Question & Answer
Question
Which operating system levels are supported by the IBM Spectrum Protect™ server and IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client?
Answer
Tip: The product now known as IBM Spectrum Protect™ was named IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager in releases earlier than Version 7.1.3. To learn more about the rebranding transition, see techdoc 1963634.
The following tables provide an overview. For the most current details about each component's operating system support, including hardware requirements, click on the operating system name in the Operating system column.
For system requirements for previous product versions, see techdoc 1994042. It provides information about the following releases:
- Tivoli Storage Manager server V6 and V7 releases
- Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive client V6 and V7 releases
| Server operating systems | Backup-archive client operating systems |
| AIX Linux x86_64 Linux on Power Systems (little endian) Linux zSeries Windows |
AIX HP-UX Itanium Linux on POWER Linux on POWER LE Linux x86_64 Linux zSeries Macintosh Solaris SPARC Solaris x86_64 Windows |
| Storage agent requirements | Operations Center requirements |
| For IBM Spectrum Protect storage agent requirements, click here | For IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center requirements, click here |
| Operating system Click on the name in the table for detailed requirements |
IBM Spectrum Protect server Version 8.1.0 and later supported operating systems |
|---|---|
| AIX |
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| Linux on POWER LE |
* IBM Spectrum Protect™ server support for Linux on Power (little endian) started with RHEL 7.3 on V8.1.1.000. Certain hardware requires minimal RHEL levels. For details click here. ** Does not support tape |
| Linux x86_64 |
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| Linux zSeries |
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| Windows | Server
Storage agent
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| Operating system Click on the name in the table for detailed requirements |
IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client Version 8.1 supported operating systems |
|---|---|
| AIX |
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| HP-UX Itanium |
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| Linux on POWER |
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| Linux on POWER LE |
Attention: The operating system kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions 7.8 and 8.2 is incompatible with the IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client journal- based backup kernel extension. If you are running an earlier version of RHEL with journal-based backups, and then you upgrade to RHEL 7.8 or later, or 8.2 or later, then journal-based backup no longer works. Until a compatible journal-based backup kernel extension is available, you can either defer your operating system upgrade, or change to regular incremental backup after the operating system upgrade. This issue is described by APAR IT33132
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| Linux x86_64 |
Note: These are the minimum levels of RHEL and SLES supported by the backup-archive client. Later maintenance levels and service packs are also supported.
Attention: The operating system kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions 7.8 and 8.2 is incompatible with the IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client journal- based backup kernel extension. If you are running an earlier version of RHEL with journal-based backups, and then you upgrade to RHEL 7.8 or later, or 8.2 or later, then journal-based backup no longer works. Until a compatible journal-based backup kernel extension is available, you can either defer your operating system upgrade, or change to regular incremental backup after the operating system upgrade. This issue is described by APAR IT33132
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| Linux zSeries |
Note: These are the minimum levels of RHEL and SLES supported by the backup-archive client. Later maintenance levels and service packs are also supported.
Attention: The operating system kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions 7.8 and 8.2 is incompatible with the IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client journal- based backup kernel extension. If you are running an earlier version of RHEL with journal-based backups, and then you upgrade to RHEL 7.8 or later, or 8.2 or later, then journal-based backup no longer works. Until a compatible journal-based backup kernel extension is available, you can either defer your operating system upgrade, or change to regular incremental backup after the operating system upgrade. This issue is described by APAR IT33132
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| Macintosh |
Note: Apple changes their Macintosh security model and requires that any software, which is running on their operating systems, is signed and notarized by Apple. Due of these changes, IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client supports following operating systems.
The following operating systems are supported by IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client V8.1.10 and later:
If you are using the following operating systems, use IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client V8.1.9:
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| Solaris SPARC |
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| Solaris x86_64 |
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| Windows | For all x64 editions (with Automated System Recovery (ASR) for Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) and non-EFI systems), see the limitations on the detailed requirements page.
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10 June 2020
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