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WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus

An edition of WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus


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System requirements

Below is a list of the minimum software and hardware required for WebSphere® Enterprise Service Bus. Please see Detailed System Requirements on the right for more information.

 
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Detailed System Requirements for 6.1

Detailed System Requirements for 6.0.2


 
Operating SystemSoftwareHardware
AIXAIX on POWER

IBM AIX 5L 5.2 Maintenance package 5200-07 (32 and 64-bit kernel support) IBM AIX 5L 5.3 - (SP 5300-05-01) (32 and 64-bit kernel support) IBM AIX 6.1 (64-bit kernel support)
Any system from the IBM POWER family of processors,(minimum 1 GB physical memory; 2 GB recommended, CD-ROM drive)
HP-UXPA- RISC: HP-UX 11iv2 (11.23)

Itanium: HP-UX 11iv2 (11.23) (64bit kernel support) HP-UX 11iv3 (64bit kernel support)
HP-UX for PA-RISC - processor (Minimum 1 GB physical memory; 2 GB recommended, CD-ROM drive)

HP-UX for IA64 - Intel® Itanium 2 processor (minimum 1 GB physical memory; 2 GB recommended, CD-ROM drive)
i5/OS i5/OS V5R4IBM System i model 170 with processor feature 2385 – System I model 720 with processor feature 2062 -System I (iSeries) model 270 with processor feature 2250. System I model 820 with processor feature 2395. (Minimum 1 GB physical memory; 2 GB recommended
LinuxLinux on System i and Linux on System p:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.0 with Update 3, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0 with SP3, SLES 10
CD-ROM drive)
Linux on IntelX86: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0 AS (Update 4 or later) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0 ES (Update 4 or later) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0 WS (Update 4 or later) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 Advanced Platform Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 Desktop Note: Red Hat Linux WS and Desktop is only for application design, development, and testing. It is not supported for production.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0 SP2 or 3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0

Red Flag Data Center 5.0

X86 – 64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0 AS (Update 4 or later) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0 ES (Update 4 or later) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 Advanced Platform Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0 SP2 or 3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0

Power: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0 AS (Update 4 or later) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 Advanced Platform SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0 SP2 or 3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0
Linux on IBM eServer System i or System p/Open Power/JS20

For Linux x86 - Intel® Pentium at 500MHz or faster; Intel EM64T or AMD Opteron (32-bit kernel support only) (Minimum 1 GB physical memory; 2 GB recommended CD-ROM drive)
Linux on zSeriesRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0 AS (Update 4 or later) (64 bit kernel support only) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 Advanced Platform (64 bit kernel support only SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0 SP2 or 3 (64 bit kernel support only) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0 (64 bit kernel support only)For Power: System I models that support logical partitioning (LPAR) with minimum of 450 commercial workload (CPW) in the Linux partition. Minimum 16 GB available disk space for the OS/400 partition; 2.5 GB minimum for the Linux partition. IBM System p (pSeries), IBM OpenPower or IBM BladeCenter (Minimum 1 GB physical memory; 2 GB recommended, CD-ROM drive)
SolarisSPARC: Sun Solaris 9 with the latest Patch Cluster (32 and 64-bit kernel support) Sun Solaris 10 with the latest Patch Cluster (32-bit and 64-bit kernel support)

X86-64 Sun Solaris 10 with the latest Patch Cluster (64-bit kernel support)
For Power: System I models that support logical partitioning (LPAR) with minimum of 450 commercial workload (CPW) in the Linux partition. Minimum 16 GB available disk space for the OS/400 partition; 2.5 GB minimum for the Linux partition. IBM System p (pSeries), IBM OpenPower or IBM BladeCenter (Minimum 1 GB physical memory; 2 GB recommended, CD-ROM drive)

x86-64: AMD Opteron or Intel EM64T (64 bit kernel support), (Minimum 1 GB physical memory; 2 GB recommended, , CD-ROM drive)
Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista BusinessX86: Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition SP1 Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1 Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP1 Windows XP Professional SP2 Notes: Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista is supported only for application design, development, and testing. It is not supported for production.

X86-64: Windows Server 2003 R2, Datacenter x64 Edition Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard x64 Edition Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise x64 Edition
X86: Intel® Pentium at 500MHz or faster; Intel EM64T or AMD Opteron (32-bit kernel support only) (Minimum 1 GB physical memory; 2 GB recommended, CD-ROM drive)

x86-64: AMD Opteron or Intel EM64T (64 bit kernel support) (Minimum 1 GB physical memory; 2 GB recommended, CD-ROM drive)
z/OSz/OS and z/OS.e 1.7, or later (31 and 64 bit) Note: Supports zFS File SystemAny hardware that supports z/OS and z/OS.e V1R7