VMWare ESX(i) runs on bare metal.  (  
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-ESX-and-VMware-ESXi-DS-EN.pdf  )
So you would not install Puppet on the same server (directly)

On Dec 3, 2013, at 8:30 PM, Felix Frank <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> No. Don't remove ESX. That's not was I was implying.
> 
> From your original inquiries, I was under the impression that you meant
> to deploy Centos VMs by whatever means and use puppet to configure their
> operating system.
> 
> Apparently, what you are attempting is the provisioning of the VMs
> themselves using puppet. Is that correct?
> 
> I don't know much about ESX. But I doubt the puppet agent is functional
> on this platform. There is little benefit to installing puppet for the
> sole purpose of deploying VMs, anyway. That is, puppet doesn't give you
> much more power or convenience than a custom script.
> 
> There's not much more advice I can dispense on this. Perhaps there is
> someone with more ESX knowledge on the list.
> 
> HTH,
> Felix
> 
> On 12/04/2013 12:48 AM, Dhanarajan Ponnurangam wrote:
>> Hi Felix,
>> 
>> Thanks again for your reply,
>> 
>> Please let me know if my understanding is right here,
>> 
>> 1. I need to install puppet agent as per
>> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html#for-red-hat-enterprise-linux-and-derivatives
>> <http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html#for-red-hat-enterprise-linux-and-derivatives>
>> in to my server hardware where ESX5.1 is installed ? Please let me know.
>> If yes, do I need to remove ESX 5.1 from the server hardware and install
>> a Centos and then do the above puppet agent installation ? Sorry if any
>> of these questions are trivial and stupid as I am totally new to puppet
>> and vmware world.

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