Supported Hypervisors and Platforms for Virtual Appliances

InstallAnywhere 2020

InstallAnywhere supports the creation of virtual appliances on VMware vSphere 5 and Amazon EC2.

VMware vSphere/vCenter 5—VMware’s cloud computing virtualization operating system. Use this hypervisor to create a virtual appliance for an enterprise/private cloud.
Amazon EC2—Part of Amazon.com’s cloud computing platform. Use this hypervisor to create a virtual appliance for the public cloud.

The following table shows the supported operating systems on these hypervisors.

Supported Platforms and Hypervisors

Supported Hypervisors/Cloud Infrastructure

Supported Operating Systems

VMware vSphere 5/vCenter

CentOS 6.2 and 6.3 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 (64-bit)
Ubuntu 13.04 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Ubuntu 12.10 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Ubuntu 12.04 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Ubuntu 11.10 (32-bit and 64-bit)

Amazon EC2

Ubuntu 11.10 32-bit
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit

Note that multi-tier virtual appliances can be deployed to VMware vCenter servers.

Note • You can obtain the ISO files for these operating systems from the vendors’ Web sites:

http://www.centos.org/ 

http://www.redhat.com/

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server