October 1, 201312 yr The management utility vSphere is no longer supported on free ESXi 5.5 http://www.tinkertry.com/best-parts-of-vmwares-esxi-5-5-free-hypervisor-rely-on-vcenter-which-isnt-free-uh-oh/ How will this affect your plans to migrate to 5.5? Will you stay at a previous version of ESXi? If so which one?
October 1, 201312 yr How will this affect your plans to migrate to 5.5? Knocked firmly on the head - thanks for the heads up! Will you stay at a previous version of ESXi? If so which one? 5.1..
October 1, 201312 yr if you dont upgrade your VM's to Version 10 and just upgrade esxi to 5.5, it works fine. you can still manage your VM's through vsphere client, it's just that esxi 5.5 feature may not be available for those using vsphere. I recently upgraded to esxi 5.5 and have been using vsphere fine. I just wanted to make that clear. cause 'vSphere is no longer supported' kinda sounds like you can't use vsphere for esxi 5.5 at all, which is not true. Edit: I think what we as in unraid user need to worry about is more of this Devices deprecated and unsupported in ESXi 5.5 (2056935) (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2056935) rather than vsphere client. Some RAID and SATA controllers that people use on this site is on this list and this may affect some unraid users.
October 1, 201312 yr there is a vSphere 5.5 client available when you download the ESXi 5.5 you can use it but get a warning that new advanced features of 5.5 is not available. I had setup a new ESXi5.5 for testing and used that just fine to create VM and manage it. not sure what features are not there as I only need the basic stuff :-) however what to stop VMWare to simply dump this support on the next revision?
October 1, 201312 yr Author And this one will only work for the 60 day trial period. Sent from my mobile
October 2, 201312 yr The basic version works fine i am not sure i will be doing any advanced management on it!
October 5, 201312 yr The basic version works fine i am not sure i will be doing any advanced management on it! Can you edit virtual machine settings in the basic version? That will be the key factor per my opinion.
October 5, 201312 yr The basic version works fine i am not sure i will be doing any advanced management on it! Can you edit virtual machine settings in the basic version? That will be the key factor per my opinion. As long as you don't create any VMs higher than version 8, yes you can. Sent from a mobile device, sorry for any typos.
October 5, 201312 yr Author Why would we care about VM version? Is there a benefit to version 10 for unRaid? Sent from my mobile
October 5, 201312 yr Why would we care about VM version? Is there a benefit to version 10 for unRaid? Sent from my mobile I second this question... Also, what benefit does v10 have over v8??
October 6, 201312 yr Why would we care about VM version? Is there a benefit to version 10 for unRaid? Sent from my mobile I second this question... Also, what benefit does v10 have over v8?? Probably not much of interest for most unRAID users. Virtual Machine Hardware Version 10 (vmx-10) - new components supported in the guest OS: -LSI SAS for Solaris 11 -New CPU architecture enabled -AHCI for SATA support (Advanced Host Controller Interface) -SATA as controller is supported on CD-ROM or Virtual disk -On ESXi, the IDE only is supported as a CD-ROM controller -Mac OSX don’t support IDE, so CD-ROM needs AHCI -Many guest OS support AHCI anyway -Up to 30 devices per controller with up to 4 controllers per VM (120 devices) Matrix of capabilities: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-789C3913-1053-4850-A0F0-E29C3D32B6DA.html
October 7, 201312 yr Author Why would we care about VM version? Is there a benefit to version 10 for unRaid? Probably not much of interest for most unRAID users. Much better news. Thanks. Sent from my mobile
October 7, 201312 yr Another thing 10 supports is RDM'ing > 2TB HDD (based on another post I read - I'm still on 5.0 personally). Normally not of much use for unRAID since most pass a controller through but could be of use if not.
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