Sanub, An important distinction is that I don't think Jonathan is installing Vagrant onto the ESXi host, he's running it from his desktop. (Vagrant is generally run from a desktop and used to create and orchestrate local virtual machines)
The extra setup is so you can get VMWare ESXi to accept the commands from Vagrant on your desktop machine. It looks like Jonathan's repo is pretty robust. If you can get the setup working it would be worth being able to build infra using Vagrant code files. Alternatively, you can use Packer to create VMs directly on free ESXi as described in this post. https://nickcharlton.net/posts/using-packer-esxi-6.html That also requires some setup directly on VMWare ahead of time. On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 4:17 AM sanub <sanubo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have just now joined this group and have come across Vagrant only > recently and out of my intrigue and interest i have spent some amount time > to understand its capabilities and usecases for myself. I have a question > in relation to hosting Vagrant, side effects and performance from a > baremetals perspective. This is my current situation: > > - Possessing a Dell poweredge R710 with 2 cpu's and 6 cores each (total 12 > cores) + 48GB RAM + 4 x 10kSAS disks (total of 992GB HDD) +iDRAC 6i + RAID0 > - Installed VMWare ESXi 6.7 on a 32GB USB drive to boot stright into esxi. > I use the web interface to log into esxi console and launch two Ubuntu > 18.04 server VM's and undertake any admin related activities. The ip is > static and vmware tools installed. I do not have any other VMware products, > installed. > > My question: > 1. VMWare: I came across josenk's approach to installing Vagrant on to the > ESXi (https://github.com/josenk/vagrant-vmware-esxi) but am not sure if > this is sure fire approach as it has an elaborate set of steps to take. I > could not find any other alternatives to install Vagrant and I am currently > not willing to invest in Vagrant+VMware paid license as i am unsure if it > would be compatible with my infrastructure (not gone there, yet!). Do you > know if there are any other easier alternative approach to installation on > ESXi 6.7? > 2. VirtualBox: I could not find an approach to installing VB on baremetals > in a similar approach as to ESXi. I need to have an OS and then install VB > on top. This causes a predicament as in there are additional layers of > OS/hypervisor/OS to process requests and this could impact performance > which i am trying to minimise. If this is the easiest approach and offers > better reliability and stability, i would be interested in this approach > (would do it on top of Ubuntu 20.04). > > Looking at these two options, what would the Vagrant expert recommend. I > am somehow begining to buy into the benefits of Vagrant. > > Thank you and looking ahead to reading your response. > > Cheers, > Sanub > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues > Discuss: https://discuss.hashicorp.com/c/vagrant/24 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vagrant" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vagrant-up+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/957e6b91-32a3-44e2-8e74-8bcad8a9514c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/957e6b91-32a3-44e2-8e74-8bcad8a9514c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- JP Toto | james.p.t...@gmail.com | http://jptoto.jp | @jptoto <http://twitter.com/jptoto> -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues Discuss: https://discuss.hashicorp.com/c/vagrant/24 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vagrant-up+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/CAAYNrX9TT2FLtNF-dRgsxJHx7yufFKyY%2B86zdTOBVj5NjrYPcQ%40mail.gmail.com.
