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hobbit client on esx server?

list Jon Dustin
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:23:46 -0500
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On 1/15/2008 at 4:30 PM, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:02:02PM -0500, Jason Chambers wrote:
Is it possible to do? It looks like a linux fork to me.
Possible, but as I understand from our ESX guys you cannot install any
kind of 3rd-party software on the ESX host without voiding your support
agreement.

In fact, ESX servers is one of the targets for my SNMP-based monitoring
tool right now.
This is an interesting "warning"...  If I am ever on the phone to VMWare Support, I will make sure to "forget" the Hobbit client is running!

I am currently running the Hobbit client on 7 ESX 3.01 boxes, without any problems. I compiled the client on another server, then merely unzipped it on ESX, and adjusted the startup script. I also made a custom test that runs esxtop and parses the output to determine the "real" CPU load.
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