Hello,
Due to the rising cost of VMware by Broadcom licensing I am looking for an alternative to VMware vSphere. I have a sles trial managing VMs with virt-manager. It’s not great. Does Suse Manager manage virtual machines as well like vCenter or do I have the wrong perception of the product? I am trying to set up a trial but am unable to connect to the organization I can only assume because it’s an eval.
I think you cannot control with SUMA the VM-Ware clients directly. You can just bootstrap yout clients to the SUMA and then working with SALT to update/configure and so on… . May you can bould solution with ansible. Ansible can handle VM-Ware clients. SUMA can run Ansible playbooks on ansible nodes. So may you can use the SUMA GUI (instead of an Ansible tower) for execute playbooks where control the VMs.
regards
Tino
Whilst SUSE Manager can manage virtual Linux machines (i.e. guests) it can’t manage VMware vSphere hosts.
Hi, you could take a look at Proxmox, which is another hypervisor.
I think licence cost are much lower.
And you can import to Proxmox your existing VM’s from vmware (by exporting to disk and importing on proxmox).
Cheers, Igor