Platform Support

In future releases of Directory Server Enterprise Edition, support for Windows 2000, Red Hat Advanced Server 3.0, and J2SE platform 1.4 may be removed. Support for the native install package releases for platforms other than the Solaris operating system might be removed. Support for 32–bit versions of the software might be discontinued for some platforms. To be prepared, plan the transition to 64–bit versions of the software and to newer versions of the supported operating systems. See Operating System Requirements for details of the newer versions of supported operating systems.

Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 supports Logical Domains, (LDoms), on the SPARC platform for Solaris 10 Update 3 and later versions. For more information about LDoms, see the Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.1 Administration Guide.

System Virtualization Support

System virtualization is a technology that enables multiple operating system (OS) instances to execute independently on shared hardware. Functionally, software deployed to an OS hosted in a virtualized environment is generally unaware that the underlying platform has been virtualized. Sun performs testing of its Sun Java System products on select system virtualization and OS combinations to help validate that the Sun Java System products continue to function on properly sized and configured virtualized environments as they do on non-virtualized systems. For information about Sun support for Sun Java System products in virtualized environments, see http://download.oracle.com/820-4651.

For this release, Sun Microsystems supports any OS running on the VMware technology provided that the OS is already supported natively for the Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 software. Sun Microsystems does not certify every combination of OS and hardware, but relies on the underlying VMware technology implementation. Full deployment of the Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 software on the VMware technology is not recommended.

For details on supported hardware platforms for this release of Directory Server Enterprise Edition, see Hardware Requirements.

For details on supported operating systems and OS versions for this release of Directory Server Enterprise Edition, see Operating System Requirements.