Supported Hypervisors and Platforms for Virtual Appliances
InstallAnywhere 2021
InstallAnywhere supports the creation of virtual appliances on VMware vSphere 5 and Amazon EC2.
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VMware vSphere/vCenter 5—VMware’s cloud computing virtualization operating system. Use this hypervisor to create a virtual appliance for an enterprise/private cloud. |
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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
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VMware vSphere 5/vCenter
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CentOS 6.2 and 6.3 (32-bit and 64-bit) |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 (32-bit and 64-bit) |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 (64-bit) |
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Ubuntu 13.04 (32-bit and 64-bit) |
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Ubuntu 12.10 (32-bit and 64-bit) |
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Ubuntu 12.04 (32-bit and 64-bit) |
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Ubuntu 11.10 (32-bit and 64-bit) |
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Amazon EC2
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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