If you are planning to install the IBM DB2 pureScale® Feature, different installation
prerequisites are required. See the Installing the DB2 pureScale Feature topic.
DB2 database products are supported on the following hardware:
v x86 (Intel Pentium, Intel Xeon, and AMD) 32-bit Intel and AMD processors
v x64 (64-bit AMD64 and Intel EM64T processors)
v POWER® (System i®, System p®, and POWER Systems that support Linux)
v System z®: System z196, System z10®, or System z9®
The minimum supported operating systems for Linux include:
v Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Update 6
v Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
v SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 Service Pack 3
v SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 Service Pack 1
v Ubuntu 10.04
For the latest information about supported Linux distributions, see
http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/linux/validate/.