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 system | 2011 SP1 | 2013 | 2013 SP1 | v8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows 2003 SP2 (x86) | P | N | N | N |
| Windows 2003 SP2 (x64) | P | N | N | N |
| Windows 2003 R2 SP2 (x86) | P | N | N | N |
| Windows 2003 R2 SP2 (x64) | P | N | N | N |
| Windows 2008 SP2 (x86) | Dr | N | N | N |
| Windows 2008 SP2 (x64) | Dr | N | N | N |
| Windows 2008 R2 (x64) | Dr | N | N | N |
| Windows 2008 R2 SP1 (x64) | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Windows Server 2012 (x64) | N | Y | Dr | N |
| Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64) | N | N | Y | Y |
Non-Windows operating systems:
| Vendor | Operating system | 2011 SP1 | 2013 | 2013 SP1 | v8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP | UX 11i V2 | Y | Y | Y | D |
| HP | UX 11i V3 | Y | Y | Y | D |
| IBM | AIX 5.3 | Dr | N | N | N |
| IBM | AIX 6.1 | Y | Y | Y | D |
| IBM | AIX 7.1 | Y | Y | Y | D |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux 5.5 | Dr | N | N | N |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux 5.7 | Y | N | N | N |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux 5.9 | N | Y | Dr | N |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux 5.10 | N | N | Y | N |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux 6.0 | Dr | N | N | N |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux 6.1 | Y | N | N | N |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux 6.4 | N | Y | Y | N |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux 6.7 | N | N | N | Y |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux 7.1 | N | N | N | Y |
| Sun | Solaris 9 | Y | N | N | N |
| Oracle | Solaris 10 (formerly known as Sun Solaris 10) | Y | Y | Y | D |
| Oracle | Solaris 11 | N | Y | Y | D |