Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1 ESXi 5.5 support?

We are currently in a deployment of CPI 2.1 with a current ESXi 5.5 infrastructure. I cannot find any related documentation on the compatibility of this support. We also have ACS 5.5 to build on this as well.
Has anyone had any success building either of these two virtual appliances on ESXi 5.5?

Thanks guys,
I have had a response from the BU.
Here’s the quick and dirty (and not so good) – PI 2.2 is being tested with ESXi v5.5 and will officially be supported. According to the BU, there are no plans to test or support any earlier release with ESXi v5.5.
Also the current plan is to have ACS 5.6 be supported on ESXi v5.5.
ESXi 5.5 won’t be supported until PI 2.2, due out in November 2014. Until then, there are no workarounds. Some customers have installed the latest release (v2.1) on ESXi 5.5, but they run the risk of not getting supported should they encounter any issues with their instance.

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