New in installing MDM 5.5 - How to proceed??

Hello all,

I have been assigned the task to perform an installation of SAP MDM 5.5 on a VM Ware Linux server. Before starting the planning , I am reading the MDM documentation adn I have couple of questions:

1. First of all , I do not need SAP Netweaver 2004 underneath the MDM Server , right?

2. According to MDM Master Guide:MDM 5.5 does not support VMWare ?? Any personal experience from you?

3. I am checking in the Installation Guide of MDM and no definite file system is proposed for the installation? Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Loukas