We are planning our upgrade from vSphere 4.1 to 5 and were considering deploying the new vCenter Appliance rather than building vCenter ourselves on a Windows server. The new appliance, I believe, is based on SUSE Linux not Windows. Initially this sounded like a great idea, no more Windows patching . We are currently using SMVI and VSC and these products are currently installed onto our vCenter servers.
At this stage it looks like we will need to stay with a Windows host for vCenter .
Are there any plans to support VSC on the new appliance (i.e. Linux rather than Windows)? If not, is there any way we can get it to work by splitting VSC and vCenter and hosting on different platform or is the integration too tight for that?
Any suggestions or comments appreciated.