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MatteoMarchetti
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‎11-04-2014 09:02 AM

Netware Novell on ESXi 5.5

Even it's not officially supported on ESXi 5.5, is anyone (successfully) runnin Netware Novell on it? Thanks.

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tschulin
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‎11-04-2014 10:04 AM

Yes, I'm using ESXi 5.5 in my lab and I've been running Novell Netware 6.0.5 (Support Pack 5 is necessary) for 2 months now. So far, no problems.

I'm running the old GroupWise 6.5 email application on the Novell Netware VM's until we migrate to Exchange 2013 in a couple of months.

MatteoMarchetti
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‎11-05-2014 02:17 AM

I'm running Novell Netware 6.5 sp6 and sp8, for yor experience can I be confident to move live services onto ESXi 5.5? Thanks again.

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tschulin
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‎11-05-2014 09:19 AM

I don't believe you will have any trouble using Netware 6.5 on ESXi 5.5. But, as always, you should test this in a lab environment first, if possible.

This may help with the confidence. I have already performed two live vMotions and Storage vMotions on the live Netware 6.0.5 OS's to two different hosts in the production environment  without any problem. It worked just fine.

I hope this helps you.

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