- You can even virtualize a DB2 pureScale cluster on Linux: The "yes, it is supported" can be found in the Information Center when looking for KVM. All the technical details of setting such a cluster up are discussed in this developerWorks article: Virtualize the IBM DB2 pureScale Feature on Linux using Kernel-based Virtual Machine
- An overview of all supported DB2 virtualization environments, e.g., which hypervisor, which guest operating systems, etc., is provided on this developerWorks page.
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
DB2 in virtualized environments
I had written about DB2 and virtualization in the past. You can use DB2 in many virtual environments and there are already kind of "dated" redbooks explaining details about DB2 with VMWare, PowerVM, and others. Today I want to point you to two interesting resources: