Setting Up Reservation Manager › Prerequisites › Check Required Components

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Check Required Components

Verify that the following components are installed correctly.

Imaging

Depending on the operating environment, the Imaging component requires the following servers:

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Provides imaging functionality for Windows and Linux provisioning to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

CA IT Client Manager Server - OSIM Imaging

Provisions computers running Windows or Linux operating systems using the CA ITCM OS installation technology (OSIM), which also contains Software Delivery.

Solaris JumpStart Server

Provides imaging functionality for computers running Solaris operating systems. This component is only required if you provision Solaris operating systems.

Hyper-V SCVMM

The System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) provides functionality to deploy systems using templates and customization profiles for hardware and operating system options. Most sites have either Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware vCenter, but not both.

Note: Reservation Manager supports Hyper-V provisioning of Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 operating systems. Windows 7 and Windows Vista are not supported.

VMware vCenter Server

Provides functionality to deploy virtual machines using custom templates and specifications.

NIM Master Server

Provides imaging functionality for computers running IBM AIX operating systems. This component is required only if you provision IBM AIX operating systems. Multiple NIM Master Servers are supported. The NIM Master Server must be configured and system resources and resource groups must be created and configured on the NIM Master Server. The NIM Master Server must be registered with CA Server Automation.

AppLogic Grid Controller

Provides functionality to deploy and manage AppLogic applications and application templates.

IBM PowerVM (HMC/IVM)

Provides management and virtualization capabilities for IBM PowerVM logical partitions on AIX operating systems.

Software Delivery Adapter

The Packaging component that installs requested software to the servers allocated to fulfill a reservation request. Software Delivery is required to add software to existing servers.