In a previous article I wrote about the vCSA’s features and benefits. A few readers have asked what works with the vCSA and what does not.
The vCSA supports all vCenter features – DRS, SDRS, HA, Host Profiles, dvSwitches, etc.
Secondary architecture features like supported DB, View Composer are not yet at feature parity with the Windows vCenter Server.
Not supported yet:
- Microsoft SQL as the database for vCenter – requires stable ODBC driver for Linux that can scale.
- vCenter Server Linked Mode – requires ADAM.
- vCenter Server Heartbeat – requires Windows.
- IPv6.
- Single sign-on using Windows session credentials.
- VMware View Composer (Linked Clones) – installed on Windows vCenter Server only.
- vSphere Storage Appliance – VSA Manager & VSA Cluster Server installed on Windows vCenter Server.
- VIX Plugin for vCenter Orchestrator – VMware Tools API only works with Windows vCenter Server.
Other VMware products that work with the vCSA:
- vCenter Operations.
- vCenter Orchestrator.
- vCenter CapacityIQ.
- SRM5.
- VMware View 5 (no Linked Clones).
- Auto Deploy.
- vCenter Update Manager.
- vMA.
- vSphere Client.
- vSphere Web Client.
- VMware vCloud Director.
- PowerCLI.
- vSphere Client for iPad & vCMA.
If I find anything else, I’ll update the article.
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vCenter Update Manager seems not to work with it.
Posted by DonGato | September 11, 2011, 22:16It does.
Posted by Hugo Phan | September 15, 2011, 16:59I can’t find the vCenter Update Manager within the appliance. Could you please explain how to do find it?
Posted by Suat | November 6, 2011, 19:35vUM is not integrated in the vCSA, you’ll need to install vUM in a Windows VM and then register the vCSA.
Posted by Hugo Phan | November 7, 2011, 07:26As seen in the Mastering vSphere 5 book, the required installation of VUM in a Windows Server VM essentially defeats the purpose of using the vCSA all together. I mean I’m in a strictly unix environment and administering a Windows VM (esp Server) is a big no no.
Posted by Justin Edmands | November 9, 2011, 12:51The compatibility matrix for SRM5 specifically calls out the Windows version of vCenter,
Posted by Brad Clemmons | January 12, 2012, 15:26