I can’t seem to find instructions anywhere for how to install the BES client for VSphere ESXi. Although I can find the downloads. (albeit it says ESX 4.0/4.1) I am on the latest version of Bigfix as of this post (8.2.1175.0). Two questions:
How do you install the agent on VSphere ESXi 5 (Step by step like you have for the other agents)
Just wanted to update others in case they are waiting for answer as well. I got message from support via a ticket I opened and currently the Vmware agents available do not work with ESXi, which of course means VSphere 5 ESXi. They also stated they expect an agent that supports VSphere 5 ESXi sometime this summer. (2nd Quarter I assume that means).
Any version of ESXi does not have anywhere for an agent to be installed which is why the existing agents do not work. Previously ESX was based on a variation of RedHat Linux and an installation of that agent was doing the work.
The ESXi hypervisor is a very thin layer. There will probably be a way in the future of managing some elements of ESXi installations but there will not be a native agent for that platform.
While it’s true that you can’t install a full fledged agent on ESXi hypervisors, we do have some management capabilities with ESXi 4, 4.1, and 5.0 hypervisors via the proxy agent. With the management extender installed you can do basic things like rebooting hosts, taking snapshots on VMs on the host, and check the patching level on an ESXi hypervisor.
There’s additional documentation here if you want to find out more about the vCenter Management Extender features:
Patches for ESXi (for patch compliance on your ESXi machines):
IEM manage VMware 5.x ESXi via
management extender, does the
management extender belongs to MDM? so that’s mean the customer must
purchase MDM component to
manage
VMware 5.x ESXi right?
And, if the customer want to detect some settings of ESXi host, do we have some inspect relevance or support run script(action) on ESXi host?
