Pre-requisites

• The supported hypervisor in the On-premises Enterprise category is VMware ESXi.
• HC installation is not required on the ESXi host. It will communicate remotely with the bare-metal ESXi host.
• Software Requirements
  • Windows 2019/2016/2012/2008 Server with HC10 (This is the control server where HC10 and VMware-viclient & VMware-VIX API will be installed). This control server will remotely communicate with the bare-metal ESXi host.
• Hardware Requirements
  • VMware ESXi compatible server. This is the machine which will be used to provision VPS. However HC software itself will not be installed on this server. Intel Xeon 56xx Series or Intel Xeon 75xx Series. Click here for Compatibility Details.
• For the pre-reqs of ESXi 8.0 and later versions, see Pre-requisites for ESXi 6.5 and Later Versions.