HP Insight Software 6.1 Support Matrix

1 Support overview
This support matrix lists the minimum software, firmware, and hardware requirements for installing HP Insight
software.
For more information about the products in the Insight software family of core products as well as a
documentation roadmap of all documentation, see the HP Insight Software 6.0 Getting Started Guide , which
is available at the following website:
http://www.hp.com/go/insightsoftware/docs
New support summary
This release introduced support for the VMware ESX 4.0 Update 2 hypervisor host for running a CMS in a
supported virtual machine guest
This release introduced support for the following software for managed systems:
• Operating systems:
RHEL 5.5•
• SLES 11 SP1
• Hypervisors:
VMware ESX 4.0 Update 2•
• VMware ESX 4.1 (initial release)
• VMware ESXi 4.0 Update 2
• VMware ESXi 4.1 (initial release)
• Citrix XenServer 5.5 Update 1 (only Systems Insight Manager and Insight Control power
management)
• Hypervisor management:
VMware Virtual Center Server 2.5 Update 6•
• VMware vCenter Server 4.0 Update 2
• VMware vCenter Server 4.1 (only Systems Insight Manager and Insight Control)
Deprecated support summary
This release deprecated support for the Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Standard Edition x86 (initial
release) OS on the CMS.
This release deprecated support for the following software on managed systems:
• OSs:
Windows Server 2008, Standard Core•
• Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Core
• Windows Server 2008, Datacenter Core
• Windows Server 2003, Compute Cluster Edition, x64
• Windows 2000 (all editions, versions, and service packs)
• Windows XP Professional, SP1
• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AS/ES 3.9 for x86
• RHEL AS/ES 3.9 for AMD64 and Intel x86-64
• RHEL AS/ES 3.9 for Intel Itanium
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