10.2. Is Your Hardware Compatible?
10.2. Is Your Hardware Compatible? Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (big endian) is compatible with IBM Power Systems servers which use the POWER7, POWER8, and POWER9 processor series. POWER6 processors and older are no longer supported. Red Hat Enterprise Linux also offers a little endian variant for IBM Power Systems. This variant is currently compatible with POWER8 and POWER9 processors, and is supported as a KVM guest on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Power, on PowerVM, and PowerNV (bare metal). The most recent list of supported hardware can be found in the Red Hat Hardware Compatibility List , available online at https://access.redhat.com/ecosystem/search/#/category/Server . Also see Red Hat Enterprise Linux technology capabilities and limits for general information about system requirements.