Derek J. Balling wrote: >> c. The console client “vsphere client” is windows-only; you >> can’t manage your VM’s from a mac or linux > > True, but for our purposes, all of our Mac and Linux users have (Fusion, > VMWare Workstation) installed already so we install the vSphere client > inside the VM.
I live this way, too. I think it's nice to be able to run my vSphere in a Fusion VM, because the VM can VPN to the office as needed from home or while traveling, while I leave my Mac's network alone. >> d. Even though it’s supposedly RHEL, you can’t do normal linuxy >> things, like login and get a command prompt. You can’t do much more >> than just change your IP address. > > It was far far far too easy to shoot yourself in the foot in the Service > Console. Because it smelled like RHEL, and acted like RHEL, people > treated it like it WAS RHEL, and would happily go installing RPMs > willy-nilly to get a "Service Console" environment that they liked. This > was a bad thing. You can still do linuxy things like start/stop VMware services and even VMs. > It's best to think of ESXi as an appliance. I've had appliances, and I distrust them, so I learn the behind the scenes tools for CLI on just about everything. I find it's worth my time, and not just during crises. VMware ESX cli is reasonable as a backup for the graphical vCenter. > We buy our ESXi hosts as > largish blades (Dual-Nehalem, 96GB or 144GB of RAM), with no hard > drives, using the ESXi embedded from HP (which essentially ships with a > USB thumbdrive internally that hosts the ESX kernel on it). Once you > start viewing it as an appliance, life becomes more sane. We use IBM x3850 M2's with shared fiber attached storage (several varieties). The vMotion thing is _really_ worthwhile, both in automagic and manual modes. > I've long ago lost the feeling that I need to be able to rip into > something's guts and muck about with it. Once something gets as > rock-steady as something like ESX has become for us, I'm happy to never > look under the hood again. Unrelated to VMware: what's hidden under the hood cost us 41TB last weekend; we prefer to look whenever possible. No details this week, after action meeting is Weds. Allan _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
