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Welcome to the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux Technology Program posted: Feb 22, 2009 11:16 AM

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Rahul_VMware
25 posts since
Jun 26, 2007

Hello,

Welcome to the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux Technology
Program! Your involvement in this early testing is an important part of the
release process, and your timely and thorough feedback is critical to the
success of the program and to the release.

As part of this technology
preview, we expect you to deploy and test several areas of the product. We look
upon you to help guide our final strides towards shipping a rich, mature and
high quality product. We appreciate your commitment to participate in the
technology preview program and to actively provide us with your valuable product
feedback.

Getting Started:
Please refer to the documentation that is
posted in the portal. One of the important things with this technology preview
is that we are shipping it as a Virtual Appliance (OVF, standard)
format. Please note that some functions supported on vCenter 2.5 on Windows are not supported on this release. Please refer to the documentation for details on these caveats and installation instructions.

Thank you very much for
participating in the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux technology preview
program. We look forward to your feedback! Our team will be closely monitoring
and actively participating in this discussion forum so please post any
issues/feedback you may have in this forum.

Thank you,

The VMware Team

Re: Welcome to the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux Technology Program

1. Feb 23, 2009 7:18 AM in response to: Rahul_VMware
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lamw
3,508 posts since
Nov 27, 2007
Great to hear we finally we can get vCenter running on Linux! I just finished downloading the OVF and will give it a spin today as time permits.

I did noticed a small discrepancy between the Annotations of the vApp that states "VC 2.5 running on CentOS 5.0" but the GuestOS is being identified as SUSE Ent 32bit? In any case, it is running CentOS 5.0 as I boot the vApp, was there any reason this was selected over say RHEL (lighter footprint)? VIMA as you may or may not know run's on RHEL, is this a hint that future vApp's by VMware will run on CentOS

The import went into a ESX 3.5u3

Update: Looking over the requirements, we don't have an Oracle instances running, it would be nice to have this supported on MySQL which I'm sure will be a popular request amongst other databases.

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--William
VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/

Re: Welcome to the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux Technology Program

2. Feb 23, 2009 8:50 AM in response to: lamw
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nigelm
1 posts since
May 29, 2007

I guess its running Centos because that allows them to freely distribute the OS, whereas using RHEL would impose licensing requirements. Centos is binary compatible with RHEL, although I'd be disappointed that they are using 5.0 as that is missing 18 months of updates compared to 5.3.

As far as databases go, Oracle is just about a deal breaker for us. By preference would go for Postgres.


Re: Welcome to the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux Technology Program

3. Feb 23, 2009 2:20 PM in response to: Rahul_VMware
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johnwilk
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Nov 7, 2006
I've got vCenter up and running with Oracle 10g running on SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 9. Supercool... :8}

Re: Welcome to the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux Technology Program

4. Feb 24, 2009 1:47 AM in response to: Rahul_VMware
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Erik Zandboer
727 posts since
Jun 11, 2007
Looking at this solution I was hoping to be able to download the OVF, and play around with it. No such luck. Oracle is a requirement?? So first we get rid of Windows, but now we have a new requirement: Oracle. Being an organization without any knowledge of Oracle databases, this makes it totally useless for us. If I want to look at vCenter for Windows, I just next-next-finish and get a free database ready to go for at least a testdrive or even for production use (if the environment is not too big). Why is this not the case with this appliance? Especially being an appliance: the motto has always been that appliances are hassle-free ready-to-go VMs. The moment the term Linux fell, the complexity shot up. That should not have been neccesary in my opinion.

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Re: Welcome to the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux Technology Program

5. Feb 24, 2009 5:19 AM in response to: Rahul_VMware
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davidhaase
52 posts since
Apr 15, 2008

Good things come to those who wait....

I'm curies how it will work. I'd also appreciate if MySQL & Co would be supported.
But first things first. ;-)


    • Pedo mellon a minno --

Re: Welcome to the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux Technology Program

6. Feb 25, 2009 12:20 PM in response to: Rahul_VMware
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hicksj
1,250 posts since
May 6, 2005

Been looking forward to seeing a vCenter vApp since VMworld 2008's announcement.

Couple notes:

  • Oracle. I will probably be one of the few to NOT complain about this. That's fantastic and makes sense. No change of code on the back end, so now everyone can run vCenter & database on Linux. However,

  • VI Client - still no linux-based VI Client. At least, not according to the docs.

  • No LDAP support. Only NIS right now.

  • No <insert your favorite VC helper plugin> support. No update manager. No converter enterprise.

At least its a first step...

Re: Welcome to the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux Technology Program

7. Feb 26, 2009 2:08 AM in response to: hicksj
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Krax
51 posts since
May 27, 2008

Finally....!!

In linux we trust.... :-)

Thank you Lord VMware !!


Re: Welcome to the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux Technology Program

8. Feb 26, 2009 7:54 AM in response to: davidhaase
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adyoung
5 posts since
Jan 19, 2009
Thanks for your interest. We've had that question a lot. We are evaluating Database options.We will in the future have a completely free database to bundle with the product, but are still discussing which that will be.

Re: Welcome to the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux Technology Program

9. Feb 26, 2009 11:51 AM in response to: nigelm
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plaurent
4 posts since
Jun 14, 2005
There is EnterpriseDB... their PostGres Plus Advanced Server offers out-of-the-box compatilbility with Oracle server, but at a lower price point.

Re: Welcome to the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux Technology Program

10. Feb 26, 2009 12:37 PM in response to: adyoung
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jhardman
36 posts since
Jul 15, 2006
adyoung wrote:
Thanks for your interest. We've had that question a lot. We are evaluating Database options.We will in the future have a completely free database to bundle with the product, but are still discussing which that will be.

Supporting other DB platforms will be critical for adoption in the SMB space. Personally my first choice would be MySQL, which at least can be "upgraded" to a fully supported enterprise ready DB. Postgres is also an option.

Re: Welcome to the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux Technology Program

11. Feb 27, 2009 1:58 PM in response to: jhardman
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Texiwill
10,432 posts since
Jan 13, 2004
Hello,

I just made the necessary changes to the SQL statements to create the database on MySQL and hooked up the ODBC client, etc as well, just to find out that the VPXD daemon actually checks for a database type and if it is no Other, Oracle, MSSQL, or PostgreSQL it fails.

If you add MySQL into that I will gladly finish testing this and if it works! this is goodness. You can have the work.


Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009
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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.
Blue Gears and SearchVMware Pro Blogs -- Top Virtualization Security Links -- Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast

Re: Welcome to the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux Technology Program

12. Feb 27, 2009 6:26 PM in response to: Texiwill
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Texiwill
10,432 posts since
Jan 13, 2004
Hello,

Also working on PostgreSQL as an alternative...


Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009
====
Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.
Blue Gears and SearchVMware Pro Blogs -- Top Virtualization Security Links -- Virtualization Security Round Table Podcast

Re: Welcome to the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux Technology Program

13. Mar 2, 2009 2:59 AM in response to: Rahul_VMware
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MCosta-PT
2 posts since
Jul 11, 2007
Waiting/wishing Linux VI Client .....

"... At least its a GOOD first step..."

Re: Welcome to the VMware vCenter Server 2.5 for Linux Technology Program

14. Mar 2, 2009 7:40 AM in response to: Texiwill
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adyoung
5 posts since
Jan 19, 2009
Unfortunately, the amount of Database specific code embedded in the product itself prohibits us from doing that. We have C++ classes that perform different behavior depending on Database features.


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