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Who will be planning on deploying the VMware Appliance, as it now supports the same Hosts, and VM's as the Windows Install.
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Chris Nickl
i've actually been doing deployments for my customers for some time, and will continue to do so. It just works really nicely.
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Ather Beg
For me, the lack of MSSQL support is not great as a lot of companies have their resilient clusters and want to use it.
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Aline Menezes
Is the vcenter appliance now supporting plugins from 3rd party vendors like Netapp's VSC? Or even for SRM?
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Gerard Strouth
I would if it would ever support VUM
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Chris Nickl
@gstrouth i have heard that the new VUM will support the VCSA... again something i heard today.
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Chris Nickl
@amenezes0617 so that is up to the vendors just like it was previously.
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Gerard Strouth
@ck_nic I heard in a separate release after 6.0
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Aline Menezes
What about SRM?
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Chris Nickl
@gstrouth that very well may be the case. I've heard it both ways, however i tend to believe the separate release one.
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William Lam
@amenezes0617 afaik, those should be supported. @BenMeadowcroft can better comment on SRM, but solution just talks to VC regardless if its Windows/VCSA
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William Lam
@gstrouth not sure what you mean, You can use Windows VUM w/VCSA, that's worked since 5.x days :)
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Gerard Strouth
@lamw Yeah but if I need to have the server anyway why not just run vCenter on it as well
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Chris Nickl
@gstrouth the customer i'm working with now can't use the Windows Appliance due to security and other reasons. I still see a play for the VCSA.
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William Lam
@gstrouth your statement was whether VUM would be support it, which It does :) Also not everyone runs VUM on same VC, just depends
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Bryan Krausen
@amenezes0617 SRM 5.8.3 fully supports vCSA today.
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William Lam
Enhanced Linked Mode is a pretty cool feature in both Windows VC/VCSA for those that used ADAM based Linked Mode or wanted "poor mans" single pane of glass
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Gerard Strouth
@lamw Sorry meant as 1 appliance, yeah many use cases but for me having it together is a benefit
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William Lam
@gstrouth we hear you loud & clear :) Trust me, I'm with you on all this, something I mention to PM/Engr on a regular basis.
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William Lam
Some other cool enhancements is that new VCSA 6.0 has scripted install for automated deployments, much simpler to use!
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William Lam
I have a nice blog series on Automating VCSA 6.0 deployments in the coming weeks. Not only make deployments easier but also POC/Evals
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Chris Nickl
@lamw Mr. Lam, i greatly greatly look forward to it, as i have used a TON of your automation stuff.
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William Lam
@ck_nic Thanks! Lots more coming from me as well as VMware Engineering. VCSA is only going to get better and better!
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Burhan Halilov
@lamw I really hope it's not the ridiculous browser based install from the beta
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Chris Nickl
@7400N i actually hope it is, i like it better.
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William Lam
@7400N Nope, as I said "scripted install" = No GUI :) Accepts a nice JSON input & deploys VCSA + Configures. Supports Windows/Mac OSX/Linux. Yes, truly multiple platform!
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Ben Meadowcroft
@lamw @amenezes0617 yep, SRM supports VCSA and has done for several releases.