Install Guide

Installing Managed System Software On

Supported Linux And VMware ESXi

The following table explains the operating system installation matrix for Systems Management.

Table 4. Operating System Installation Matrix

Operating System Architecture 64-bit Architecture

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Install

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Install

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Install

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 SP1 Install

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 (supported only on

PowerEdge VRTX)

Install

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP4 Install

ESXi 6.0 U1 Install

ESXi 5.5 U3 Install

ESXi 5.1 U3 (supported only on 11th generation of PowerEdge

servers)

Install

NOTE: On a Systems Management upgrade, it is recommended to upgrade to the latest open source components

available on the

Systems Management Tools and Documentation

DVD or from dell.com/support/home.

NOTE: If you are upgrading the operating system to a major version, uninstall the existing version of Systems

Management and install the supported version.

NOTE: Before you migrate to a 64-bit version of Systems Management software, make sure you uninstall the 32-bit

Systems Management and other open source components (openwsman-server, openwsman-client, libwsman1, sblim-

sfcb, sblim-sfcc, libcmpiCppImpl0, libsmbios2, smbios-utils-bin) installed as part of the 32-bit Systems Management.

NOTE: The Inventory Collector RPM (srvadmin-cm) requires the following RPMs to be preinstalled on servers prior to

11th generation of PowerEdge servers running supported 64-bit Linux operating system.

• glibc.i686

• compat-libstdc++.i686

• libstdc++.i686

• zlib.i686libxml2.i686

If the dependent RPMs are not installed then Inventory Collector will not function as expected and exits with error

messages.

NOTE: On systems running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 (32-bit) operating system the Emulex driver dependent on

the following RPMs:

• kernel-headers-2.6.18-346.el5.i386.rpm

• glibc-headers-2.5-107.i386.rpm

• glibc-devel-2.5-107.i386.rpm

• gcc-4.1.2-54.el5.i386.rpm

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