We used to run cfengine-2.2.10 on our production ESX 4.0 machines, basically just to manage aspects of the service console. We did not attempt this on ESXi 4.1. So yes, it can be done, just be prepared to fix whatever you break without calling VMware support.
Rich On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 09:29:51AM -0400, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: CFEngine Help > Subject: Re: CFEngine on ESX? > Author: bbomgardner > Link to topic: hxxps://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23532,23534#msg-23534 > > I have never tried this, and personally I would recommend against it. I'm > sure it could be done (although ESXi may be trickier) but VMware does not > intend for user software to be run directly on the host so this might become > an issue if you require support. > > If you would like to use CFEngine to interact with virtual machines (which I > think would be awesome!), I would recommend using VMware API scripts that > connect to the VMware cluster from a separate management host. > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > hxxps://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > -- Richard A. Ray II HPC Systems Administrator High-Performance Computing Operations National Center for Computational Sciences Oak Ridge National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
