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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/6336A237-6C6D-4E7F-B20D-808902BAD035%40comcast.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
