Hardware And Operating System Requirements -- Agent Machines; Vcm Agent Requirements - VMware VCENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER 5.3 - SOFTWARE REQUIEREMENTS GUIDE Configuration

Hardware and Operating System Require-
ments -- Agent Machines
The Agent machines are the managed machines from which VCM collects data. The Agent is supported
many different machine and operating system types.

VCM Agent Requirements

The amount of additional disk space required on a managed machine running an Agent (Windows,
UNIX/Linux, Mac OS X,or AD) is fairly constant. Each machine requires no more than 200 MB in order to
run an Agent. However, the recommended memory to run the HP-UX Agent is 1 GB.
The following table provides the list of hardware platforms and operating systems supported by VCM.
While it may be possible to install Agents on platforms/operating system versions other than those listed
below, such configurations will not be supported. From time to time VMware introduces support for
additional platforms/operating systems. Please contact VMware Customer Support to confirm if a
particular platforms/operating system combination is supported by a later version of VCM if it is not listed
below.
Table 3-1. Agent Operating System and Hardware Requirements
Agent
Windows
UNIX/Linux
VMware, Inc.
Supported Operating System
Microsoft Windows 2000 (up to 5.2.1 Agent only)
Microsoft Windows 2003
Microsoft Windows 2003 R2
Microsoft XP Professional (including SP3)
Microsoft XP Professional (SP2 and earlier up to 5.2.1 Agent only)
Microsoft Vista Business (including SP1) *
Microsoft Vista Ultimate (including SP1) *
Microsoft Vista Enterprise (including SP1) *
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 *
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 *
Microsoft Windows 7 *
AIX 4.3.3 (up to 5.1.3 Agent only) See Note.
AIX 5L 5.1
AIX 5L 5.2
AIX 5L 5.3
AIX 6L 6.1 (5.2 Agent or later)
Debian 4.0 (Package LSB-Release is required)
HP-UX 11i v1.0 (11.11)
(If you are installing on HPUX 11.11, Patch PHSS_30966 is required.)
Supported in trusted mode.
HP-UX 11i v2.0 (11.23)
HP-UX 11i v2.0 (11.23)
HP-UX 11i v3.0 (11.31)
HP-UX 11i v3.0 (11.31)
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Supported
Hardware Platform
x86
x86 and x64
x86 and x64
x86 and x64
x86 and x64
x86 and x64
x86 and x64
x86 and x64
x86 and x64
x86 and x64
x86 and x64
RISC
RISC
RISC
RISC
RISC and PowerPC
x86 and x64
PA-RISC
Itanium
PA-RISC
Itanium
PA-RISC
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