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Hardware and Operating System
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Hardware and Operating System
Requirements for VCM Managed Machines
VCM collects data from Windows and UNIX machines that VCM manages. The VCM Agent is supported
on many different machine and operating system types.
This chapter includes the following topics:
VCM Agent Support on Non-English Windows Platforms 47
VCM Managed Machine Requirements 47
Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS Agent Files 50
Windows Custom Information Supports PowerShell 2.0 50
Supported OS Provisioning Target Systems 50
Software Provisioning Requirements 51
Linux and UNIX Patch Assessment and Deployment Requirements 52
Support for VMware Cloud Infrastructure 53
vCenter Operations Manager Integration Features 54
FIPS Requirements 54
Agent Sizing Information 56
VCM Agent Support on Non-English Windows Platforms
If you install the VCM Agent on non-English (non-ENU) Windows machines, and collect data from these
machines, review the following dependencies and limitations.
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You might need additional language packs on Windows machines where VCM administrators run the
VCM Web console interface to display non-western data that VCM collects from these machines.
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Non-English versions of Microsoft patches in Spanish, French, and Danish are currently supported.
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Compliance rules that refer to Services must use the internal names rather than the display names,
because the display names might be localized.
VCM Managed Machine Requirements
VCM can manage various machines and operating systems. The table below lists the supported
VCMAgents, operating system, and hardware platforms.
If the list of supported machines and operating systems does not include your specific combination of
platform and operating system, contact VMware Technical Support to confirm whether your
configuration is supported by a later version of VCM.
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