Support Matrix
Supported platforms and features in Red Hat CloudForms 4.5
Abstract
1. Introduction
This release of Red Hat CloudForms is delivered as a virtual appliance that includes the following key components:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3
- Rails 5.0.1
- Ruby 2.3.1
- PostgreSQL 9.5.4
- Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine (CFME) 5.8
- Apache 2.4.6
2. Supported Browsers
The following table outlines the browsers that are supported for viewing the Red Hat CloudForms web user interface.
Table 1. Supported Browsers
| Browser | Version |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Internet Explorer | 11 and over |
| Mozilla Firefox | Firefox Extended Support Release |
| Google Chrome | Chrome for Business. See Section 6, “Remote Console Support” for information on VMRC plug-in support. |
3. Platforms That Can Host Red Hat CloudForms
The following table outlines the platforms that can host the Red Hat CloudForms appliance.
Table 2. Platforms That Can Host Red Hat CloudForms
| Platform | Support Status |
|---|---|
| VMware vCenter Server 5.0 and above | Yes |
| Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.3 and above [a] | Yes |
| Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.1 [a] | Yes |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform (OSP) 9.0 and above (except OSP 11) [b] | Yes |
| Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 R2 or above | Yes |
| Microsoft Azure | Yes |
| Google Cloud Platform | Yes |
| Amazon EC2 | Yes |
| OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 3.5 | Technology Preview [c] |
[a]
See Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Life Cycle for product life cycle information.
[b]
See Red Hat OpenStack Platform Life Cycle for product life cycle information.
[c]
For more information, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.
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4. Provisioning Support
Red Hat CloudForms allows you to provision virtual machines, instances, and other resources in the providers that it manages. This section outlines the status of support for provisioning features on providers.
4.1. Infrastructure Providers
The following table outlines the status of support for provisioning on infrastructure providers.
Table 3. Infrastructure Provider Provisioning Support
| Feature | Microsoft System Center VMM (SCVMM) | Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) Manager | VMware vCenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provision Host | No [a] | No [a] | No [a] |
| Provision VM/Instance using PXE | No [a] | Yes | No |
| Provision VM/Instance using ISO | No | Yes | No |
| Clone from VM/Instance to VM/Instance | No | No | Yes |
| Provision from Template/Image to VM/Instance | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Provision from VM/Instance to Template/Image | No | No | Yes |
[a]
Available when using Red Hat Satellite with CloudForms.
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4.2. Cloud Providers
The following table outlines the status of support for provisioning on cloud providers.
Table 4. Cloud Provider Provisioning Support
| Feature | Red Hat OpenStack Platform (OSP) | Amazon EC2 | Microsoft Azure | Google Compute Engine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provision VM/Instance using PXE | No | No | No | No |
| Provision VM/Instance using ISO | No | No | No | No |
| Clone from VM/Instance to VM/Instance | No | No | No | No |
| Provision from Template/Image to VM/Instance | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Provision from VM/Instance to Template/Image | No | No | No | No |
| Orchestration Template Provisioning | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
5. Feature Support
Red Hat CloudForms allows you to perform actions on the providers that it manages, and provides features for interacting with and providing information about those providers. This section outlines the status of support for actions that you can perform on providers, and the CloudForms features that allow you to interact with those providers.
You can run a rake command to retrieve a list of provider features supported across all platforms. Run the following command in your CloudForms appliance to retrieve the supported features in a comma-separated values (.csv) file format, which are displayed on the command-line interface (CLI) by default, however, you can use a pipe to redirect the output to a file.
ruby /var/www/miq/vmdb/tools/feature_support_matrix.rb
5.1. Infrastructure Providers
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on infrastructure providers.
5.1.1. Red Hat Virtualization
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) infrastructure providers.
Table 5. Red Hat Virtualization Provider Feature Support
| Feature | RHV 4.0 | RHV 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | Yes | Yes |
| VM Drift Comparison | Yes | Yes |
| Track VM Genealogy | Yes | Yes |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes | Yes |
| Capture Cloud Layer Timelines | N/A | Yes |
| Capture VM/Instance Event Timelines | N/A | Yes |
| Discovery - Provider | Yes | Yes |
| Disk Addition to VM/Instance | Yes | Yes |
| Key Pairs Inventory | ||
| Key Pairs Management | ||
| Optimization - Bottleneck Identification | Yes | Yes |
| Reporting | Yes | Yes |
| Right Sizing | Yes | Yes |
| Chargeback | Yes | Yes |
| Remote Console VM Access | Yes [a] | Yes |
| Snapshot Creation and Removal | Yes | Yes |
| VM / Instance Compliance Enforcement | ||
| VM / Instance Policy Enforcement | ||
| VM / Instance Power Operations | Yes | |
| VM / Instance Retirement | ||
| Alerts - Real Time | ||
| Alerts - VM Value Changed | ||
| Alerts - Reconfigured | ||
| Integrate with Service Catalogs | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual Machine Reconfiguration | Yes | Yes |
| Volume Inventory | ||
| Volume Creation/Deletion | ||
| VM Migration | ||
| Automation Workflows | ||
| Customize Windows Templates with Sysprep during provision | No | No |
[a]
On some operating system and browser combinations
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5.1.2. VMware vSphere
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on VMware vSphere infrastructure providers.
Table 6. VMware vSphere Provider Feature Support
| Feature | vSphere 5.5 | vSphere 6.0 | vSphere 6.5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VM Drift Comparison | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Track VM Genealogy | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Capture Cloud Layer Timelines | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Capture VM/Instance Event Timelines | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Discovery - Provider | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Disk Addition to VM/Instance | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Key Pairs Inventory | |||
| Key Pairs Management | |||
| Optimization - Bottleneck Identification | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Reporting | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Right Sizing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chargeback | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Remote Console VM Access | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Snapshot Creation and Removal | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VM / Instance Compliance Enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VM / Instance Policy Enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VM / Instance Power Operations | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VM / Instance Retirement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts - Real Time | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts - VM Value Changed | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts - Reconfigured | |||
| Integrate with Service Catalogs | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual Machine Reconfiguration | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Volume Inventory | |||
| Volume Creation/Deletion | |||
| VM Migration | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Automation Workflows | |||
| Customize Windows Templates with Sysprep during provision | No | No | No |
5.1.3. Microsoft SCVMM
The following table outlines the status of support for Microsoft SCVMM infrastructure providers.
Table 7. Microsoft SCVMM Provider Feature Support
| Feature | SCVMM 2012 R2 | SVMM 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | Yes | Yes |
| VM Drift Comparison | Yes | Yes |
| Track VM Genealogy | Yes | Yes |
| Capacity & Utilization | No | No |
| Capture Cloud Layer Timelines | No | No |
| Capture VM/Instance Event Timelines | No | No |
| Discovery - Provider | Yes | Yes |
| Disk Addition to VM/Instance | No | No |
| Key Pairs Inventory | No | No |
| Key Pairs Management | No | No |
| Optimization - Bottleneck Identification | Yes | Yes |
| Reporting | Yes | Yes |
| Right Sizing | No | No |
| Chargeback | Yes | Yes |
| Remote Console VM Access | Yes | Yes |
| Snapshot Creation and Removal | No | No |
| VM / Instance Compliance Enforcement | Yes | Yes |
| VM / Instance Policy Enforcement | No | No |
| VM / Instance Power Operations | Yes | Yes |
| VM / Instance Retirement | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts - Real Time | No | No |
| Alerts - VM Value Changed | No | No |
| Alerts - Reconfigured | Yes [a] | Yes |
| Integrate with Service Catalogs | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual Machine Reconfiguration | No | No |
| Volume Inventory | No | No |
| Volume Creation/Deletion | No | No |
| VM Migration | No | No |
| Automation Workflows | Yes | Yes |
[a]
CPU and RAM reconfigure alerts only
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5.2. OpenStack Platform Director Infrastructure Providers
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on OpenStack Platform (OSP) director infrastructure providers.
Table 8. OpenStack Platform Director Infrastructure Provider Feature Support
| Feature | OpenStack Platform (OSP) Director |
|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | Yes |
| Nodes Inventory | Yes |
| OpenStack Services Inventory | Yes |
| Nodes Drift Comparison | Yes |
| Nodes Smart State | Yes |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes |
| Capture Infrastructure Event Timelines | Yes |
| Node Power Operation | Yes |
| Capacity Planning | Yes |
| Reporting | Yes |
| Add/Remove Node | Yes |
| Scale Down Node | Yes (Compute nodes only) |
| Scale Up Nodes | Yes (Compute nodes only) |
| Nodes Policy Enforcement | Yes |
| Nodes Evacuate | Yes |
| OpenStack Upgrade | No |
5.3. Cloud Providers
The following section outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on cloud providers.
5.3.1. Red Hat OpenStack Platform
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) cloud providers.
Table 9. Red Hat OpenStack Platform Feature Support
| Feature | OSP 9 | OSP 10 | OSP 11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | Yes | ||
| Instance Drift Comparison | Yes | Yes | No |
| Track Instance Genealogy | Yes | Yes | No |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes | Yes | No |
| Capture Cloud Layer Timelines | |||
| Capture Instance Event Timelines | |||
| Discovery - Provider | No | No | No |
| Disk Addition to Instance | |||
| Key Pairs Inventory | |||
| Key Pairs Management | |||
| Reporting | Yes | Yes | No |
| Right Sizing | |||
| Chargeback | Yes | Yes | No |
| Remote Console Instance Access | Yes | Yes | No |
| Snapshot Creation and Removal | |||
| Instance Compliance Enforcement | |||
| Instance Policy Enforcement | |||
| Instance Power Operations | No | ||
| Instance Retirement | No | ||
| Alerts - Real Time | |||
| Alerts - VM Value Changed | |||
| Alerts - Reconfigured | |||
| Integrate with Service Catalogs | Yes | Yes | No |
| Virtual Machine Reconfiguration | Yes | Yes | No |
| Volume Inventory | |||
| Volume Creation/Deletion | |||
| Instance Migration | |||
| Automation Workflows |
5.3.2. Amazon EC2
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on Amazon EC2 cloud providers.
Table 10. Amazon EC2 Feature Support
| Feature | Amazon EC2 |
|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | Yes |
| VM Drift Comparison | No |
| Track VM Genealogy | Yes |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes |
| Capture Cloud Layer Timelines | Yes |
| Capture VM/Instance Event Timelines | Yes |
| Discovery - Provider | Yes |
| Disk Addition to VM/Instance | Yes |
| Key Pairs Inventory | Yes |
| Key Pairs Management | No |
| Optimization - Bottleneck Identification | Yes |
| Reporting | Yes |
| Right Sizing | |
| Chargeback | Yes |
| Remote Console VM Access | No |
| Snapshot Creation and Removal | Yes |
| VM / Instance Compliance Enforcement | |
| VM / Instance Policy Enforcement | |
| VM / Instance Power Operations | Yes |
| VM / Instance Retirement | Yes |
| Alerts - Real Time | |
| Alerts - VM Value Changed | |
| Alerts - Reconfigured | |
| Integrate with Service Catalogs | Yes |
| Virtual Machine Reconfiguration | No |
| Volume Inventory | Yes |
| Volume Creation/Deletion | Yes |
| VM Migration | |
| Automation Workflows |
5.3.3. Microsoft Azure
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on Microsoft Azure cloud providers.
Table 11. Microsoft Azure Feature Support
| Feature | Microsoft Azure |
|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | Yes |
| VM Drift Comparison | Yes |
| Track VM Genealogy | Yes |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes |
| Capture Cloud Layer Timelines | Yes |
| Capture VM/Instance Event Timelines | Yes |
| Discovery - Provider | Yes |
| Disk Addition to VM/Instance | Yes |
| Key Pairs Inventory | No |
| Key Pairs Management | No |
| Optimization - Bottleneck Identification | Yes |
| Reporting | Yes |
| Right Sizing | |
| Chargeback | Yes |
| Remote Console VM Access | No |
| Snapshot Creation and Removal | No |
| VM / Instance Compliance Enforcement | Yes |
| VM / Instance Policy Enforcement | Yes |
| VM / Instance Power Operations | Yes |
| VM / Instance Retirement | Yes |
| Alerts - Real Time | No |
| Alerts - VM Value Changed | No |
| Alerts - Reconfigured | No |
| Integrate with Service Catalogs | Yes |
| Virtual Machine Reconfiguration | No |
| Volume Inventory | No |
| Volume Creation/Deletion | No |
| VM Migration | No |
| Automation Workflows | No |
5.3.4. Google Compute Engine
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on Google Compute Engine cloud providers.
Table 12. Google Compute Engine Feature Support
| Feature | Google Compute Engine |
|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | Yes |
| VM Drift Comparison | No |
| Track VM Genealogy | Yes |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes |
| Capture Cloud Layer Timelines | No |
| Capture VM/Instance Event Timelines | No |
| Discovery - Provider | No |
| Disk Addition to VM/Instance | Yes |
| Key Pairs Inventory | |
| Key Pairs Management | |
| Optimization - Bottleneck Identification | Yes |
| Reporting | Yes |
| Right Sizing | |
| Chargeback | Yes |
| Remote Console VM Access | No |
| Snapshot Creation and Removal | |
| VM / Instance Compliance Enforcement | |
| VM / Instance Policy Enforcement | |
| VM / Instance Power Operations | Yes |
| VM / Instance Retirement | |
| Alerts - Real Time | |
| Alerts - VM Value Changed | |
| Alerts - Reconfigured | |
| Integrate with Service Catalogs | Yes |
| Virtual Machine Reconfiguration | No |
| Volume Inventory | |
| Volume Creation/Deletion | |
| VM Migration | |
| Automation Workflows |
5.4. Container Providers
The following section outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on OpenShift Container Platform container providers.
Table 13. OpenShift Container Platform Provider Feature Support
| Feature | OCP 3.5 | OCP 3.6 | OCP 3.7 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| VM Drift Comparison | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Track VM Genealogy | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Capture Cloud Layer Timelines | |||
| Capture VM/Instance Event Timelines | |||
| Discovery - Provider | No | No | No |
| Disk Addition to VM/Instance | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Key Pairs Inventory | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Key Pairs Management | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Optimization - Bottleneck Identification | No | No | No |
| Reporting | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Right Sizing | No | No | No |
| Chargeback | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Remote Console VM Access | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Snapshot Creation and Removal | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| VM / Instance Compliance Enforcement | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| VM / Instance Policy Enforcement | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| VM / Instance Power Operations | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| VM / Instance Retirement | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Alerts - Real Time | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Alerts - VM Value Changed | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Alerts - Reconfigured | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Integrate with Service Catalogs | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Virtual Machine Reconfiguration | No | No | No |
| Volume Inventory | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Volume Creation/Deletion | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| VM Migration | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Automation Work Flows | No | No | No |
5.5. Network Providers
This section outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on network providers.
Table 14. Network Provider Feature Support
| Feature | Red Hat OpenStack Platform (OSP) | Amazon EC2 | Microsoft Azure | Google Compute Engine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Network Manager Relationships | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Relationship Discovery | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud Network Inventory | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud Subnet Inventory | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Network Router Inventory | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Security Groups | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Floating IP Addresses | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Network Ports | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Load Balancer Inventory | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Create/Update/Delete Network | Yes | No | No | No |
| Create/Update/Delete Subnet | Yes | No | No | No |
| Create/Update/Delete Routers | Yes | No | No | No |
5.6. Configuration Management Providers
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on configuration management providers.
Table 15. Configuration Management Provider Feature Support
| Feature | Ansible Tower |
|---|---|
| Groups Inventory | Yes |
| Configured Systems Inventory | Yes |
| Job Template Inventory | Yes |
| Integrate with Service Catalog | Yes |
| Automate Workflows | Yes |
- Red Hat CloudForms 4.5 supports Ansible Tower 2.4 as a configuration management provider.
- Red Hat CloudForms versions 4.2.1 and above also support Ansible Tower 3.0.
6. Remote Console Support
Red Hat CloudForms allows you to access the console of virtual machines and instances on the providers it managers using HTML5-based VNC consoles. This section outlines the status of support for remote consoles in Red Hat CloudForms.
For VMware vSphere providers, Red Hat CloudForms supports the versions of VMRC that VMware supports. However, VMware does not support VMRC for Mac operating systems. See VMware VMRC documentation for more information.
For all other providers, Red Hat CloudForms supports HTML5-based VNC consoles. The following have been tested with CloudForms Management Engine:
- Windows: UltraVNC 1.1.8.8 - http://www.uvnc.com/
- Linux/Mac: SSVNC 1.0.29 - http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ssvnc.html. At the time of this writing, this is the only client that supports the VNC repeater configuration.
As of 1 September 2015, new versions of Chrome no longer support VMRC consoles. VMRC requires NPAPI plug-in support. Chrome removed support for NPAPI plug-ins in version 45.0.2454, which was released on this date.
6.1. Providers
The following table outlines the status of support for remote consoles on providers.
Table 16. Provider Remote Console Support
| Provider | Status |
|---|---|
| VMware vSphere 5.1 | Yes |
| VMware vSphere 5.5 | Yes |
| VMware vSphere 6.x | Yes |
| Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.3 | No |
| Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 | No |
| Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 | No |
| Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6 | Yes |
| Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.1 | Yes [a] |
| Red Hat OpenStack 4 | No |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform (OSP) 5 | No |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 | No |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 | No |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 | No |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 | Yes |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 | Yes |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 | No |
| Google Compute Engine | No |
| Amazon EC2 | No |
| Microsoft SCVMM | No |
[a]
Supported in Red Hat CloudForms 4.2 and above only.
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6.2. Browsers
This section outlines the status of support for accessing remote consoles for virtual machines and instances on major operating system and web browser combinations.
Table 17. Browser Remote Console Support
| Operating System | Chrome | Firefox | Internet Explorer 11 | Internet Explorer 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A |
| Fedora 21 | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A |
| Fedora 22 | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A |
| Fedora 23 | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A |
| Windows 7 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
6.3. VMware Provider Console Support
This section outlines the status of support for accessing remote consoles for virtual machines on VMware providers.
Table 18. VMware Provider Console Support
| Console | Supported | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| VMRC | Yes | VMware is moving from a browser-based plug-in to a standalone application. For more information, see https://www.vmware.com/go/download-vmrc. |
| VNC | Yes | VNC is incompatible with VMware ESXi 6.5 and later. |
| WebMKS | Yes | WebMKS is incompatible with VMware ESXi 6.0 and earlier. |
| Cockpit | Yes |
Cockpit consoles are supported in Linux-based virtual machines where Cockpit server is installed and the |
7. Smart State Analysis Support
Red Hat CloudForms allows you to analyze virtual machines and instances on the providers it manages to collect information about the base operating system on those virtual machines or instances, their virtual hardware, installed applications, and other details. This operation is known as SmartState analysis. This section outlines the status of support for SmartState analysis of virtual machines and instances by guest operating system, file system, and by provider.
7.1. Guest Operating System
The following table outlines support for SmartState analysis of virtual machines by guest operating system.
Table 19. Guest Operating System SmartState Analysis Support
| Guest Operating System | Status |
|---|---|
| Windows 2000 | Yes |
| Windows XP | Yes |
| Windows Server 2003 | Yes |
| Windows Vista | Yes |
| Windows 2008 | Yes |
| Windows 7 | Yes |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 and above | Yes |
| Fedora | Yes |
| Debian and Debian-Derived | Yes |
| Ubuntu and Ubuntu Derived | Yes |
| Suse and Open Suse Derived | Yes |
7.2. File Systems
The following table outlines support for SmartState analysis of virtual machines by guest operating file system.
Table 20. File System SmartState Analysis Support
| File System | Status |
|---|---|
| Ext3 | Yes |
| Ext4 | Yes |
| FAT32 | Yes |
| ISO9660 (CDFS) | Yes |
| NTFS | Yes |
| XFS | Yes |
7.3. Infrastructure Providers
The following table outlines support for SmartState analysis of virtual machines by infrastructure provider.
Table 21. Infrastructure Provider SmartState Analysis Support
| Infrastructure Provider | Status |
|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.2 and below (prior to 3.3) | Technical Guidance [a] |
| Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.3 | Technical Guidance [a] |
| Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 | Yes |
| Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 | Yes |
| Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6 | Yes |
| Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.1 | Yes [b] |
| VMware vCenter 4.x | Technical Guidance [a] |
| VMware vCenter 5.0 | Yes |
| VMware vCenter 5.1 | Yes |
| VMware vCenter 5.5 | Yes |
| VMware vCenter 6.0 [c] | Yes |
| Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 R2 and above | Yes |
[a]
Technical Guidance, if available, is provided from the end of the General Support phase and lasts for a fixed duration. This phase is intended for usage by customers operating in stable environments with systems that are operating under reasonably stable loads.
[b]
Supported in Red Hat CloudForms 4.2 and above only.
[c]
To install the VMware VDDK 6.0 so that SmartState Analysis is successful, see Installing the Vmware 6.0 VDDK on a CFME Appliance. Alternatively, you can use VMware VDDK 5.5.
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For Microsoft SCVMM integration, Microsoft PowerShell version 4 is required.
7.4. Cloud Providers
The following table outlines support for SmartState analysis of virtual machines by cloud provider.
Table 22. Cloud Provider SmartState Analysis Support
| Cloud Provider | Status |
|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform (OSP) | Yes |
| Amazon EC2 | No |
| Google Compute Engine | No |
| Microsoft Azure | Yes |
For virtual machine instances running on Red Hat OpenStack Platform, CloudForms currently does not support SmartState analysis if an instance is booted from OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder volumes); it can only be performed when an instance is booted from an image.