User`s guide

Software Provisioning Requirements
VCM Software Provisioning provides the components to create software provisioning packages, publish
the packages to repositories, and install and remove software packages on target machines.
Supported Operating System Supported Hardware Platform
Microsoft Windows 7 x86, x64
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 x86, x64
Windows Vista SP2 x86, x64
Microsoft Windows XP SP3 x86
Microsoft Windows XP SP2 x64
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 x86, x64
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 x86, x64
Table 3-1. Software Provisioning Operating System and Hardware Requirements
Software Provisioning Component Software Requirements
The VCM Software Provisioning components and their software requirements are listed here.
Software Provisioning Component Description
Requires
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Package Studio
Application used to the create the software
packages.
.NET 3.5.1 or higher
Software Repositories File system used to store the shared
software packages.
.NET 3.5.1 and IIS 6,
7, or 7.5
Package Manager Application on each managed machine that
downloads packages from repositories,
and installs and removes the software
contained in the packages.
.NET 3.5.1 or higher
Table 3-2. Software Provisioning Component Requirements
You can use any virtual machine guest on VMware ESX and ESXi Servers that meets these requirements
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. The
associated assessment PLS files require at least 20MB.
Supported Operating System Supported Hardware Platform
AIX 5L 5.1 RISC and PowerPC
AIX 5L 5.2 RISC and PowerPC
AIX 5L 5.3 RISC and PowerPC
AIX 6.1 RISC and PowerPC
HP-UX 11iV1 (11.11) PA-RISC
HP-UX 11iv2.0 Itanium
HP-UX 11i v2.0 PA-RISC
HP-UX 11i v3.0 (11.31) Itanium
Table 3-1. UNIX/Linux Patch Assessment and Deployment Operating System and Hardware
Requirements
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