command to cross-provision compute nodes of a different architecture than the management node. Cross-architecture provisioning requires that you have the corresponding IBM Spectrum Cluster Foundation Community Edition ISO. For more information, refer to Cross-provisioning nodes.
Table 2. Software support for LSF offerings including IBM Spectrum LSF® Community Edition 10.1, eIBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Workgroups 10.1, and IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for HPC 10.1
x86 Management Node Power Little Endian (PowerNV) Management Node x86 Compute Node Power Little Endian (PowerNV) Compute Node
RHEL 7.2 - RHEL 7.2 -
SLES 11.3 - SLES 11.3 -
CentOS 7.2 - CentOS 7.2 -
- RHEL 7.1 - RHEL 7.1

Feature support

Table 3. Feature and software support for IBM Spectrum Cluster Foundation Community Edition
Feature Product Product Version Notes
IBM Spectrum Scale monitoring and script templates IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2.1  
User Account Management LDAP openldap-2.4.39-6.el7 LDAP is not supported on SLES 12 or Ubuntu compute nodes.
PowerKVM 3.1 provisioning PowerKVM 3.1 IBM PowerKVM 3.1.0 Service 2 Build 68.0  

Shared file systems for high availability support

The following share file systems are supported in a IBM Spectrum Cluster Foundation Community Edition 4.2.2 high availability environment.
Shared File System Version
NFS NFSv3, NFSv4
IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2.1