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Hello everyone,
I wanted to remind everyone, of what I have already seen floating around the internet, but still important enough to remind. Our next release of SRM is going to require a 64 bit OS. This is the same as our next release of VC as it too will require a 64 bit host OS. This change is required to support the increased capabilities of our products. As we scale our products to match our customers needs, generally 1 - 2 years in advance of where they will need all the capabilities of a given product we have had to use a 64 bit OS. This will show itself in increased numbers in things like more simultaneous vSphere client connections.
I have looked at the upgrade instructions for moving from a 32 bit platform to a 64 bit platform for both VC and SRM. In fact, I am testing them now as I take a break to write this. Our release notes (and VC upgrade guide) will help you with what needs to be done, and for SRM I will provide additional help in this blog. But look forward to this, as a 64 bit OS is what we need to start delivering great new capabilities!
Michael
Does that apply to all VC components (specifically VUM) as well?
Posted by: Ceri Davies | 06/23/2010 at 01:34 AM
Thanks for comments Carl, yes, it does include the components.
Michael
Posted by: Michael White | 06/23/2010 at 05:29 AM
OK, thanks for clarifying.
Posted by: Ceri Davies | 06/23/2010 at 01:48 PM
Please please please get out a release of View that supports 64 bit. I've got several View pilots underway (which may go production) where I had to install vCenter onto 32 bit Windows as View Composer only supports 32 bit.
This just sounds very painful come the next release of View/vCenter...
Posted by: Andrew Miller | 06/29/2010 at 07:32 PM
Might be nice if Virtual Center supported Windows 2008 R2
Posted by: Alex GB | 06/30/2010 at 11:47 PM
Hi guys,
Yes, View will support 64 bit in the future, not sure exactly when but certainly this year. And yes, R2 will be supported to run VC in the VERY near future!
Michael
Posted by: Michael White | 07/05/2010 at 08:41 AM
vCenter is supported on Win 2008 R2 since 4.0 update 1...
http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vc40_u1_rel_notes.html#whatsnew
It did require the use of a 32 bit DSN for ODBC.
If you're going to make a change now though you should use vCenter 4.1 with native 64 bit DSN capabilities.
Posted by: Iben Rodriguez | 07/14/2010 at 10:23 AM