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  • 1.  Does ILMT/BigFix support vCenter Server 9 for VM Manager connections?

    Posted 12/10/25 11:03 AM

    Specifically, we have an existing ILMT installation on a Windows server currently connected to vCenter 8 for collecting virtual machine hardware data (CPU cores, memory, etc.). We need to know if this connection will work with vCenter 9 once we upgrade our infrastructure.

    If vCenter 9 is supported, please provide the minimum required ILMT/BigFix version.

    Thanks upfront.



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    Rene Bierey
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  • 2.  RE: Does ILMT/BigFix support vCenter Server 9 for VM Manager connections?

    Posted 12/10/25 12:00 PM

    Hello,

    BigFix version is out of concern.
    What matters is the version of VM Manager Tool (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/license-metric-tool/9.2.0?topic=managers-vm-manager-tool).


    Anyhow,
    vCenter 9 is not yet officially supported by the latest ILMT release (9.2.42).
    The latest supported version is VMware 8.

    However, accordingly to the latest VMware vSphere/vCenter Management SDK for version 9 it looks like the backward compatibility still holds.
    Thus, the existing VM manager connections should still be working after switching to version 9.



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    Thank you,
    Oktawian

    Oktawian Powązka, L3 Support
    IBM License Metric Tool
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  • 3.  RE: Does ILMT/BigFix support vCenter Server 9 for VM Manager connections?

    Posted 12/10/25 12:12 PM

    Thank you for your response. That is very helpful. So it should already be working at this point, even when vCenter version 9 is not officially supported yet.
    Is it possible to indicate which future ILMT release will officially support vCenter version 9? Is there a rough roadmap available?



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    Rene Bierey
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  • 4.  RE: Does ILMT/BigFix support vCenter Server 9 for VM Manager connections?

    Posted 12/11/25 05:15 AM

    Hello,

    Unfortunately no roadmap available yet,

    I strongly suggest to open an Idea (former RFE) to get such functionality covered in the feature:
    https://integration-development.ideas.ibm.com/?project=ILMT



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    Thank you,
    Oktawian

    Oktawian Powązka, L3 Support
    IBM License Metric Tool
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