This is a follow up to my previous post on what is supported in version 1.0.1 and is updated for version 1.5. You can find most of this in the vCloud Installation Guides and release notes. I have grabbed most of the key pre-requisites, and I may have missed some so please don’t use this as gospel. Again, I am sorry for just cutting and pasting from the manuals, but really I am trying to drive the simple point home that we all need to read the manuals with any application install. For reference here is where you can find all the vCloud Director Documentation including release notes.
Supported VMware Cloud Director Server Host Platform for 1.5:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64 bit), Update 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64 bit), Update 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64 bit), Update 6
Required Linux Packages for 1.5:
alsa-lib, libICE, module-init-tools, bash, libSM, net-tools, chkconfig, libstdc, pciutils, coreutils, libX11, procps, findutils, libXau, redhat-lsb, glibc, libXdmcp, sed, grep, libXext, tar, initscripts, libXi, which, krb5-libs, libXt, libgcc, libXtst
Supported VMware vSphere vCenter Version For 1.5:
4.0 Update 2
4.0 Update 3
4.1
4.1 Update 1
5.0 Required for Fast Provisioning, Hardware version 8, VPN Support
Supported VMware vSphere ESX/ESXi Version for 1.5:
4.0 Update 2
4.0 Update 3
4.1
4.1 Update 1
5.0 Required for Fast Provisioning, Hardware version 8, VPN Support
Supported VMware vShield Manager Versions for 1.5:
1.0
1.0 Update 1
5.0 Required for Fast Provisioning, Hardware version 8, VPN Support
Supported Database Versions for 1.5:
Oracle 10g Standard Edition Release 2 Patch Level 10.2.0.x
Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition Release 2 Patch Level 10.2.0.x
Oracle 11g Standard Edition Patch Level 11.1.0.x
Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition Patch Level 11.1.0.x
Oracle 11g R2 Patch Level 11.2.0.x
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard SP4
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise SP4
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express (64 bit) SP2
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard (64 bit) Cumulative Update 2
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise (64 bit) Cumulative Update 2
Note on Clustering Support – Oracle RAC with active/active ONS clustering as well as Microsoft SQL Clustering does NOT appear to be supported based on the documentation. I am personally trying to get some level of clarification on this topic.
Supported Browser and Guest OS Versions:
This is definitely found in the Installation Guide starting on Page 11
Well Then, What is NOT Supported?
Well it is safe to say as before if it is not listed in the installation guides or a KB then it is not supported. There has been a lot of guest operating systems added for support and new browsers, but there is still some things unsupported like other Linux distributions for the director Cells. There are features of vSphere 5 like Storage DRS which is also currently not supported and should in fact be disabled for now with 1.5. Also previously mentioned was clustering of the vCloud Director Databases. As always it may work, but if it is not supported just don’t do it.