VMware vCenter XVP Manager and Converter provides basic virtualization management capabilities for non-vSphere hypervisor platforms towards enabling centralized visibility and control across heterogeneous virtual infrastructures. It also simplifies and enables easy migrations of virtual machines from non-vSphere virtualization platforms to VMware vSphere.
The vCenter XVP Manager Server system is a physical machine or virtual machine, which must meet specific requirements. The vCenter XVP Manager Client plug-in installs on a vSphere Client machine and has the same hardware requirements as vSphere Client. vCenter XVP Manager Client host operating system requirements are different from those for vSphere client .
Server Hardware Requirements
- CPU – 2 CPUs
- Processor – 2.0GHz or faster Intel or AMD processor
- Memory – 3GB RAM
- Disk Storage – 2GB
- Networking – Giga bit connection recommended
Server Software Requirements
vCenter XVP Manager Server requires a virtualization environment that includes the following components:
- vCenter Server 4.0 or 4.1
- One of the following supported versions of Microsoft Hyper-V:
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
- Windows 2008 (64 Bit) Hyper-V Core (including Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter Editions)
- Windows 2008 (64 Bit) Hyper-V Full (including Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter Editions)
- System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 or System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
vCenter XVP Manager Server installs on a physical server or in a virtual machine running one of the following Windows host operating systems:
- Windows XP Pro SP2
- Windows Server 2003 SP2
- Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2
- Windows Server 2003 64-bit SP2
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (Core and Full)
- Windows Server 2008 Standard (Core and Full)
- Windows Server 2008 Datacenter (Core and Full)
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 64-bit (Core and Full)
- Windows Server 2008 Standard 64-bit (Core and Full)
The host must also have Windows Remote Management (WinRM) v1.1 (installed separately on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, included in Windows Server 2008).
Client Hardware Requirements
- CPU – 1 CPU
- Processor – 266MHz or faster Intel or AMD processor (500MHz recommended)
- Memory – 200MB RAM
- Disk Storage – 1GB
- Networking – Gigabit connection recommended
Client Software Requirements
- vSphere Client 4.0 or 4.1
- vSphere Converter 4.0 (to support conversion of Hyper-V virtual machines to VMware virtual machines)
- One of the following Windows host operating systems:
- Windows XP Pro SP2
- Windows XP Pro 64-bit SP2
- Windows XP Pro SP3
- Windows Server 2003 SP2
- Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2
- Windows Server 2003 64-bit SP2
- Windows Vista SP1
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (Core and Full)
- Windows Server 2008 Standard (Core and Full)
- Windows Server 2008 Datacenter (Core and Full)
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 64-bit (Core and Full)
- Windows Server 2008 Standard 64-bit (Core and Full)
- .NET framework 2.0
- PowerShell 1.0
- SCVMM 2008 Admin Console or SCVMM 2008 R2 Admin Console (to support importing Hyper-V inventory information from SCVMM)
- Management of the following Microsoft Hyper-V platforms:
- Familiar vCenter Server graphical user interface for navigating through and managing non-vSphere inventory
- Ease of virtual machine migrations from non-vSphere hosts to vSphere inventory
- Compatible with VMware vCenter Server 4.0 & 4.1
- Scalable up to management of 50 non-vSphere hosts
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