Content Delivery operating system support history for microservices

SDL Web 8 Content Delivery has a number of changed operating system prerequisites compared to SDL Tridion 2011 SP1 HR2 or SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 HR1 for Server Role software components that are now microservices (either Web application-based microservices or standalone microservices). Note that all operating systems that are neither Windows-based nor Linux-based are deprecated.

In the following tables: N=not supported, Y=supported, D=Deprecated (support may be dropped in the following version release), Dr=Dropped (support is definitely dropped in the following version release), P=Probably dropped (support is probably dropped in the following version release):

Windows operating systems:

Microsoft Windows Operating system2011 SP120132013 SP1v8
Windows 2003 SP2 (x86)PNNN
Windows 2003 SP2 (x64)PNNN
Windows 2003 R2 SP2 (x86)PNNN
Windows 2003 R2 SP2 (x64)PNNN
Windows 2008 SP2 (x86)DrNNN
Windows 2008 SP2 (x64)DrNNN
Windows 2008 R2 (x64)DrNNN
Windows 2008 R2 SP1 (x64)YYYY
Windows Server 2012 (x64)NYDrN
Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)NNYY

Non-Windows operating systems:

VendorOperating system2011 SP120132013 SP1v8
HPUX 11i V2YYYD
HPUX 11i V3YYYD
IBMAIX 5.3DrNNN
IBMAIX 6.1YYYD
IBMAIX 7.1YYYD
RedhatEnterprise Linux 5.5DrNNN
RedhatEnterprise Linux 5.7YNNN
RedhatEnterprise Linux 5.9NYDrN
RedhatEnterprise Linux 5.10NNYN
RedhatEnterprise Linux 6.0DrNNN
RedhatEnterprise Linux 6.1YNNN
RedhatEnterprise Linux 6.4NYYN
RedhatEnterprise Linux 6.7NNNY
RedhatEnterprise Linux 7.1NNNY
SunSolaris 9YNNN
OracleSolaris 10 (formerly known as Sun Solaris 10)YYYD
OracleSolaris 11NYYD