User`s guide

Physical Requirements
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Processor. Single Xeon or single-core 2 GHz minimum
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RAM. 4 GB minimum
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Disk Space. Each VCM for Virtualization Agent Proxy requires an additional 93 MB of disk space,
above the 200 MB required for the standard Agent. In addition, you will also need:
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4 MB per ESX server for data model storage
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150 MB per ESX server for Agent master files
Virtual Requirements
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CPU. One virtual CPU, 2GHz, on a supported ESX host machine.
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RAM. 4 GB minimum reservation on a supported ESX host machine.
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Storage. Each VCM for Virtualization Agent Proxy requires an additional 93MB of disk space, above
the 200 MB required for the standard Agent on a supported ESX platform. In addition, you will also
need:
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4 MB per ESX server for data model storage
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150 MB per ESX server for Agent master files
Supported vCenter Server Collections
VCM supports collecting data from vCenter Server 4, 4.0.x, and 4.1. Collections.
When collecting from vCenter Server, you must license and install a VCM Windows Agent, PowerShell,
and vSphere PowerCLI 2.0 on the machine running vCenter. The Agent runs the vCenter collection using
vSphere PowerCLI to access the vSphere API on the vCenter Servers. The data is relayed to the Collector
and added to the database.
FIPS Requirements
If your organization must conform to the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), the following
tables list the VCM-supported standards.
FIPS for Windows
For the following Windows platforms, VCM uses the Microsoft CryptoAPI and the Microsoft
Cryptographic Service Providers (CSPs), which is included with Microsoft Windows.
Operating System Version Hardware Platform FIPS Module Certificate
.NET 3 cil 894
Windows Vista 1 x86 899
Windows Vista 1 x86 and 64-bit 894
Windows Vista 1 x86 and 64-bit 893
Windows Vista 1 x86 and 64-bit 892
Windows 2003 SP2 x86 and 64-bit 875
Windows 2003 SP1 x86 and 64-bit 382
Windows 2003 SP1 x86 and 64-bit 381
Windows 2003 Gold x86 and 64-bit 382
Windows 2003 Gold x86 and 64-bit 381
Windows XP SP2 x86 240
Windows XP SP2 x86 238
Table 3-1. FIPS Support for Windows Machines
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