Regardless of whether an operating environment runs on a platform with or without s-Par firmware, the following operating systems are supported:
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Datacenter Edition
Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition
Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition
Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP4 (available as a customer-supplied OS only)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 SP1 (available as a customer-supplied OS only)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 (available as a customer-supplied OS only)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (available as a customer-supplied OS only)
CentOS 6.7 (available as a customer-supplied OS only)
CentOS 7.2 (available as a customer-supplied OS only)
Note: For the latest list of supported operating systems for your release, refer to the ClearPath Forward Supported Operating Systems link that is available from the ClearPath Forward portion of the Unisys Product Support site.
You have the following options for installation of operating systems:
Purchase operating systems from Unisys Corporation, in which case Unisys Corporation installs the operating systems on the enterprise partition platforms. Note that Unisys Corporation cannot sell Microsoft operating systems independent of hardware platforms.
Use your own operating system licenses, and install the operating systems and additional software on the enterprise partition platforms yourself.