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Hardware and Operating System Require-
ments -- Agent Machines
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Hardware and Operating System
Requirements -- Agent Machines
The Agent machines are the managed machines from which VCM collects data. The Agent is supported
many different machine and operating system types.
VCM Agent Requirements
The amount of additional disk space required on a managed machine running an Agent (Windows,
UNIX/Linux, Mac OS X,or AD) is fairly constant. Each machine requires no more than 200 MB in order to
run an Agent. However, the recommended memory to run the HP-UX Agent is 1 GB.
The following table provides the list of hardware platforms and operating systems supported by VCM.
While it may be possible to install Agents on platforms/operating system versions other than those listed
below, such configurations will not be supported. From time to time VMware introduces support for
additional platforms/operating systems. Please contact VMware Customer Support to confirm if a
particular platforms/operating system combination is supported by a later version of VCM if it is not listed
below.
Agent Supported Operating System
Supported
Hardware Platform
Windows
Microsoft Windows 2000 (up to 5.2.1 Agent only) x86
Microsoft Windows 2003 x86 and x64
Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 x86 and x64
Microsoft XP Professional (including SP3) x86 and x64
Microsoft XP Professional (SP2 and earlier up to 5.2.1 Agent only) x86 and x64
Microsoft Vista Business (including SP1) * x86 and x64
Microsoft Vista Ultimate (including SP1) * x86 and x64
Microsoft Vista Enterprise (including SP1) * x86 and x64
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 * x86 and x64
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 * x86 and x64
Microsoft Windows 7 * x86 and x64
UNIX/Linux
AIX 4.3.3 (up to 5.1.3 Agent only) See Note. RISC
AIX 5L 5.1 RISC
AIX 5L 5.2 RISC
AIX 5L 5.3 RISC
AIX 6L 6.1 (5.2 Agent or later) RISC and PowerPC
Debian 4.0 (Package LSB-Release is required) x86 and x64
HP-UX 11i v1.0 (11.11)
(If you are installing on HPUX 11.11, Patch PHSS_30966 is required.)
Supported in trusted mode.
PA-RISC
HP-UX 11i v2.0 (11.23) Itanium
HP-UX 11i v2.0 (11.23) PA-RISC
HP-UX 11i v3.0 (11.31) Itanium
HP-UX 11i v3.0 (11.31) PA-RISC
Table 3-1. Agent Operating System and Hardware Requirements
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