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RHEL 4 or 5
SLES 9
For example, these operating systems might be running in VMware or on a physical machine.
The operating system must have a hypervisor supported by PlateSpin Orchestrate. The following
table lists the supported hypervisors and host operating systems. For a listing of currently supported
guest operating systems, refer to the host operating system vendor's Web site.
Hypervisors and Supported Host Operating Systems
Table 2-2
Hypervisor
Xen 3.0
VMware Server
VMware Virtual Center
VMware ESX 3.0.x/3.5.x
Microsoft Hyper-V
NOTE: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is not
supported.
With the hypervisor installed on one of the supported operating systems, the Orchestrate Server
deploys the VMs to the host machine using the hypervisor-associated provisioning adapter to start
and use the VMs for jobs. The provisioning adapters allow you to control and migrate the VM. For a
detailed explanation of the actions you can perform with a VM through its provisioning adapter, see
"Managing Virtual Machines" in the
Installing the Orchestrate Agent
The manual installation procedure for the Orchestrate Agent depends on the operating system. The
installed Orchestrate Agent components are:
novell-zenworks-monitor-gmond-3.0.4-50.x86_64.rpm
Host Operating System
SLES 10
SLES 10 SP 1
SLES 10 SP2
SLES 11
NPIV is supported for Xen 3.0 hypervisor running
only on SLES 10 SP2 and SLES 11.
RHEL 5
SLES 10
SLES 10 SP 1
RHEL 4
RHEL 5
Windows Server 2003 and 2008
*Subject to the VMware support matrix
*Subject to the VMware support matrix
Windows Server 2008 enabled with Hyper-V
PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0 VM Client Guide and Reference.
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