2.0 System Requirements

ZENworks Appliance is a 64-bit (x86_64) virtual machine. The following sections provide the requirements for deploying ZENworks Appliance onto a virtual infrastructure:

Table 2-1 ZENworks Appliance Requirements

Item

Requirements

Hypervisor

  • Citrix Xen Server 5.x, 6.2, and 6.5

  • Xen Server on SLES 11 SP3 and SLES 12

  • VMware ESXi 5.x and 6.x

  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server Windows 2008 R2, and 2012

Virtual Machine Configuration

ZENworks Appliance requires the following minimum configuration that have been preconfigured by default:

  • RAM: 4 GB minimum

  • Disk Space: 60 GB minimum

  • CPU Cores: 2

ZENworks require two hard disks. One hard disk of size 60 GB is pre-configured with the appliance that contains the operating system and the other hard disk of size minimum 15 GB should be added for the ZENworks data.

Depending on your requirement, you can increase the pre-configured disk space after deploying ZENworks Appliance

IP Address

The server must have a static IP address or a permanently leased DHCP address.

Database

The following are the supported databases:

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, 2008 SP2, 2012, and 2014

  • Oracle 11.2.0.4 Standard and Enterprise Edition, 11.2.0.4 RAC, 12c (12.1.0.1 and 12.1.0.2)

  • Sybase SQL Anywhere 12

ZENworks Appliance comes with pre-installed Sybase SQL Anywhere database. However, you can choose the other supported database and that must meet the database requirements.

For more information, see Database Requirements in the System Requirements.

Administration Browser

The following are supported web browsers for the appliance console:

  • Internet Explorer version 10 and 11 on all supported Windows platform.

    IMPORTANT:

    • ZENworks supports Internet Explorer 10 in Compatibility view when the Document Mode is IE 8 Standard or IE 9 Standard.

  • Firefox ESR version 24.x and 31.x

  • Firefox version 30 onwards (including any patches) on Windows and Linux devices

Supported Languages

These are the supported languages for the appliance console:

  • English - en

  • French - fr

  • German - de

  • Italian - it

  • Japanese - ja

  • Portuguese (Brazilian)

  • Simplified Chinese - zh_CN

  • Traditional Chinese - zh_TW

  • Spanish - es