If you use ESXi/vSphere, then you may know how handy templates can be for rolling out new services, test boxes and the like. Apparently you can makes templates for vSphere that have never been booted (zero chance of cruft to mess with your testing). Check out Mads’ blog for details on how to accomplish this.
Nate Walck
Nate is a Systems Reliability Engineer at Dropbox, Inc in San Francisco, CA. He runs afp548.com along with Sam Keeley and is one of the founding members of the ##osx-server IRC channel on freenode.net. He loves being involved in the Mac Admin community and using Open Source projects whenever possible, especially Munki, The Luggage and Puppet.
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Very nice. Does the Mac OS X server EULA allow for Mac OS X to run under ESXi?
That can depend on what version of OS X or OS X Server is being discussed. Here’s VMware’s KBase article on it:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1000131
So you are running ESXi on a Mac? OS X can only be [legally] run in a VM on Apple labeled hardware, according to the tech note you point at.
Yes we are!
Mac environment here and we run 12 core Mac Pros with 128 gig RAM in each. ESXi 5.1 connected via dual 10G cards to SAN over redundant physical switches.
Thanks for the article.