To set up vMA, you must have a VMware ESXi host. vMA runs a 64-bit Linux guest OS, the VMware ESXi host on which it runs must support 64-bit virtual machines.

The VMware ESXi host must have one of the following CPUs:

■	AMD Opteron, rev E or later
■	Intel processors with EM64T support with VT enabled.
■	Opteron 64-bit processors earlier than rev E
■	Intel processors that have EM64T support but do not have VT support enabled, and do not support a 64-bit guest OS.

For detailed hardware requirements, see the Hardware Compatibility List on the VMware Web site.

By default, vMA uses one virtual processor, and requires 3 GB of hard disk space for the vMA virtual disk. The recommended memory for vMA is 600 MB.