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 our local suppliers has been "let us know how you get on".
Jonathan-
I've checked internally and on the VMware community pages. No one is
able to get ESXi to install and run on the 6,1 MacPro so far. We are
working on supporting the next major version of ESXi on the MacPro
6,1, but unfortunately, not specifically 5.5. Additional to your
question, the MacPro 6,1 has no internal expansion slots, so you are
limited to the built-in: 2 GigE ports, 4 USB3, and 6 Thunderbolt
ports, so it wouldn't have the expansion you are looking for.
William Lam has gotten 5.5 to work on the Mac Mini and has a blog
about it at virtuallyghetto, and the old MacPro (5,1) is supported and
has 4 PCIe slots. You can find various models at BHPhotovideo.com.
-spp
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 enough for the low volume of OS
X guests we are hosting. However, our aim is to move to using
Thunderbolt fiber channel adaptors. Has anyone got any pointers to
achieving this? It's not my field, but as I understand it Thunderbolt
presents a serial PCIe bus, and Thunderbolt/PCIe converters are
available. I presume the ESX fibre channel driver would need to be
"Thunderbolt aware" and that we cannot just use our usual QLogic FC
cards with a converter.
Many thanks for any pointers.
Jonathan.
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