WebSphere Virtual Enterprise (formerly Operations Optimization), Version 6.1
             Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows, z/OS


Supported server virtualization environments

Before you deploy WebSphere® Virtual Enterprise on virtualized servers, you must understand the limitations for the server virtualization platform that you are using.

Remember: This page 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

VMware ESX Version 3.5

Shared and dedicated modes are supported for VMware ESX, but you must configure WebSphere Virtual Enterprise to communicate with the VMware ESX hypervisor or the VMware VirtualCenter that is in control of the hypervisors where WebSphere Virtual Enterprise is running.
AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1 on POWER (Micro-Partitioning)
  • Using logical partitions (LPARs) in uncapped mode with shared resource pools is not supported for the traffic management and application infrastructure virtualization features of WebSphere Virtual Enterprise. See Supported features with AIX Micro-partitioning for a list of features that are supported in uncapped mode.
  • With Version 6.1.0.5 or later, no additional interim fixes are required. If you are using Version 6.0.2.4, 6.1.0.2, 6.1.0.3, or 6.1.0.4, apply the interim fix for APAR #PK74519.
Dedicated and shared.
Linux on POWER (Micro-Partitioning) None for dedicated. Dedicated.
Linux on z/VM
  • The guest operating system must be RHEL 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 or SLES 10.
  • Mapping a Linux on zSeries operating system image to a physical logical partition (LPAR): WebSphere Virtual Enterprise can balance workload across multiple z/VM virtual machines that are running Linux as the guest operating system. However, it does not have knowledge of the LPAR that is hosting the virtual machines on the z/VM image and is therefore unable to make workload balancing decisions based on the workload at the LPAR level.
  • Service policy goals: Workload that is not under the control of WebSphere Virtual Enterprise might be running on other Virtual Machines on the same z/VM image. This workload might affect service policy goals.
Dedicated and shared.
Solaris Operating Environment 10 on Sun (Zones) None for dedicated. Dedicated.
HP-UX 11i v3 on HP using Virtual Partitions (vPars) or Integrity VMs Currently not supported. None.
Linux Xen Currently not supported. None.
Microsoft Hyper-V Currently not supported. None.
Table 2. Supported features with AIX Micro-partitioning
Feature Supported in a capped partition Supported in an uncapped partition
Service policies Yes (with Version 6.1.0.5 and later or APAR #PK74519 applied) No
Differentiate service Yes (with Version 6.1.0.5 and later or APAR #PK74519 applied) No
CPU overload protection Yes (with Version 6.1.0.5 and later or APAR #PK74519 applied) No
Memory overload protection Yes Yes
Dynamic clusters (application placement) Yes (with Version 6.1.0.5 and later or APAR #PK74519 applied) No
Application lazy start Yes (with Version 6.1.0.5 and later or APAR #PK74519 applied) No
Application isolation or co-location policies Yes (with Version 6.1.0.5 and later or APAR #PK74519 applied) No
Weighted least outstanding request load (WLOR) routing Yes (with Version 6.1.0.5 and later or APAR #PK74519 applied) No
Dynamic weights Yes (with Version 6.1.0.5 and later or APAR #PK74519 applied) No
Monitoring according to service goals Yes (with Version 6.1.0.5 and later or APAR #PK74519 applied) No
Real-time charting Yes (with Version 6.1.0.5 and later or APAR #PK74519 applied) No
Performance data logging Yes (with Version 6.1.0.5 and later or APAR #PK74519 applied) No
Chargeback logging Yes (with Version 6.1.0.5 and later or APAR #PK74519 applied) No
Multi-cluster routing policies Yes Yes
Custom routing rules Yes Yes
Application edition aware routing Yes Yes
Customizable edition routing rules Yes Yes
Atomic edition rollout Yes Yes
Edition rollout with a server start or stop Yes Yes
Edition rollout with an application start or stop Yes Yes
Health management Yes Yes
Custom health policies Yes Yes
Custom health policy action plans Yes Yes
Task management Yes Yes
Task management event logger Yes Yes
Operations view Yes Yes
Operational alerts Yes Yes
High availability (HA) deployment manager Yes Yes
Centralized installation manager Yes Yes
Maintenance mode Yes Yes
Manage BEA WebLogic servers Yes Yes
Manage Apache Tomcat servers Yes Yes
Manage JBoss servers Yes Yes
Manage Geronimo servers Yes Yes
Manage generic servers Yes Yes
Manage WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers Yes Yes
Automatically discover WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers Yes Yes
Install WebSphere Application Server Community Edition applications Yes Yes



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