The perceived wisdom in VMware circles is that the machine that handles your ESX server licenses and management virtual centre should be installed onto a normal server with a copy of a Microsoft OS installed.
In an effort to leverage ever last once out of my virtualized infrastructure , I decide the other day to install the network components of my ESX setup on a windows XP virtual image on my desktop. The installation went without a hitch, and once the license server was up and running I was able to log into the management software, via the virtual centre client without a hitch. Now this was on a quad core workstation, and I only used the built in SQL database for the management software instead of a full oracle or MSSQL database, but it is running extremely well with Ubuntu as the host operating system for VMware workstation.
I would not recommend this obviously for a large data centre implementation, but for testing or a small implementation this works a treat, and it also saves using another PC and Ubuntu is an excellent host for the setup.
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I'm doing something similar in OS X using Fusion for managing ESX, but I've also got a WinXP VM on the ESX server itself to manage vRanger Pro backups. Kind of amusing, since it backs up itself! Everything dumps off to a 4TB NAS.
Yes, it's funny once you really get into virtualization the possibilities become very interesting. I think my next step is to use a KVM virtual image to manage it , as I believe it will have more performance, I will see.
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