A.1 Virtual Machine Technologies

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

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

Hypervisor

Host Operating System

Guest Operating System

PlateSpin Orchestrate Provisioning Adapter

Xen 3.2

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP2

  • SLES 9

  • SLES 10

  • RHEL 4

  • RHEL 5

  • Other Linux

  • Windows Server 1 2003

  • Windows Server 2008 1

  • Windows XP 1

xen30

Xen 3.3

SLES 11

  • SLES 9

  • SLES 10

  • SLES 11

  • RHEL 4

  • RHEL 5

  • Other Linux

  • Windows Server 2003 1

  • Windows XP 1

  • Windows Server 2008 1

xen30

VMware Virtual Center 2.x 2

Subject to the VMware support matrix

  • SLES 8

  • SLES 9

  • SLES 10

  • RHEL 4

  • RHEL 5

  • Other Linux

  • Windows Server 2003

  • Windows XP

vcenter

VMware Server 1.x3

Subject to the VMware support matrix

  • SLES 9

  • SLES 10

  • RHEL 4

  • RHEL 5

  • Other Linux

  • Windows Server 2003

  • Windows XP

vmserver

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 vcenter provisioning adapter does not support VMware Virtual Center 1.x.

3 The vmserver provisioning adapter does not work with the VMware Server 2.x hypervisor. Novell considers the PlateSpin Orchestrate provisioning technology used in conjunction with VMware Server as “experimental” because it has not yet been fully tested.