Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-11 Thread Tom G. Christensen
On 10/09/13 18:52, John R Pierce wrote: On 9/10/2013 2:15 AM, Tom G. Christensen wrote: and has initscripts in /etc/init.d reminiscent of RHEL /etc/init.d is from ATT Unix System V I'm well aware of that, but I fail to see how it is relevant in this context since I doubt that is where

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-10 Thread Tom G. Christensen
On 06/09/13 19:33, John R Pierce wrote: On 9/6/2013 1:49 AM, Tom G. Christensen wrote: ESXi has a very limited unix userland environment which may or may not be based on RHEL. It's not really meant for general use and I have no experience with it. its not. from what all I've been able to

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-10 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/10/2013 2:15 AM, Tom G. Christensen wrote: and has initscripts in /etc/init.d reminiscent of RHEL /etc/init.d is from ATT Unix System V -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-06 Thread Tom G. Christensen
On 05/09/13 18:14, Scott Robbins wrote: On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 11:04:51AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:46 AM,m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And yes, I'm well aware that ESXi is a modified version of, mmm, is it still RHEL 3, or have they gone up yet? The linux components

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-06 Thread Vojin Urosevic
How about installing virtualbox with windows on your Linux laptop so that you can get to the vmware management console! vojin On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic cen...@plnet.rs wrote: Hi. On my new job we use VMware ESXi (Free version), but my colleagues use Windows on

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/6/2013 1:49 AM, Tom G. Christensen wrote: ESXi has a very limited unix userland environment which may or may not be based on RHEL. It's not really meant for general use and I have no experience with it. its not. from what all I've been able to tell, its a custom shell running in a BSD

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Vojin Urosevic v...@linuxusers.com wrote: How about installing virtualbox with windows on your Linux laptop so that you can get to the vmware management console! That (or KVM) will work, but you'll have to relicense the copy of windows after virtualizing even

[CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Hi. On my new job we use VMware ESXi (Free version), but my colleagues use Windows on their PC's. I am allowed to use CentOS Linux, but I have no prior experience with WMVare. I now (today) have to install CentOS 6.x minimal on that ESXi server, so I am trying to wrap my head around whole

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/4/2013 11:52 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: What should I install on my CentOS 6.x so I can access/manage ESXi server and manage it? Direct link or nice howto would help me immensely. When ever I search the net, I get how to install CentOS client (they mean guest) ON VMware. afaik, the

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Eero Volotinen
enable ssh on esxi and use commandline tools on esxi? -- Eero 2013/9/5 Ljubomir Ljubojevic cen...@plnet.rs Hi. On my new job we use VMware ESXi (Free version), but my colleagues use Windows on their PC's. I am allowed to use CentOS Linux, but I have no prior experience with WMVare. I

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread zGreenfelder
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:59 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 9/4/2013 11:52 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: What should I install on my CentOS 6.x so I can access/manage ESXi server and manage it? Direct link or nice howto would help me immensely. When ever I search the net,

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread zGreenfelder
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic cen...@plnet.rs wrote: course one way around that is to build a management VM with client software and use rdesktop when you need that sort of tool. I will try instaling client with wine. Thanks guy if you find some trickery that

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Joseph W. Joshua
Hi. On my new job we use VMware ESXi (Free version), but my colleagues use Windows on their PC's. I am allowed to use CentOS Linux, but I have no prior experience with WMVare. I now (today) have to install CentOS 6.x minimal on that ESXi server, so I am trying to wrap my head around

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Nux!
On 05.09.2013 11:01, Joseph W. Joshua wrote: Best way would be to install a windows VM in the server, then u can rdesktop into it to install your CentOS VM. Stupid vmware vsphere is the sole reason I'm using a windows VM on my centos (ahem, stella) workstation. Luckily we just moved all

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Nux!
On 05.09.2013 11:27, Nux! wrote: On 05.09.2013 11:01, Joseph W. Joshua wrote: Best way would be to install a windows VM in the server, then u can rdesktop into it to install your CentOS VM. Stupid vmware vsphere is the sole reason I'm using a windows VM on my centos (ahem, stella)

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 05:49:50AM -0400, zGreenfelder wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic cen...@plnet.rs wrote: if you find some trickery that makes that usable, I'd be curious to hear about it. I tried to go the wine route some time back, never got anything

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 06:52:30AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 05:49:50AM -0400, zGreenfelder wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic cen...@plnet.rs wrote: At one point, it would work, but not with https. 5.1 and up can have everything

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic cen...@plnet.rs wrote: Hi. On my new job we use VMware ESXi (Free version), but my colleagues use Windows on their PC's. I am allowed to use CentOS Linux, but I have no prior experience with WMVare. I now (today) have to install CentOS 6.x

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:19 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 9/5/2013 3:52 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: At one point, it would work, but not with https. 5.1 and up can have everything managed from the web browser--they're actually dropping the client, I believe, and having you do

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/5/2013 3:52 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: At one point, it would work, but not with https. 5.1 and up can have everything managed from the web browser--they're actually dropping the client, I believe, and having you do everything from the browser. With CentOS, (as opposed to Fedora) one

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:19 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 9/5/2013 3:52 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: At one point, it would work, but not with https. 5.1 and up can have everything managed from the web browser--they're actually dropping the client, I believe,

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 11:04:51AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:46 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And yes, I'm well aware that ESXi is a modified version of, mmm, is it still RHEL 3, or have they gone up yet? The linux components were just for the shell-level

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:46 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: but VMware ESXi 5.x is very crippled in its free configuration, with draconian limits on how much RAM is allowed before you have to start paying for licenses. I'd look at it the other way and say that the free version of ESXi, the

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote: And yes, I'm well aware that ESXi is a modified version of, mmm, is it still RHEL 3, or have they gone up yet? The linux components were just for the shell-level interaction and I think they are mostly gone now. In

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Jack Bailey
On 09/05/13 03:56, Scott Robbins wrote: Note that I haven't worked with the free version, this was paid version of ESXi 5.1, which I_think_ is the first one that VMware says should be run entirely from the browser, as opposed to a client. Like another poster, it was the one reason I kept a

Re: [CentOS] Help with VMware ESXi manager for CentOS - newbie level

2013-09-05 Thread Keith
On 06/09/13 02:14, Scott Robbins wrote: On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 11:04:51AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:46 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And yes, I'm well aware that ESXi is a modified version of, mmm, is it still RHEL 3, or have they gone up yet? The linux components