I think in one case the installer barfed, but they DBA team was able to hand-install some utility they needed. In another case it was a support issue I believe, but the stuff ran.
That actually was a bit ago, and may no longer be an issue... I'd just suggest you determine what your SW vendors will "formally" support in order to CYA. -sc From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows x64 under ESX Good to know. Do the tools not run properly in WoW64 or is it that they aren't "officially supported"? Jeff On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: We occasionally run in to some "support" issues on 64bit stuff. And some vendors *cough*oracle*cough* seem to have a hard time getting many of their support tools updated to run and be supported in WoW64 L But I think we've only built one 32bit VM in the last couple of years... -sc From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows x64 under ESX We have a couple of templates set up to quickly create Win 2003 VMs (Standard or Enterprise). It occurred to me, is there any reason to use the 32bit flavor any more? We're still on ESX 3.5, which supports 64bit. Are there any downsides I haven't considered? Drivers shouldn't be an issue on a VM, and I'm not aware of any application compatibility issues. Jeff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
