Can the software scout be deployed on a virtual machine?
It is not recommended to deploy the scout in a virtual machine to monitor your production environment. The scout is your most significant point of failure for your monitoring solution based on Command Center. Also, the scout is the only infrastructure investment that you need to make towards your Command Center solution. Usually, just one scout is sufficient to monitor a customer environment. Given that the hardware requirements for a scout are less than those for an average desktop PC today, saving costs on scout hardware is not recommended. For evaluation purposes, the scout may be deployed as a fully-virtualized Xen guest, VMware guest, or fully virtualized Qemu guest. In the case of VMware, installing the VMware tools can help address issues with the clock skew and hardware optimization on the guest. Please note that none of the virtual machine technologies are supported as the deployment platform for the scout. This is different from probe support for monitoring target virtual sys
