Target platforms for provisioning

This version of BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management can provision the following platforms: 

• Supported operating systems for target systems:
  • Redhat Linux 5.x, 6.x 32-bit and 64-bit
  • Redhat Linux 6.0 64-bit along with physical server
  • Microsoft Windows 2008 32-bit and 64-bit
  • Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 64-bit along with physical server
  • Microsoft Windows 2012 64-bit on VMware along with physical server
  • IBM AIX 6.x, 7.x on LPAR on IBM pSeries
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11, 64-bit on VMware along with physical server
  • VMware ESXi 5.0 (Physical Server only)
  • Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 6.0, 64-bit on VMware along with physical server

  • CentOS 5.6 (This support requires that you set the OS Name in BMC Server Automation to Linux).

    Note

    If you have VMware vSphere Platform integrated with BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, and you plan to migrate to VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), contact BMC Support to obtain the latest information on supported migration paths.

    Switching from a Windows-based vCenter to a vCenter Server Appliance alters certain internal identifiers that disrupt the ability BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management to manage existing workloads and provision new workloads on that vCenter instance.

• Supported hypervisor platforms:
  • Citrix XenServer 5.6, 6.0.2
  • VMware vSphere 4.x, 5.x (Windows only)
  • VMware vCloud Director 1.5, 5.1, and 5.5
  • VMware ESXi 5.1, 5.5
  • VMware ESX 4.0
  • IBM pSeries 6, 7
  • Microsoft Hyper-V 2012, System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 SP1
    (See Support for Microsoft Hyper-V environments for more information.)
• Supported third-party cloud platforms:
  • Amazon Web Services (EC2, VPC) 
    • BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management uses the Amazon Web Services Java SDK 1.6.2. 
    • See the Amazon Web Services online technical documentation for more information on using the SDKs.
  • Savvis (API v1.5)
  • Terremark (API v2.14)
  • OpenStack (API v2.0)
• Supported storage provisioning platform:
  • NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager Core (previously known as NetApp DataFabric Manager) 4.x, 5.x, 7.x

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