A.1 Virtual Machine Technologies

The following table lists the available actions using VMs with PlateSpin Orchestrate:

Table A-1 VM Technologies with Host Operating System, Guest Operating System, and Provisioning Adapter

VM Technology

Host Operating System

Guest Operating System

PlateSpin Orchestrate Provisioning Adapter

  • Xen 3.3

  • Xen 4.0

  • SLES 10 SP3

  • SLES 11 SP1

  • SLES 11 SP1

  • SLES 10

  • SLES 11

  • RHEL 4

  • RHEL 5

  • Other Linux

  • Windows Server 20031

  • Windows XP1

  • Windows 71

  • Windows Server 20081

  • Windows Server 2008 R21

xen

VMware vSphere 42

Subject to the VMware support matrix

  • SLES 10

  • SLES 11

  • RHEL 4

  • RHEL 5

  • Other Linux

  • Windows Server 2003

  • Windows XP

  • Windows 7

  • Windows Server 2008

  • Windows Server 2008 R2

vsphere

Microsoft Hyper-V3

Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V enabled

  • Windows 2008 R2

  • Windows 2008 (32- bit and 64-bit)

  • Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • Windows 2000

  • Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • Windows XP Professional (32-bit and 64-bit)

  • SLES 10 (latest SP, 32-bit and 64-bit)4

  • SLES 11 (latest SP, 32-bit and 64-bit)4

  • RHEL 5.x (32-bit and 64-bit)4

hyperv

Amazon EC2

“Cloud” Web service in Amazon data center.

Instances currently supported are subject to Amazon support matrix. See the EC2 Web site for more information.

Currently, the Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that PlateSpin Orchestrate discovers include:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  • OpenSolaris

  • Fedora

  • Windows Server 2003/2008

  • openSUSE Linux Enterprise Server

  • Gentoo Linux

  • Oracle enterprise Linux

  • Ubuntu Linux

  • Debian

ec2

1 Windows VMs running on the Xen hypervisor require a VM host CPU with the Intel VT or AMD-V technology available and enabled.

2 The vsphere provisioning adapter does not support VMware Virtual Center 1.x.

3 A complete listing of guest OS support for the Hyper-V hypervisor is available at the Microsoft TechNet Web site and at the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V product page.

4 Auto prep is not supported on Linux platforms for this hypervisor.