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Will the vCenter 5.0 server appliance run on an ESXi 4.1 host.

We have an environment that is running Windows 2003 guests and in the process of upgrading to ESX 4.1, we are unable to upgrade to version 5 as the storage is not yet supported. In order to run vCentre we need a 64 bit OS however we currently do not have any of these or can easily upgrade them at the moment.  Is it possible to run the vCenter  5.0 server appliance on an EXSi host?
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If you want to use update manager then the vcenter appliance is useless since it needs a sql instance just like the vcenter on windows.
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Thanks, saw some comments that it would but I was sceptical. We currently use update manager so this would also be problematic. Looks like we will need an installation of Windows 2008 then.
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   No Update Manager
    No Linked-Mode
    No support for the VSA (vSphere Storage Appliance)
    Only support for Oracle as the external database
    Embedded database, DB2, only supports 5 hosts and 50 VMs
    No support for vCenter Heartbeat
Hi

You can create a VM in your ESXi 4.1 and install a Windows 2008 64-bit and install a vCenter there.

With a vCenter 5, you can manage ESXi 4.x hosts without any problem.

Jail
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Thanks, saw some comments that it would but I was sceptical. We currently use update manager so this would also be problematic. Looks like we will need an installation of Windows 2008 then.