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• All hosts within a cluster must be homogenous. The CPUs must be of the same type, count, and
feature flags.
Hosts have additional requirements depending on the hypervisor. See the requirements listed at the
top of the Installation section for your chosen hypervisor:
• Chapter 8, Installing XenServer for CloudPlatform
• Chapter 10, Installing VMware for CloudPlatform
• Chapter 9, Installing KVM for CloudPlatform
• Chapter 12, Installing Oracle VM (OVM) for CloudPlatform
Warning
Be sure you fulfill the additional hypervisor requirements and installation steps provided in this
Guide. Hypervisor hosts must be properly prepared to work with CloudPlatform.
5.3.3. Hypervisor Compatibility Matrix
Find your CloudPlatform version number in the top row of the table, then look down the column to see
which hypervisor versions you can use.
You can find an additional presentation of this information on the Citrix Knowledge Base at http://
support.citrix.com/article/CTX134803.
5.3.3.1. CloudPlatform 4.x
4.2.0
XenServer 6.2 with fresh CloudPlatform
installation
Yes
XenServer 6.2 with CloudPlatform upgraded
from previous version
No
XenServer 6.1.0 Yes
XenServer 6.0.2 Yes
XenServer 6.0.0 No
XenServer 5.6 SP2 Yes
XenServer 5.6 FP1 Yes
KVM (RHEL 6.2 or 6.3) Yes
KVM (RHEL 6.0 or 6.1) No
KVM (RHEL 5.x) No
VMware ESX 5 and vCenter 5.1 Yes
VMware ESX 5 and vCenter 5.0 (both 5.0.1
Update B)
Yes
VMware ESX 4.1 and vCenter 4.1 No