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Table 3-1. IT Assistant Support for Virtualization
Virtualization
Environment
IT Assistant Features Supported IT Assistant Features Not
Supported
VMware
ESX Server 3.5 and
later
Grouping of host and guests on
the Devices tree and display of
host-guest association
information, power monitoring,
alerting, application launch, tasks,
software updates (BIOS,
firmware, and driver), and
inventory.
Performance monitoring
VMware ESXi 3.5
Update 4 and later
VMware ESXi 3.5 Update 4 traps
are displayed. Systems with
VMware ESXi 3.5 Update 4 are
discovered under the Unknown
category.
Grouping of host and guests
on the Devices tree and
display of host-guest
association information,
performance and power
monitoring, application
launch, tasks, software
updates, and inventory.
Microsoft Hyper-V
Server 2008 and
Windows Server
2008 with Hyper-V
role
Grouping of host and guests on
the Devices tree and display of
host-guest association
information, performance and
power monitoring, alerting,
application launch, tasks, software
updates, and inventory,
automatic update of the host
configuration if a virtual machine
migrates from one host to
another.
Canned report for guests running
on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
and Windows Server 2008 with
Hyper-V role are similar to
VMware ESX Server. For more
information, see the IT Assistant
Online Help.
Not Applicable