For XS that¹s not required as its pushed into XS directly. I also think secondary storage is mounted for Vmware on MS to copy the system vm template to Primary storage.
On 20/02/14 9:13 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: >So, just to be sure I have this correct, the management server mounts >secondary storage regardless of hypervisor type due to systemvm.iso. Is >that correct? > >Thanks > > >On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Sateesh Chodapuneedi < >sateesh.chodapune...@citrix.com> wrote: > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Mike Tutkowski [mailto:mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com] >> > Sent: 21 February 2014 09:54 >> > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >> > Subject: Re: VMware and NFS >> > >> > Yes, the hypervisor does need to mount the NFS share, but I seem to >> remember there being something unusual about VMware in that the >> > management server needed to be able to mount the NFS share, as well. >> >> Yeah, management server mount secondary storage. >> Reason behind this is CS does patching of system vms by injecting >> systemvm.iso into system vm. In this process, management server mounts >> secondary storage and copies systemvm.iso image into secondary storage >> inside "systemvm" folder. Later that would be mounted by system vm. >>During >> system vm startup there is a script "cloud-early-config" which installs >>the >> content of mounted iso inside the system vm. >> >> Hope that clarifies. >> >> Regards, >> Sateesh >> >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Michael Phillips >> > <mphilli7...@hotmail.com>wrote: >> > >> > > Interesting as I do see errors in the mgmt log in regards to >> > > /mnt/sec...however if I am understanding the architecture correctly >> > > isn't it the hypervisor that needs access to the secondary storage? >> > > The mgmt server only needs to access secondary storage to be able to >> > > seed the templates right? >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:43:32 -0700 >> > > > Subject: Re: VMware and NFS >> > > > From: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >> > > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >> > > > >> > > > I may be remembering this incorrectly, but for VMware doesn't the >> > > > management server have to be able to mount the secondary storage >>NFS >> > > share >> > > > to /mnt/sec? >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Nitin Mehta >> > > > <nitin.me...@citrix.com> >> > > wrote: >> > > > >> > > > > Couple of questions. >> > > > > Did you seed the system vm template onto the sec. storage ? And >> > > > > can you mount that template location in sec. storage on your >> > > > > management server >> > > ? >> > > > > >> > > > > On 20/02/14 6:32 PM, "Michael Phillips" >><mphilli7...@hotmail.com> >> > > wrote: >> > > > > >> > > > > >Hey dev guys, I just recently got CS up and running with >>vmware. >> > > However >> > > > > >I am running into an issue where it seems my esxi hosts are not >> > > mounting >> > > > > >the secondary NFS storage. >> > > > > >NFS is working as I can mount to it from other linux boxes, >>and I >> > > > > >can mount a NFS datastore from the hypervisors. In my log I see >> > > > > >the >> > > following >> > > > > >few errors: >> > > > > >"Unable to create mount point for >> > > > > >nfs://172.16.25.85/export/secondary >> > > ", >> > > > > >"Secondary storage mount point: /mnt/sec", "in directory >> > > > > >"/mnt/sec/template/tmpl/1/8"): java.io.IOException: error=2, No >> > > > > >such >> > > file >> > > > > >or directory" >> > > > > >Adding secondary storage seemed straight forward and I even was >> > > > > >able >> > > to >> > > > > >make it work using XEN as the hypervisor, so the problem >> > > > > >definitely >> > > seems >> > > > > >to be esxi... >> > > > > >Any tricks to making esxi work with cloudstack and NFS? >> > > > > >Thanks in advance for any help! >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > -- >> > > > *Mike Tutkowski* >> > > > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >> > > > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >> > > > o: 303.746.7302 >> > > > Advancing the way the world uses the >> > > > cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >> > > > *(tm)* >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > *Mike Tutkowski* >> > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >> > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >> > o: 303.746.7302 >> > Advancing the way the world uses the >> > cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >> > *(tm)* >> > > > >-- >*Mike Tutkowski* >*Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >o: 303.746.7302 >Advancing the way the world uses the >cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >*(tm)*
