We have lots of regular ESX 3.5 hosts but I'm about to take delivery of a bunch of Xeon 55xx based servers and think it's time to question whether to use 3i in the future. It would save me buying local boot disk pairs and most of the patches are to the COS rather than the kernel. We use vCenter so don't need SSH access. So my question is do I really need the COS? What do you need the COS for? Thanks.
VMWare: ESX or 3i? Do I need the COS
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Best Answer
You mean the service console? If you've got vCenter then you don't need it. It's as simple as that. I'm using the VI Client with a single ESXi host, I've enabled ssh access but I'm not using it. Occasionally will use the RCLI but the GUI does most of what we need.