Monday, November 10, 2008 8:32 PM
Brian S. Tucker
Support for SCCM on VMWare
While there has probably been some news about this in the last month, I wanted to give you Microsoft's "official" answer to the question, "Does Microsoft support SCCM on VMWare?".
Microsoft expanded application support on hardware vitalization environments for the products listed in this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957006. It states that the virtualization environments are as follows: · Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V · Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 · Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) The SVVP is defined here: http://windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx?svvppage=svvp.htm. It states that the Microsoft solution on the supported products above needs to be validated by the Microsoft, and that vendor participating in the program. VMWare is part of the SVVP (for VMware ESX 3.5 update 2) but customers will probably have to check with them as to whether SCCM SP1 (or R2) is a validated solution.
Filed under: SCCM 2007, System Center, SCCM VMWare Support