We're using ESXi 4.1, and it does give the option for RHEL 6 when creating VMs. I have not created any myself nor have I tried cloning, but at least it's a start.
❧ Brian Mathis On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Mathew Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: > 4.1 of vSphere or ESXi? Most of what I'm seeing in my searches indicates > vSphere. > > -Mathew > > 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... >> >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ 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/
