vCenter on Linux & Cross Platform Client
Posted by ratatouille - on February 28th, 2009 in Announcement, Virtualization | 3 Comments »
For those who missed VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas hope this piece of info will trigger some excitement. Under the “Explore Technology & Architecture” category Breakout Session #TA3201 : Linux Strategy & Roadmap outline some interesting stuff for those pure Open Source or Linux house. It will definitely a good news if you plan or already virtualize with VMware. As most of us know the “legacy” VirtualCenter or the new name to be release vCenter required to have a AD or MS server in house to manage VI3 & ESX.
Beside OS dependancy it also require a database which currently so sad only work with Oracle or MSSQL. During TA3201 session under “Linux Initiatives“ mentioned vCenter will have a Linux appliance version as well as a Cross Platform Client. As follow are some highlight what’s is in the vCenter Linux appliance. The interesting part is there is no mention whether it will support OpenSource databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
I am really interested to know & looking forward for the release.
Tags: Database, Linux, SQL, VC, virtual center
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To make cost effective, vCenter should go for MYSQL or PostgreSQL database.
Agree, as we do not require an expensive DB solution to manage the virtual center. All he vCenter doing is to manage and even it require a reboot or rebuild, it does not impact much to the production
I had a quick chat with Linux vCenter develper at VMworld Europe. vCenter Server requires good transactional support from backend database so MySQL is out of question because their transactional database engine (InnoDB) is owned by Oracle. Oracle is not very friendly towards VMware with their licensing, you have to license Oracle for EVERY PHYSICAL CORE in your ESX host even Oracle VM would be using single vCPU. Thus VMware is going to avoid use of Oracle in any way possible.
According to developer they have plans to ship vCenter Server appliance with embedded DB2 since it has support for everything they need with VM friendly license.
PostgreSQL support is planned but it may not ship with initial release.
Please bear in mind that anything above is not officially confirmed by VMware, so standard disclaimer applies that it may or may not ship like this.