Getting Started without vSphere

[Jonathan Fontanez]

Hi, 

    I was recently introduced to project serengeti at vmworld and I am very interested. However I was wondering if the project supported type II hypervisors such as fusion for the purpose of a local dev environment. If not are there any recommended solutions for dev environments without needing access to vsphere?

 

Thanks

[Jesse Hu]

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for your interests in Serengeti.

Currently our dev team uses vSphere vCenter 5.0 for dev purpose. You can get a Free Trial version of vSphere vCenter 5.0 from http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/overview.html and follow the user guide to set up a dev env.

Another choice is using EC2 (choose a centos 5.6+ image) as the dev purpose, but we havn't tested this before and there might be some error.

So we strongly suggest using vSphere vCenter 5.0 as the dev/test env.

Thanks,
Hui Hu

在 2012年8月29日星期三UTC+8上午2时32分08秒，Jonathan Fontanez写道：

[Ed Shipe]

You can load vSphere / ESXi on top of Fusion -  http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2009580 

Ive done this to run demos with both Fusion and Workstation and it works reasonably well.

-ed