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Table 3 Managed system requirements (continued)

RequirementComponent

• RHEL 5 Update 5

• RHEL 5 Update 6

• RHEL 5 Update 7

• RHEL 6

• SLES 10 SP3

• RHEL 6 Update 1

• SLES 10 SP4

• SLES 11

• SLES 11 SP1

IMPORTANT: Not all virtualization operating systems listed in this table are supported on

all ProLiant G6, G7, and Gen8 series servers. See the table entry for your server in Chapter 4

(page 12) for exceptions.

RHEL 4 requires a different PSP. For more information, see “ProLiant Support Pack” (page 18).

Software RAID is not supported on RHEL 6, SLES 10, or SLES 11 operating systems.

Installing this operating system on any Gen8 server or on any G7 (AMD Opteron 6200) server requires a driver kit ISO

image (KISO) provided by SUSE. For information on obtaining the KISO, see the section titled “Copying SLES 10 SP4

or SLES 11 SP1 (KISO) into the repository” in the HP Insight Control for Linux User Guide.

Network installation of an ESX virtualization operating system is not supported by Insight Control for Linux if the server

requires a "driver CD". This includes servers with a ServerEngines NIC.

HP is not releasing a customized image for this hypervisor, therefore, it cannot be installed from Insight Control for Linux.

If an HP ProLiant server requires an HP customized image, then you must first install the HP ESX/ESXi 4.0 U2 or HP

ESX/ESXi 4.0 U3 customized image, then manually upgrade to VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0 U4 using the ESX/ESXi 4.0

update package.

The VMware ESX 4.0 U4 download address is:

http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/esx40u4/ZHcqYnRwaipidGR3cA==

For more information, see the VMware release notes:

http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esx40_u4_rel_notes.html

PXE booting of the ESXi 4.1 and ESXi 5.0 installer is only supported when performing an unattended (also known as

scripted) installation. If you need to install ESXi 4.1 or ESXi 5.0 interactively, you must use virtual media which is available

on iLO-based servers. For more information on performing an installation using virtual media, see the HP Insight Control

for Linux User Guide. Insight Control for Linux provides enablement for performing an interactive network installation of

ESXi 4.0 Update 2 using PXE, but VMware may choose not to support an installation done in this manner because it is

not their recommended way for installing ESXi operating systems.

For installations on a SLES 10 CMS using PXE, this virtualization operating system, because of the size of boot files,

might require tftp (instead of atftp).

This virtualization operating system is not supported on HP ProLiant G7 servers that have only one processor, for example,

the ML110 G7.

IMPORTANT: Only the ESXi 5.0 image customized by HP is supported; the image provided by VMware lacks necessary

drivers for certain servers. For information on which servers are supported, see the following website:

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/vmware/supportmatrix/hpvmware.html

For information on VMware from HP, see the following website:

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/vmware/index.html

Novell supports Xen-PAE kernel only in SLES 10 SP3 x86 Host, but Novell supports both Xen and Xen-PAE kernels in the

SLES 10 SP3 x86_64 host. Insight Control virtual machine management is tested on the corresponding supported kernel.

Although the KVM virtualization operating system is not supported by virtual machine management, Insight Control for

Linux supports the installation of KVM guests and hosts.

10 Managed system requirements