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Supported IaaS, hypervisors, and environments
Supported IaaS
IBM Cloud Private is certified on several Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers.
| IaaS | Versions |
|---|---|
| Azure | |
| VMware vCenter | 6.0, 6.5, 6.7 |
| OpenStack | Mitaka and later |
| Hyper-V | Windows 2016 Server LTS (Version 1607), Windows 2019 Server LTS (Version 1809), Windows 10 (Version 1703) |
| Nutanix AHV(X86) | 20170830.94 (AOS 5.5.2) |
| Nutanix AHV(IBM PowerPC) | 20170331.78 (AOS 5.2.1.1,5.10.0.7) and later |
| IBM PowerVC | 1.4.1 and later |
Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry demonstrated portability across multiple IaaS providers in the community. While IBM Cloud Private is certified for on premises installations on VMware, OpenStack, and bare metal, you can install it on other IaaS systems. For additional information, contact your sales representative.
Notes for Hyper-V
- For disk performance, virtual machine snapshots affect the Disk IO when stored on the same environment. To have a stable cluster performance, store the snapshot on an external drive and remove it from the host.
- For more information about memory size accounting and other cluster resources, see Virtualization Documentation
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Supported hypervisors
IBM Cloud Private is certified on KVM, ESX, Nutanix Acropolis, IBM PowerVM, and IBM z/VM hypervisors.
Supported environments
IBM Cloud Private can run on other environments, with other products installed. For details see Supported environments.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Azure
- IBM Cloud
- OpenShift
IBM Edge Computing for Servers
If you are planning to use the IBM Edge Computing for Servers, additional IaaS and environments are supported. For more information, see Installing IBM Edge Computing for Servers.