Intelligent Management: supported server virtualization environments for CPU metric policy

Before you deploy Intelligent Management on virtualized servers, you must understand the limitations for the server virtualization platform that you are using.

Remember: This topic lists the most up to date information on the support of various server virtualization platforms.
Table 1. Server virtualization environments
Virtualization platform Restrictions Supported processor sharing mode
AIX® 5.3 and AIX 6.1 on POWER5 and POWER6® (Micro-Partitioning®) None. Dedicated.
HP-UX 11i v3 on HP using Virtual Partitions (vPars) or Integrity VMs Currently not supported. None.
KVM in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 Specify 100% affinity to a set of CPU's. Dedicated.
Linux on POWER® (Micro-Partitioning) None. Dedicated.
Linux on z/VM® None. Dedicated.
Linux Xen None. Dedicated.
Microsoft Hyper-V Specify 100% affinity to a set of CPU's. Dedicated.
Solaris Operating Environment 10 on Sun (Zones) None. Dedicated.

VMware ESX 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0

VMware vSphere 4, 5

Guest CPU utilization reporting accuracy is dependent on the following:
  • Guest Operating System
  • Virtual Machine Reservation
  • Limit Settings
Dedicated.

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