Supported Operating Systems

SSH Tectia client/server solution products can be installed on the following operating systems.

Table 6.1. Supported operating systems per SSH Tectia product

Operating System	Client	ConnectSecure	Server	Server for z/Linux¹	Server for z/OS¹
HP-UX (PA-RISC)	11i v1, 11i v2, 11i v3	11i v1, 11i v2, 11i v3	11i v1, 11i v2, 11i v3
HP-UX (IA-64)	11i v2, 11i v3	11i v2, 11i v3	11i v2, 11i v3
IBM AIX (POWER)	5.3, 6.1	5.3, 6.1²	5.3, 6.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (x86 and x86-64)	4, 5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5	4, 5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4	4, 5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
Sun Solaris (SPARC)	9, 10	9, 10	9, 10
Sun Solaris (x86-64)	10	10	10
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Desktop (x86 and x86-64)	10	10	10
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (x86)	9, 10, 11	9, 10, 11	9, 10, 11
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (x86-64)	10, 11	10, 11	10, 11
Microsoft Windows (x86)	XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, 7	XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, 7	XP, Server 2003, Server 2008, 7
Microsoft Windows (x64)	Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, 7	Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, 7	Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, 7
VMware ESX Server³	3.5		3.5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (64-bit) ⁴				5.1
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server for IBM System z (64-bit) ⁴				9, 10
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server for IBM System z (31-bit)				9
IBM z/OS (zSeries)					1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12

¹ Including the client components

² SSH Tectia ConnectSecure requires reconfiguring the RBAC mode on AIX 6.1.

³ SSH Tectia products can be installed directly on the server virtualization layer.

⁴ Requires the 31-bit compatibility library libc.so.6.

	Note
	Keep the operating system always fully patched, according to recommendations by the operating system vendor. The minimum patch levels required by SSH Tectia products are mentioned in the SSH Tectia product-specific installation instructions.