4.1 of vSphere or ESXi? Most of what I'm seeing in my searches indicates vSphere.
-Mathew "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." - God; Futurama On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Matthew Barr <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >
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