As ever, my colleague William Lam is on top of things. On Friday, he posted step-by-step instructions for installing ESXi 5.5 U2 patch 3 on a Mac Pro. If you aren’t quite feeling up to doing it yourself, he’s even got an ISO for you to download.
Category Archives: vSphere
ESXi 5.5 Patch03 officially supports Mac Pro 6,1
I got some excellent news from our hardware compatibility team this week. ESXi 5.5 Patch 03 now officially supports the Mac Pro 6,1.
As ever, William Lam at Virtually Ghetto has full details.
more community stories of VMware and Apple OS X in production
My colleague William Lam of Virtually Ghetto has been busily talking to more system administrators who have virtualized OS X in a production environment. The most recent two are:
This has been an awesome series of blog posts. I’ve learned a lot! Want to share your story of using VMware and OS X in production? Contact William.
“Community stories of VMware & Apple OS X in Production”
My colleague William Lam at Virtually Ghetto has been collecting community stories of VMware and OS X in production. So far, he’s published two stories:
If you’re running vSphere or ESXi in a production environment and want to share details, reach out to William.
“ESXi support for Apple Mac Pro 6,1”
Just a quick post to boost the signal for William Lam’s post “Quick Update – ESXi support for Apple Mac Pro 6,1”:
I know many of you have been asking about ESXi support for the latest Mac Pro 6,1 that was released from Apple late last year and I just wanted to give a quick update. VMware Engineering has been hard at work on getting this new platform certified and supported with ESXi, however, there were some unforeseen challenges that is currently preventing the current version of ESXi to run on the new Mac Pro.
VMware is working closely with Apple’s hardware team to resolve these issues and we expect to have a Mac Pro 6,1 supported with ESXi 5.5 in the future. In the meantime, if you wish to evaluate ESXi on the new Mac Pro (though not officially supported), you can sign up for the new vSphere Beta and run a Beta version of ESXi on the new Mac Pro.
“VMware Fusion Tech Preview 2 can now connect to ESXi & vCenter Server!”
The Fusion team is hard at work on the next version. Their newest Tech Preview has a great new feature: Fusion can now connect to ESXi and vCenter Server. William Lam has a blog post with plenty of details!
Installing OS X Yosemite on Fusion and vSphere
Virtually Ghetto has full instructions for installing the beta of Yosemite on both the Fusion 2014 Tech Preview and vSphere 5.5.
“why I like the vSphere web client a lot!”
I missed this post over the holidays: “why I like the vSphere web client a lot!” There’s a couple of things in it that are near and dear to my heart, such as Mac support1, Works in Progress2, and tags3.
a script for creating an OS X installer for ESXi and Fusion
With the release of OS X 10.9 (“Mavericks”), Rich Trouton has been very busily scripting away. His latest is a script that creates custom installers for 10.7-10.9, and they’ll work on both Fusion and ESXi. It’s awesome work, you should check it out.
ESXi Simple Web
Want an alternative to the vSphere 5.1+ web client? Check out virtuallyGhetto’s writeup of ESXi Simple Web, and go download it and share your thoughts.