Running ZENworks Desktop Management 7 server on top of XEN virtualized NetWare

  • 7003531
  • 15-Jun-2009
  • 30-Apr-2012

Environment


Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management Support Pack 1 - ZDM7 SP1 IR3a
Novell Open Enterprise Server (NetWare 6.5) Support Pack 7
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 2
XEN virtualized NetWare


Situation

Symptoms

After a couple of days the Sybase inventory database can get corrupted with an error  message
"Assertion failed...."


Resolution

Running ZDM 7 on top of a XEN virtualized NetWare server is not a supported combination.

VMWare ESX is the only supported virtualization platform for ZDM 7:
https://www.novell.com/documentation/zenworks7/dm7install/data/bhgt3wy.html

Status

Reported to Engineering