Virtual Center
If you are using VMware servers, you are probably going to use multiple servers to take advantage of the High Availability features VMware offers, such as Vmotion. To coordinate those servers you will need to run a Microsoft Windows Server system with VMware’s virtual center installed. It’s rumored that vSphere will have a Linux-based Virtual Center, but this has not been announced for the initial release. It still requires Microsoft Windows.
VMware is GUI driven and VMware expects you will primarily use VI Client to interact with your systems. You will need to run at least one windows system to manage VMware ESX servers. The Service Console won’t let you get around this requirement. However, when your network stops working right or you need to take a closer look at a system’s performance, you will be glad to have the service console available.
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