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Software Provisioning
Component
Description Requirements
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 15–5. 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.
Linux and UNIX Patch Assessment and Deployment Requirements
VCM 5.7 supports UNIX patch assessments and deployments for various machine types and operating
systems. The PLS files used for UNIX patch assessments require 20MB of disk space.
Supported Operating System Supported Hardware
AIX 6.1 RISC and PowerPC
AIX 7.1 RISC and PowerPC
HP-UX 11i v1.0 (11.11) (up to 5.4 Agent only) PA-RISC
HP-UX 11i v2.0 (11.23) (up to 5.4 Agent only) Itanium
HP-UX 11i v2.0 (11.23) (up to 5.4 Agent only) PA-RISC
HP-UX 11i v3.0 (11.31) Itanium
HP-UX 11i v3.0 (11.31) PA-RISC
Mac OS X 10.6 (up to 5.5.0 Agent only) Intel-based Apple platforms only
Mac OS X 10.7, 10.8 Intel-based Apple platforms only
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 6.0, 6.1,
6.2, 6.3, Server, Desktop with Workstation, and Advanced Platform
x86 and x64 (includes Intel and
AMD architectures, excludes
Itanium)
Solaris 10 SPARC, SPARC-V9, x86, and x64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0–10.2 (up to 5.5.0 Agent
only)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.3–10.4, 11.0–11.2
x86 and x64 (includes Intel and
AMD architectures, excludes
Itanium)
Table 15–6. Linux and UNIX Patch Assessment and Deployment Operating System and Hardware
Requirements
VCM 5.7 provides UNIX patch assessment content in a new format for the following operating systems.
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