In a software-only installation, the customer owns the operating system and must provide and configure the operating system for use with Avaya Aura® application. With the software-only offer, the customer can install and customize the operating system to meet the requirements to install the Avaya Aura® application.
You must run the software-only offer on the supported environments to enable the use of Avaya approved third-party applications for anti-virus, backup, and monitoring.
Customers and/or Service Providers must procure a server or virtual machine that meets the recommended hardware requirements and the appropriate version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux® Operating System.
Software security updates
Avaya Security Service Packs (SSP) are built for customers who do not use the software-only distribution. In a software-only deployment, the customer provides the operating system. The customer is responsible for installing the appropriate operating system and applying the relevant security patches from Red Hat.
Avaya Communication Manager Security Service Packs (SSP) can be incompatible or fail to install on a customer controlled operating system.
For more details, see Avaya Aura® Release Notes on the Avaya Support website.
Supported third-party applications
With the software-only (ISO) offer, you can install third-party applications on the system. For the list of supported third-party software applications in Release 10.1 and later, see Avaya Product Support Notices.
Avaya Aura® Software-Only environment RPMs
In a software-only installation, the customer installs the Red Hat provided RPM updates. To avoid possible issues or incompatibilities with new RPMs, check the list of tested RPMs and follow the instructions in the PSN020617u that Avaya publishes periodically on the Avaya Support website.
Note:
For information about RPM updates for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system and required changes to operating system files on Software only installation, see Avaya Aura® Software Only White paper on the Avaya Support website.
With Release 10.1 and later, there are no separate Kernel Service Packs (KSP), and Linux Security Update (LSU).
Supported platforms
You can deploy the Avaya Aura® application software-only ISO image on the following:
On-premise platforms:
VMware
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)
Hyper-V
Nutanix 6.5 and later
Cloud platforms:
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud Platform
Microsoft Azure
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
Specifications for Avaya Aura® applications on IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is same as that of the Virtualized Environment offer.
For information about IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, see IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions product documentation.
Note:
Branch Session Manager is not supported on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure.
