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
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