Comments on: Installing vCenter on Linux Technical Preview

By: Rxcited

Rxcited — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:55:14 +0000

I ended up acquiring new hardware. I set up a new ESXi 5 cluster on th new harware, configured access to my VM storage (a NetApp using NFS) and easily fired my ESX 3.5 VMs up on the new cluster using the Linux based Virtual Center Server VM. I didn’t need to move anything, but I did need to fiddle with the NIC setups since the MACs changed.

Works great! So far, no problems at all. The new cluster is stable, vMotion and HA are working perfectly and my VMs are running better than ever (nearly twice the clock speed and gobs of cores and RAM compared to my old setup). I was never doing anything all that fancy with the old Virtual Center Server, so it is real nice to get it off Windows. Needed to stumble around a bit to get users setup since it is no longer using the Windows SAM to manage that. No big deal though. I recommend going to ESXi (on new parallel HW) for any small clusters out there.

By: bk

bk — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:17:29 +0000

+1 for mysql support

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:32:25 +0000

This is great news. Is it still going to support Oracle?
Will it lay down on a RHEL host?
Is the documentation going to be pre-released?
Do you have a link for both the documentation and where I can start funneling admins for training?
I am enthused about regaining the security in my infrastructure and look forward to putting this to the test for evaluation and feasibility of full scale deployment.

By: Brazen

Brazen — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:55:39 +0000

I’m just now getting ready to migrate to VMware 4, when I hear about VMware 5! A Windows-less stack is something I’ve been hoping for. Now I just wish VMware 5 was already released. I wanted to start on this today, but I guess it will be worth it to wait. It’s annoying that I have to have a Windows server around just for vCenter and I have to keep a Windows desktop just to run the client.

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:04:28 +0000

Go to vSphere 5!

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:56:38 +0000

What’s really funny is that this 2 1/2 yo thread was my first thought after reading the announcement.

Sadly my joy was severely muted by the VRAM tax that VMWare is imposing with vSphere 5. Though, if the web interface is good enough, the new windows-less management tools may just be enough for me to swallow the new licensing scheme.

By: Rxcited

Rxcited — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:53:22 +0000

Thanks Eric. Yay!

Do you see any problem to migrating from 3.5 directly to 5.x or is it needed to go from 3.5 to 4.x and then to 5.x?

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:42:56 +0000

vSphere 5, announced yesterday, has a fully-supported vCenter appliance that is based on Linux.

By: Rxcited

Rxcited — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:03:16 +0000

Well what’s the latest status? I am prepared to start migrating from ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4.x. I too would like to dump the Windows based vCenter VM. Is there a reliable, stable, easy Linux vCenter appliance available now?

By: MigrationKing

MigrationKing — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:54:54 +0000

After watching the way that Oracle treated the Open Source community and associated projects. I would definitely say focus on PostGreSQL primarily. Oracle is going to stomp all over MySQL. Let’s make this prediction. Oracle DB is profitable. MySQL has been leveraged into LAMP beyond imagination and drives many websites and projects. However, under the tutelage of Oracle, a developer or IT strategist or CIO would be a complete fool to bet on MySQL without realizing that either the platform will be completely destroyed through integration/migration and consolidation into something more “Oracle”. PostGreSQL is a reliable and stable platform that can really scale. It makes more sense at this point to focus efforts on PostGreSQL. However, then comes in the reality that we live in a hyper-connected world that “cloud-computing” and off-premises hybrid’s will become a norm and not an abnormal context within the next 3-5 years. Here an now is fine, but it needs to perform for the future and I am sorry. I think that MySQL definitely may not be a good option in the coming 3 years.