A few people were discussing this the other day internally about why some VMs exported from vCenter to vCloud Director using vCloud Connector the OS type was displayed as Other Linux. When diving a bit deeper it turned out to be a Cent OS installation, which is not officially supported by vCloud Director. This made me think that maybe not everyone was aware of the Operating Systems supported by vCD. A lot of people believed if vCenter supported it so did vCloud Director, which is not the case, so I thought I would share the link to the published document and include the information here for quick reference.
To see the full list of supported Guest Operating Systems please click here.
Listed below is some of the highlights of the list.
Note: All Virtual Machine hardware is Version 7 unless specified.
Microsoft Windows 32-Bit Support
- Windows 7
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Server 2003, Enterprise, Datacenter, Standard and Web edition
- Windows Small Business Server 2003
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP Pro
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Windows 2000 Server
- Windows 2000 Pro
- Windows NT 4
Microsoft Windows 64-Bit Support
- Windows 7
- Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Server 2003, Enterprise, Datacenter and Standard Edition
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP Pro
Unix/Linux 64-Bit Support
- RHEL 5
- RHEL 4
- RHEL 3
- SUSE Enterprise 8,9,10,11
- Asianux 3
- Debian 4 & 5
- Ubuntu
- Other 2.6x Linux
- Other 2.4x Linux
- Other Linux
Unsupported Guest Operating Systems
- Windows 3.1
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Novell Netware 5.1 & 6.x
- FreeBSD (32bit & 64 bit)
- OS/2
- SCO OpenServer 5
- Sco UnixWare7
- DOS
- Other (32 bit & 64 bit)
For a full extensive list, please visit the VMware vCloud Director Online Library by following the link at the top of this page.
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