topic Query: macOS vm on SImplivity solution in HPE SimpliVity

macOS vm on SImplivity solution

dinosargyris — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 19:51:13 GMT

HI All

can macos vms moved to simplivity?

we have a customer with macos vms on esxi standalone server and we need to migrate to simplivity.

I have found out that esxi requires a patch but will this be supported on simplivity?

macOS Un locker Installation

prep ESXi host with the ability to run macOS in a VM. The un locker is written python that modifies the vmware-vmx file to allow macOS to boot. Without this unlocker, the machine simply doesn't work and is suck in a sad infinite boot loop.

Query: macOS vm on SImplivity solution

support_s — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 18:52:11 GMT

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Re: Query: macOS vm on SImplivity solution

dinosargyris — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 18:54:57 GMT

sorry not relevant any of the links you send me

Re: macOS vm on SImplivity solution

PatrickLong — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 14:51:18 GMT

Per this VMware KB, "The End User License Agreement (EULA) for Apple Mac OS X legally and explicitly binds the installation and running of the operating system to Apple-labeled computers only." So unless your customer with "macos vms on esxi standalone server" is running that ESXi standalone server today on either a Mac Mini or older cylinder-style Mac Pro server hardware, they (and you, if you provided that solution for them) are already in violation of the Apple EULA. Moving those instances to Simplivity would guarantee they are in violation since there are no Simplivity solutions that are Apple-branded hardware

Is it *possible* to run a macOS vm on Simplivity? The answer is that with the right amount of tweaking and file modification it is probably possible to run macOS on any Intel-based server hardware. But it is not legal to do so and certainly none of Apple, HPE, nor VMware would support it. Both you and your customer would incur unnecessary risk for doing so - there are plenty of legitmate avenues to achieve virtualized macOS instances like Mac minis if on-prem is required. You should note that VMware has already announced they will not be supporting Apple Mac platforms in any version after ESXi 7.0 per this KB: vSphere ESXi 7.0.x will be the final release supporting Apple Mac platforms , which states: "VMware currently has no plans to support Apple Mac Silicon. Moving forward, vSphere ESXi 7.0.x will be the final release supporting Apple Mac Platforms on x86." Or your customer can use one of a number of licensed cloud-hosted solutions like MacStadium or new AWS Mac instances. I would discourage you from trying macOS on Simplivity for anything other than an educational, experimental, proof of concept exercise; and certainly not on a production Simplivity node/cluster and definitely not on behalf of a paying customer. It's not worth it.

Re: macOS vm on SImplivity solution

dinosargyris — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 14:53:53 GMT

Thank you very much for the extended reply.

much appreciated

Re: macOS vm on SImplivity solution

Sunitha_Mod — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 03:14:28 GMT

Hello @dinosargyris,

Awesome!

We are glad to know your concern has been addressed.