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Butt, if you have a large environment... The appliance only supports oracle database.<br />
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Greets
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Butt, if you have a large environment... The appliance only supports oracle database.

Greets

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The OP, is using Essentials Plus, so limited to only 3 hosts, well within the capacity of VMware vCenter Appliance for Linux!
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The OP, is using Essentials Plus, so limited to only 3 hosts, well within the capacity of VMware vCenter Appliance for Linux!

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I am building a two-node, SAN storage system, using VMWare vSphere Essentials Plus Kit.<br />
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My question is, should the vCenter VM that I build to manage this system be on a Windows VM or a Linux VM?<br />
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Thanks.
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I am building a two-node, SAN storage system, using VMWare vSphere Essentials Plus Kit.

My question is, should the vCenter VM that I build to manage this system be on a Windows VM or a Linux VM?

Thanks.

vCenter on Windows or Linux?

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.