I have a VMware install with the SVM's holding all other roles besides SDC.  These SVM's are Suse 11.3.  Now moving to a 5 node cluster I wanted to add an MDM as a standalone physical server outside of the VMware servers.  Suse 11.3 is no longer available for download so I downloaded Ubuntu 14.04. 

Is this mismatch of Linux distro's supported especially in the gateway?

I ask because it seems the Gateway won't run the 5 node install of the additional components because it is trying to use root and the password which is fine with Remote login as root on Suse but prohibited in Ubuntu.  I manually installed the LIA on the Ubuntu server as well to rule out the bad password error coming from LIA.

If this isn't going to work, is it going to work if I use Suse 12.0 mixxed with 11.3 for existing components.

It seems there is no clear requirements docs on mixed component environments.