2.5
Table Of Contents
- Installation Guide
- About This Book
- Introduction to the Lab Manager Installation
- Installation Requirements
- Installing Lab Manager
- Upgrading Lab Manager
- Appendix: Troubleshooting the Installation
- Index
VMware Lab Manager Installation Guide
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Processor PentiumIII,Pentium4,
Xeon,Opteron,orAthlon
processor(32‐bitonly)
AnyCPUcompatiblewithESX
Server.
Ifyoudonothavea
homogenousCPUsetup
acrossManagedServer
systems,ESXServerprevents
youfromdeploying
“suspended”virtual
machinesononeManaged
ServertoanotherManaged
Serverthatisnotcompatible
withthevirtualmachineCPU.
(Discardthesuspendedstate
toresolvetheissue.)For
detailsonvirtual
machinesin
asuspendedstate,seethe
VMwareLab ManagerUser’s
Guide.
Toreviewhardware
requirementsfor64‐bitguest
operatingsystemsupport,see
theVMwareInfrastructure3
InstallationandUpgradeGuide.
Harddisk
40GBminimum
(Recommended)200GBor
more
(Recommended)RAID0or
RAID5forhighest
performance
(Recommended)SANstorage.
Minimumrequirementisalocal
SCSIdrivewithasupportedSCSI
adapter.Doesnotallowyouto
sharevirtualmachinesacross
systems.
FiberChannelandsoftwareand
hardware‐initiatediSCSI
adapters.See“VirtualMachine
Storage(Datastore)”onpage 20.
500MBminimumavailableinthe
/varpartition.
120MBavailableinthe/usr
partition.
FormoredetailsonSAN
requirements,seetheVMware
Infrastructure3documentation.
Table 2-1. System Requirements (Continued)
System
Component Lab Manager Server Managed Server