Installation guide

Agent Supported Operating System
Supported
Hardware Platform
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (ES/AS) (up to 5.1.3 Agent only) See
Note.
x86
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (ES/AS) including Desktop with
Workstation edition
x86
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (ES/AS) including Desktop with
Workstation edition
x86 and x64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 Server, Desktop with
Workstation, and Advanced Platform
x86 and x64
Solaris 2.5 (up to 5.1.3 Agent only) See Note. Sparc
Solaris 2.6 (up to 5.2.1 Agent only) See Note. Sparc
Solaris 8 Sparc and Sparc-V9
Solaris 9 Sparc and Sparc-V9
Solaris 10
(certified and verified on Solaris 10 zfs and custom information data
class collections on both zfs and vxfs)
Sparc, Sparc-V9, x86,
and x64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9 x86 and x64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 x86 and x64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.2 x86 and x64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.3 x86 and x64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 x86 and x64
Mac OS X
(servers and
workstations)
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel and PowerPC
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel and PowerPC
Oracle 9i
Solaris 9 Sparc and Sparc-V9
Solaris 10 Sparc and Sparc-V9
Oracle 10g
Solaris 9 Sparc-V9
Solaris 10 Sparc-V9, x86, and
x64
Active Directory
Microsoft Windows 2000 x86
Microsoft Windows 2003 x86 and x64
Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 x86 and x64
Microsoft Windows 2008 x86 and x64
VCM Remote VCM Remote supports the same platforms as the Windows Agent
* The platforms indicated above with an asterisk (*) with agents prior to the 5.2.1 agent may not correctly
report the name of the operating system. We recommend upgrading these platform agents as soon as
possible.
NOTE The platforms above indicated with the "(up to 5.1.3 Agent only)" note are supported only to the
Agent version specified. You can install the 5.1.3 version of the Agent on the platforms specified, but you
cannot install newer or the current Agent. This means that you will not be able to use the new features in
this release on those platforms.
The platforms above indicated with the "(up to 5.2.1 Agent only)" note are supported only to the Agent
version specified. You can install the 5.2.1 version of the Agent on the platforms specified, but you cannot
install newer or the current Agent. This means that you will not be able to use the new features in this
release on those platforms.
Contact VMware Customer Support for the earlier supported Agents.
The following x64 Platforms have been tested.
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For Windows: Intel64 and AMD64
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For Linux: Intel64 and AMD64
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For Solaris: Intel64
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