For a list of supported configurations see System requirements and supported configurations.
Design Management internal topologyThe following figure shows the internal topology of an installation of Design Management along with Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) environment with several applications.

In version 3.0, Design Management stored user and administration information in its own database and could be a friend server to the Jazz Team Server. In version 4.0, Design Management has a database to store Design Management application data, but user and other administration information no longer resides in a Design Management database: it resides in the Jazz Team Server database. In addition, Design Management 4.0, the Design Management application can share the same Jazz Team Server as other CLM applications. Design Management 4.0 integrates more fully into a CLM environment so that administration tasks apply to all CLM products, including Design Management.