User`s guide

Agent Supported Operating System
Supported
Hardware
Platform
Platforms To
Be Upgraded
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 Supports the same platforms as the Windows Agent.
Windows Custom Information Supports PowerShell 2.0
Windows Custom Information (WCI) uses PowerShell as the scripting engine and the element-normal
XML format as the output that is inserted into the VCM database.
WCI supports PowerShell 2.0 and works with later versions of PowerShell.
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PowerShell 2.0 is the base requirement for WCI in VCM because of its ability to set the execution policy
at the process level.
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You can run WCI PowerShell collection scripts against Windows machines that have PowerShell 1.0
installed, although this usage is not supported or tested. If the collection scripts do not use PowerShell
2.0 commands, any of your WCI filters that use the in-line method to pass a WCI script to PowerShell
will operate correctly.
With PowerShell 2.0, you can set the script signing policies at the machine, user, and process levels. The
process level runs a single execution of powershell.exe.
In VCM, Windows Custom Information (WCI) uses script type information in the collection filter to
determine how to execute PowerShell and how to pass the script to it.
For more information, see the VCM Installation and Getting StartedGuide.
Supported OS Provisioning Target Systems
You use OS provisioning to install the following operating system on machines with at least 1GB RAM.
Operating System Versions
ESX 4.0u1/u2, 4.1, 4.1u1
ESXi 4.1, 4.1u1, 5.0
Windows 2008 R2 - 64-bit - Std, Ent, Web, DC, StdCore, EntCore, WebCore,
DCCore
SP2 - i386 and 64-bit - Std, Ent, DC, StdCore, EntCore, DCCore
Windows 7 Pro i386 and 64-bit
Windows 2003 R2 SP2 - i386 and 64-bit - Std, Ent
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
(SLES)
10.3, 32- and 64-bit
11.1, 32- and 64-bit
Table 5–2. Supported Operating Systems
Hardware and Operating System Requirements for VCM Managed Machines
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