IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment, Version 7.1.1.14

Server operating system requirements

Compatible operating system and architecture for Tivoli® Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment servers are shown in Table 1:

Table 1. Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment server operating systems
Operating system	Architecture
Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2	x86-32 and x86-64
Windows Server 2008	x86-32 and x86-64
Windows Server 2008 R2	x86-64
Windows Server 2012	x86-64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10	x86-32 and x86-64
SUSE LinuxEnterprise Server (SLES) 10	IBM® PowerPC® 64 (iSeries® and pSeries)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10	IBM System z®
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11	x86-32 and x86-64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11	IBM PowerPC 64 (iSeries and pSeries)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11	IBM System z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (RHEL) 5	x86-32 and x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (RHEL) 5	IBM PowerPC 64 (iSeries and pSeries)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (RHEL) 6	x86-32 and x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (RHEL) 6	IBM PowerPC 64 (iSeries and pSeries)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (RHEL) 6	IBM System z
IBM AIX® 6.1	IBM PowerPC 64 (iSeries and pSeries)
IBM AIX 7.1	IBM PowerPC 64 (iSeries and pSeries)
Solaris 10 Update 6	SPARC 64-bits
Solaris 11	SPARC 64-bits

Table 2 shows which databases can be used together with specific operating systems installed on the OS deployment server.

Table 2. Databases and server operating systems
Database	Operating systems
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 and SP4, 2008 SP1, 2008 R2 , 2012	Windows
Microsoft Access Driver	Windows
IBM DB2® Enterprise 9.1 FP4a, 9.5 FP3b, 9.7, 10.1	Windows and UNIX
Apache Derby 10.2.2 , 10.3.1.4, 10.5.5.1, 10.6.1.0, 10.7.1.1	UNIX
MySQL 4.1	UNIX
Oracle 10G, 10G R2, 11G R1, 11G R2	Windows and UNIX

Note:

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP4 database is partially supported. Only when the operating system is Windows, you can use the database through an ODBC connection.
When installing Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment on a UNIX computer with a MySQL database, use MySQL version 4.1 exclusively.
Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment does not support MySQL on IBM System z.