The HMC virtual appliance enables clients to host the HMC virtual appliance as a virtual machine (VM) in their existing virtual environments or to provide a dedicated virtualized environment for the HMC virtual appliance.
The hardware appliance HMC and the virtual appliance HMC function essentially the same. The HMC virtual appliance can be used to manage any of the systems that are supported by the version 8 HMC, which includes Power Systems servers with IBM POWER6, POWER7, and POWER8 processors.
Virtual HMC Appliance can be deployed in your existing x86 virtualized infrastructure. Virtual HMC supports the following hypervisors:
Note: The processor on the systems that host the Virutal HMC Appliance must be either an Intel VT-x or an AMD-V hardware virtualization-enabled processor.