Thanks Andre. I know I can manage ESXi with VCenter (I'm debating whether to run it as a VM or on a workstation class machine - i don't have a server I can install it on) but there are a few features that seem to be missing in ESXi vs. ESX. For example I'd like to install the Dell OMSA utility - I was able to do this in ESX but when I tried this some time ago in ESXi I ran into a few snags even after I hacked SSH support into it.
I'd like to get this done prior to deploying VCenter for the reason I mentioned above and also because I have a Hyper-V server that I need to migrate machines from and then rebuild as an ESX server. I then plan to Deploy the VCenter server and build the cluster. This is probably backwards from the normal way to do this but I have a few network infrastructure issues to overcome before I can setup the Heartbeat/VMotion network and I didn't want to wait until I'd checked that task off before making progress on the Hyper-V to ESX migration.
Am just trying to create a consistent platform for the ESX servers so if I get hit by a bus someone else doesn't have to figure out what you can and can't do with the servers in the cluster... Hope this helps make my desire to run ESX on this box clearer.
I'll get to the reinstall now.
