Windows Custom Information Supports Powershell Version 2.0; Software Provisioning Requirements; Software Provisioning Component Software Requirements; Software Provisioning On Guests - VMware VCENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER 5.3 - SOFTWARE REQUIEREMENTS GUIDE Configuration

Itanium is not supported for either Windows or UNIX/Linux.

Windows Custom Information supports PowerShell version 2.0

PowerShell version 2.0 is required for Windows Custom Information (WCI). VMware recommends that
you upgrade from PowerShell 1.0 to PowerShell 2.0, which introduced a number of useful functions.
Because of the additional ability to have the execution policy set at the process level, PowerShell 2.0 is the
base requirement for WCI in VCM. The default script type command line used for script based filters in
WCI includes options to set the process-level execution policy to Remote Signed. This allows WCI to
execute collection scripts against systems whose machine and user level signing policies may be anything,
without having to change the setting. Out-of-the-box, VCM's Windows Custom Information non-in-line
collection filters will fail if executed against PowerShell 1.0 client systems.
PowerShell 2.0 is supported on all platforms that support PowerShell 1.0. For more information, see the
online Help.

Software Provisioning Requirements

VCM Software Provisioning provides the components to create software provisioning packages, publish
the packages to repositories, and then install and remove software packages on target machines.
The following operating systems are supported platforms:
Table 3-1. Software Provisioning Operating System and Hardware Requirements
Supported Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2
Windows Vista SP2
Microsoft Windows XP SP3
Microsoft Windows XP SP2
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2

Software Provisioning Component Software Requirements

The following are the VCM Software Provisioning components and their software requirements:
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Package Studio: The application used to the create the
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software packages. Requires .NET 3.5.1.
Software Repositories: The file system used to store the shared software packages. Requires .NET 3.5.1
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and IIS 6, 7, or 7.5.
Package Manager: The application on each managed machine that downloads packages from
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repositories, and then installs and removes the software contained in the packages. Requires .NET 3.5.1.

Software Provisioning on Guests

Any virtual machine guest on VMware ESX 3.5 and vSphere 4 (both i and non-i versions) meeting the
above requirements can be used for any of the VCM Software Provisioning components.

UNIX/Linux Patch Assessment and Deployment Requirements

UNIX patch assessments and deployments are currently supported for the following platforms.
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Hardware and Operating System Requirements -- Agent Machines
Supported Hardware Platform
x86, x64
x64
x86, x64
x86, x64
x86
x64
x86, x64
x86, x64
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