Re: [lopsa-tech] Macs and vSphere

2014-12-10 Thread Jonathan
On 22/10/14 11:58, Jonathan wrote: Hi, I'm delighted to see that the latest patch for ESX 5.5 U2 (released October 15th), includes support for the 6,1 MacPro. At the moment we are interposing an NFS server between our Fibre Channel storage and our Mac Minis running ESX, which works well enou

Re: [lopsa-tech] Macs and vSphere

2014-10-22 Thread Jonathan
On 25/03/14 13:03, Stephen Potter wrote: On 3/25/2014 7:57 AM, Jonathan wrote: I realise that no currently-produced Apple kit is on the vSphere HCL. My question is whether you have any experience of the new Mac Pro with vSphere, including multiple NICs and FC connections. The response from

Re: [lopsa-tech] Macs and vSphere

2014-03-25 Thread Jonathan
On 25/03/14 14:42, Gilbert Wilson wrote: Your best bet at this point in time is to use the current production Mac Mini as a test platform for your requirements. Hi. Thanks for your feedback. We have done some limited testing on an old Mac Mini. The limitation we're up against is memory (Ma

Re: [lopsa-tech] Macs and vSphere

2014-03-25 Thread Edmund White
:42 AM To: Stephen Potter mailto:s...@unixsa.net>> Cc: "tech@lists.lopsa.org<mailto:tech@lists.lopsa.org>" mailto:tech@lists.lopsa.org>> Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Macs and vSphere On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Stephen Potter mailto:s...@unixsa.net>> wrote:

Re: [lopsa-tech] Macs and vSphere

2014-03-25 Thread Gilbert Wilson
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Stephen Potter wrote: > On 3/25/2014 7:57 AM, Jonathan wrote: > >> I realise that no currently-produced Apple kit is on the vSphere HCL. My >> question is whether you have any experience of the new Mac Pro with >> vSphere, including multiple NICs and FC connecti

Re: [lopsa-tech] Macs and vSphere

2014-03-25 Thread Stephen Potter
On 3/25/2014 7:57 AM, Jonathan wrote: I realise that no currently-produced Apple kit is on the vSphere HCL. My question is whether you have any experience of the new Mac Pro with vSphere, including multiple NICs and FC connections. The response from our local suppliers has been "let us know h

[lopsa-tech] Macs and vSphere

2014-03-25 Thread Jonathan
Hi At work, we're a big VMware site, running the usual mix of *nix, Windows, and some Novell(!) servers. Our farm is a stretched cluster (10 miles separation) with sync replicating storage. We wish to add OS X support to our server farm. Due to licensing, we need to add Apple hardware. Ou