Supported virtualization environments
The following table lists the virtualization environments that are supported by IBM® Flex System Manager VMControl, and the tasks that are supported in each environment.
| Virtualization environment | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supported tasks | AIX® and Linux on IBM Power Systems™ in a virtualized environment 2 | IBM i on IBM Power Systems in a virtualized environment 1 | VMware vCenter and VMware ESXi managed by VMware vCenter | Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2008, Enterprise, Standard, and Datacenter x64 with Hyper-V role enabled | Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) |
| Create, edit, and delete virtual servers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Create, edit, and delete virtual farms | Yes 5 | — | Yes | — | Yes |
| Relocate virtual servers | Yes | Yes6 | Yes | — | Yes |
| Put hosts into maintenance mode and remove hosts from maintenance mode | Yes | — | Yes | — | Yes |
| Import virtual appliance packages | Yes | Yes | — | — | Yes |
| Capture virtual servers | Yes | Yes | — | — | Yes |
| Capture workloads | Yes | Yes | — | — | Yes |
| Deploy virtual appliances | Yes | Yes | — | — | Yes |
| Start, stop, and delete workloads | Yes | Yes | — | — | Yes |
| Create, edit, and delete workloads | Yes | Yes3 | — | — | Yes3 |
| Create, edit, and delete server system pools | Yes 4 | Yes4 | — | — | Yes |
| Create, edit, and delete storage system pools | Yes | Yes | — | — | — |
| Remote restart virtual servers | Yes | Yes8 | — | — | Yes |
- For IBM i systems that are managed by IBM Flex System Manager.
- For systems that are managed by IBM Flex System Manager or Integrated Virtualization Manager.
- This virtualization environment does not support encapsulating virtual servers into system pool management in group as workload.
- For systems capable of PowerVM® live partition mobility, with the ActiveMobility property set to True.
- Not supported for IBM Flex System Manager.
- Relocation of IBM i virtual servers is supported only for virtual servers that are running IBM i v7.1, TR4 PTF group SF99707 level 4, or later. The virtual server must be running on a POWER7® host that has firmware release 730.51 or later.
- The remote restart feature in IBM i virtual servers is only supported on virtual servers that are running IBM i v7.1, TR4 PTF group SF99707 level 4, or later. Additionally, the virtual server must be running on a POWER7 host that has a firmware release of 770, or later.
The following topics provide more information about the support and requirements for each of these virtual environments.