System Requirements: VMware ESX Hosts

vCenter Server:

For System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager:

• VMware vCenter Server 4.1
  
  

For VMM in System Center 2012 SP1:

• VMware vCenter Server 4.1
  
  
• VMware vCenter Server 5.0
  
  
• VMware vCenter Server 5.1
  
  

For more information about the requirements for vCenter Server, refer to the VMware product documentation.

Virtual machine hosts and host clusters that run any of the following versions of VMware:

For System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager:

• ESXi 4.1
  
  
• ESX 4.1
  
  
• ESXi 3.5
  
  
• ESX 3.5
  
  

For VMM in System Center 2012 SP1:

• ESXi 5.0
  
  
• ESXi 5.1
  
  
• ESXi 4.1
  
  
• ESX 4.1
  
  

The host or host clusters must be managed by a vCenter Server, which is managed by VMM.