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System Requirements
This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for IBM® Rational® Test Virtualization Server.
Host prerequisites

Rational® Test Virtualization Server
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about What's new, installation, known issues, and contact information of IBM Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for IBM® Rational® Test Virtualization Server.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with Rational® Test Virtualization Server.
- Administrator Guide
  Typically, a user with the administrator role is responsible for certain tasks including installation, configuration, and integration of the product. This guide lists all such topics.
- Tester Guide
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
- Test Manager Guide
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for tracking the quality of the application. This guide is intended for Test Managers.
- Security Considerations
  You can take certain actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
- Notices
  This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for product documentation.

Host prerequisites

You can find the prerequisites that support the operating capabilities for the following components:

Server: IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel
Agent: IBM® Rational® Integration Tester Agent

Contents

Databases

Note: Databases are required if you want to use a Results database.


Database	Version	Components		Notes
Database	Version	Server	Agent	Notes
IBM Db2 Database (all editions)	11.1 and future fix packs			Supported editions include Advanced Enterprise Server, Server, Enterprise Developer, and Advanced Edition.
IBM Db2 Database (all editions)	11.5 and future fix packs
Microsoft SQL Server	2019 and future fix packs (all editions)
MySQL	5.7 and future fix packs
MySQL	8.0 and future fix packs
Oracle Database	19c

Licensing


License server	Version	Components		Notes
License server	Version	Server	Agent	Notes
IBM Common License Key Server	9.0	Not applicable		Required, if you use anything other than LUM/PVU licensing.

Virtualization management


Container	Version	Components		Notes
Container	Version	Server	Agent	Notes
Docker	20.03			Required if running the Dockerized image of the engine.
Docker	20.10			Required if running the Dockerized image of the engine.

Web browsers

Note: Web browsers are required if you want to connect to the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel web interface.


Browser	Version	Components
Browser	Version	Server	Agent
Apple Safari	12 or later		Not applicable
Google Chrome	78 or later		Not applicable
Microsoft Edge	80 or later		Not applicable
Mozilla Firefox	77 or later		Not applicable
Mozilla Firefox (including ESR versions)	68 or later		Not applicable
Opera	67 or later		Not applicable