>From what I remember, they added RHEL 6 in 4.1 or so. It might have been added in 4.0.1, though...
Sent from my iPad On Jun 28, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Mathew Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: > Our virtual platform is currently hosted with a company that strangely still > uses ESXi 4.0. We have the ability to install RHEL5 from their supplied > templates and can make copies of existing VMs with customization such as > hostname and IPs; things one would expect a robust hypervisor to support. > Unfortunately, this support is not extended to RHEL6. We can make identical > copies and then modify them to the configuration we need, but the > modifications aren't made during the copy. > > Needless to say, this adds overhead and time to the creation of new VMs. It's > faster to just create blank VMs and kickstart them. Our kickstart solution is > only half of what it could be, though. > > We are in the planning stages of a move to a more dedicated stack of hardware > with the wonderful upgrade to...wait for it...ESXi 4.1. I don't have a great > deal of VMware experience, but I suspect that a minor version number isn't > going to introduce the functionality that we are looking for. Am I correct in > this assumption? > > The deployment of a proper kickstart solution rests in the knowledge I'm > provided here. I don't want to spend time designing a solution that will > never be used if 4.1 supports proper RHEL6 VM copies. However, if it doesn't, > I need to get in gear and get that solution in place sooner rather than later. > > -Mathew > > "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." > - God; Futurama > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
