Installation Instructions
Committed to the industry movement toward virtualization, we distribute our solutions as Virtual Appliances, eliminating installation, configuration, and maintenance costs associated with traditional deployment methods.
To take full advantage of our software, and be able to access it from any PC on your network, a free virtualization software from VMware should be installed on your computer. VMware software enables companies to partition a physical server into multiple virtual machines.
FreezerPro, ezColony, Sciency ELN and LIMS 247 Virtual Appliances can be installed on Windows or Linux servers. Please check the latest System Requirements.
Our goal is to provide VAs that run anywhere where is virtualization infrastructure available.
VMware Player | VMware Server | VMware Infrastructure | Other Virtualization Platforms
Tier 1
Fully supported.
| Virtualization Platform | Host Platform | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| VMware Fusion | Mac OS X | |
| VMware Player (Free) | Windows, Linux | |
| VMware Server (Free) | Windows, Linux | |
| VMware Workstation | Windows, Linux | |
| VMware ESX | Bare Metal | Use VMware Infrastructure Client (and converter) to run on ESX. |
| VMware vSphere | Bare Metal | Support coming mid-2009. |
| Microsoft Hyper-V | Windows |
Tier 2
Supported but with some limitations.
| Virtualization Platform | Host Platform | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Parallels Desktop | Mac OS X | |
| Parallels Server | Mac OS X, Bare Metal | |
| Parallels Workstation | Windows, Linux | |
| Microsoft Virtual Server | Windows | Virtual Server also has relatively poor performance compared to more modern virtualization systems. |
| Microsoft Virtual PC | Windows | Virtual PC also has relatively poor performance compared to more modern virtualization systems. |
| Virtual Iron | Bare Metal |
Tier 3
Known to work but not yet officially supported. You can run FreezerPro, ezColony, Sciency ELN and LIMS 247 on these platforms but our ability to provide assistance is limited.
| Virtualization Platform | Host Platform | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| VirtualBox | Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris | |
| Sun xVM Server | Bare metal | |
| Xen Open Source | Linux | This is relatively difficult to configure, depends heavily on the Linux distribution and requires running Xen in fully virtualized mode. |
| KVM | Linux | This works but is not something that we test regularly. |
| QEMU | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris among others | Works but since this is emulation performance is very poor. |
| Oracle VM | Linux | This is Xen based and we have heard of people using it but have never tested it. |
Tier 4 - Currently unsupported
Known to NOT work but will in the future.
| Virtualization Platform | Host Platform | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Citrix XenServer | Bare Metal | No suitable import format. It might be possible to use Project Kensho to use the OVF format for import but this has not been tested. |
| Parallels Virtuozzo Containers | Linux | This is a very different kind of system that we can't quite support yet. We are working on this and our goal is to support this platform at the Tier 1 level. |
| OpenVZ | Linux | This is the Open Source base of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers and will be supported at the same point we introduce Virtuozzo support. |
