Environment
PlateSpin PowerRecon 3.2
Situation
PowerRecon 3.2 - Platform Availability Matrix
PowerRecon Server
Supported OS
Microsoft Windows 2003 (SP0, SP1, SP2) - English , French and German
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server (SP4) - English only
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server (SP4) - English only
Note: PlateSpin does not support 32-bit emulation mode (also known as "compatibility mode") on 64-bit Operating Systems
PowerRecon 3.2 only supports running in VMware virtual machines
Supported Databases
Postgre SQL 8.2
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (SP3a+)
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Processor, Memory and Disk Requirements for 1 to 250 servers
2 GB memory
Physical Machines: Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz with hyperthreading or better
Virtual Machines: 1 vCPU
20 GB Free Disk Space*
Processor, Memory and Disk Requirements for 250 to 2000 Servers
4 GB memory
Physical machines: Xeon, 2.8 or 3.2 GHz dual core or multi-processor
Virtual Machines: 2 vCPUs
100 GB Free Disk Space*
* Note: Disk space requirements will depend on the number of servers being monitored and the duration for storing summary and raw utilization data. If using a SQL Server database which is on a remote server, ensure that there are 2GB of allocated space on that server. Disk space requirements are based on 30 days of monitoring. At least one CPU core per 750 monitored servers is recommended.
Scale Limits for running on a physical server
Number of inventoried workloads | 10,000 |
Number of monitored workloads | 2,000 |
Scale Limits for running in a virtual machine
PowerRecon 3.2 only supports running in VMware virtual machines
Number of inventoried workloads | 5,000 |
Number of monitored workloads | 1,000 |
PowerRecon Client
Supported OS
Microsoft Windows XP (SP2) - English only
Microsoft Windows 2003 (SP0, SP1, SP2) - English, French, German
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server (SP4) - English only
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server (SP4) - English only
Note: PlateSpin does not support 32-bit emulation mode (also known as "compatibility mode") on 64-bit Operating Systems
Processor, Memory and Disk Requirements
Minimum Processor - 1 GHz Pentium Compatible Processor
Recommended Processor - Pentium 4, 2.0 GHz
Minimum Memory - 512 MB
Recommended Memory - 1024 MB
Prerequisites
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Supported OS for Monitoring
Windows
Version | Patch Levels | 64-bit Support |
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, all editions | None, SP1 | Yes |
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server R2, all editions | No | |
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | SP2, SP3, SP4 | No |
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | SP2, SP3, Sp4 | No |
Microsoft Windows XP Professional | SP2 | No |
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server | SP4, SP6a with WMI installed - WMI Core version 1.5 required | No |
Linux
Version | Release | 64-bit Support | Kernel Version |
SuSE Linux | 9.2 | No | |
9.3 | No | 2.6.11.4-20a-default | |
10.1 | No | 2.6.16.21-0.25-default | |
Open SuSE | 10.2 | No | |
10.3 | No | ||
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server | 8 | No | 2.4.19-4GB |
8 SP4 | No | 2.4.21-278-smp | |
9 | No | 2.6.5-7.97-default | |
9 SP3 | No | 2.6.5-7.244-default | |
10 | No | ||
10 SP1 | No | 2.6.16.46-0.12-default | |
Red Hat Linux | 7.3 | No | 2.4.18-3 |
8 | No | 2.4.18-14 | |
9 | No | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS | 2.1 Update 6 | No | 2.4.9-e.57enterprise |
4 | No | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS | 2.1 Update 6 | No | |
3 | No | 2.4.21-4.ELsmp | |
3 Update 9 | No | ||
4 | No | ||
4 Update 4 | No | ||
4 Update 5 | No | ||
Red Hat Enterprise ES | 3 | No | |
3 Update 8 | No | ||
3 Update 9 | No | ||
4 | No | ||
4 Update 4 | No | 2.6.9-42.EL | |
4 Update 5 | No | 2.6.9-55.ELsmp | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | 5 | No | 2.6.18-8.el5 |
5.1 | No | ||
Fedore Core | 3 | No | |
4 | No | ||
5 | No | ||
6 | No | ||
Fedora | 7 | No | |
8 | No |
Solaris
Version | Hardware | 64-bit Support |
Solaris 7 | x86 & SPARC | No |
Solaris 8 | x86 & SPARC | No |
Solaris 9 | x86 & SPARC | No |
Solaris 10 | x86 & SPARC | No |
VMware
Version | Versions |
VMware GSX Server | 3.2 |
VMware Server | 1.1+ |
VMware ESX Server 2 | 2.5.3 |
2.5.4 | |
2.5.5 | |
VMWare ESX Server 3 | 3.0 |
3.5 | |
3i |
Microsoft Virtual Server
Version | Versions |
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 | Build 465 |
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 SP1 | Build 465.254 |
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 |