Another "Vsphere 5 Enhancement": resource pools removed from ESXi

[zoran4afc]

So, if you don't wan't to buy vCenter, you will not have resource pools any more.

I qoute:

Enhancement

  All resource pool settings are moved to VMware vCenter Server.

Reason

  An auto deployed VMware ESXi host cannot contain configuration settings or resource pool configuration.

Benefit

  The movement of settings to vCenter Server allows:

  - Auto deployed ESXi hosts to use resource pools

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BTW, you have to buy Enterprise+ licence to be able to use Auto deploy feature.

Regarding the "Reason": Even an auto deployed ESXi have at least unique management IP address. IP address is a configuration setting.

A standard switch (vSS) is also configuration setting. I didn't try, maybe someone is: can you configure a standard switch in an autodeployed ESXi?

If you can't, why should you can configure vSS in non-autodeployed ESXi?

Maybe we can expect in some future licensing scheme that a standard switch will be moved to vCenter also.

[Linjo]

Could you tell us some more about your usecase so we can take this into consideration for future releases / licensing?

// Linjo

[depping]

Don't know where these quotes came from and I don't get them... but anyway a Standard vSwitch works fine with auto-deploy. Auto-Deploy relies on host profiles to configure the ESXi hosts. So all settings you would normally set locally will be done via a host profile.

[roydfreeman]

This isn't true. Resource pools can *still* be configured at the host level. My understanding is that in vSphere 4, if you created host-based resource pools, their configuration was stored only on the host. In vSphere 5, the resource pool definition will be stored in the vCenter Server DB, but each host will still store the config too, just as standard switch definitions are pushed to the host.  Hosts must still be able to boot independently if the vCenter Server is unavailable, so these settings will be pushed to and stored locally on the hosts in vSphere 5.  And for auto-deployed hosts, the info needs to be stored in the vCenter Server DB, so that the host can be delivered its config on each reboot.  So my understanding is that both host-based and cluster-based resource pools still exist in 5.0.