PowerRecon 3.2 Platform Availability Matrix

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  • 26-Mar-2008
  • 26-Apr-2012

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