I am currently running vCenter 6.0 on a VM in my environment. My update manager server has crapped out on me and it looks like I will have to rebuild it. I was told the update manager is now native to 6.5 if installed as a server appliance and no longer needs a secondary server to run this feature.
My thought is to move the vCenter off the current VM and just do a fresh install of 6.5 on to this bare metal machine since I have to rebuild it anyway. This will still allow me to access all my VMs even when I have to reboot their host machines...as of now if I have to reboot the host machine the vCenter 6.0 resides on...I loose all accessibility to all VMs until it comes back up...which was a pain in the neck once I came to the realization that the "auto-start on boot" feature was not enabled when it was setup last time... :\
Anyway, I have downloaded the 6.5 software and burned the .iso to a disc, but there does not appear to be any boot info on the .iso. Do I need to install Linux on this box first and then install vCenter on top of that? To run this as a server appliance and have the native update manager feature included, does it have to run on Linux or can it run on a Windows Server machine?
I was expecting the cd to load that and then install vCenter, but I am new to the whole VMWare world and just getting my feet wet.
Thanks for any help, guidance, and or suggestions.