Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

Tue, 03 Dec 2013 20:45:12 -0800

To be clear, OpenStack Grizzly contains the VCDriver that performs the standard set of Nova VM operations (start, stop, suspend, resume, etc.) by talking directly to vCenter without the need for additional commercial technologies.  See: http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-compute/admin/content/vmware.html .  

The Nova vCenter integration has been tested by a fair number of people and deployed in production by a handful.  While we still provide bug fixes for Grizzly, we recommend the more recent Havana release for any new production deployments.  There is also a legacy Nova driver that talks directly to ESX (the original model prior to Grizzly, contributed by Citrix I believe).  This driver is not actively maintained and I have not been part of any customer installs with it, so I cannot comment on what does or does not work.

Dan
 

From: "Kai KT Tong" <tong...@cn.ibm.com>
To: "Hai Quan Chen" <chenh...@cn.ibm.com>
Cc: openstack@lists.openstack.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 6:05:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

Hi:

Below is some information about the mail from Hai Quan Chen:

In our lab, our OpenStack (Grizzly) can connect to vCenter to view OS machines and images. It needs two IBM production: SCE and Smartcloud.

EXSI 5.1, 5.0 4.x are supported.

For now it can only review these OS resources and can not manage OS resources such as deploy/start/stop. We lack customization steps.

Thanks & Best Regards ,
Kai KT Tong
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Inactive hide details for Hai Quan Chen---2013/12/04 09:18:19---ESXi 5.x could virtualize on Mac hardware. In my lab, I have a Hai Quan Chen---2013/12/04 09:18:19---ESXi 5.x could virtualize on Mac hardware. In my lab, I have a running ESXi on Mac mini server, whic

From: Hai Quan Chen/China/IBM@IBMCN
To: Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org>,
Cc: openstack@lists.openstack.org
Date: 2013/12/04 09:18
Subject: Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver




ESXi 5.x could virtualize on Mac hardware. 

In my lab, I have a running ESXi on Mac mini server, which connects to Openstack via vCenter.




From:        Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> 
To:        openstack@lists.openstack.org 
Date:        2013/12/04 07:46 
Subject:        Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver 



On 2013-12-03 14:47:48 -0800 (-0800), Stefano Maffulli wrote:
[...]
> If so, I haven't heard of anybody virtualizing OS X but I'd be happy to
> be proven wrong.

As recently as last year a former employer of mine was looking into
it, but the issue turned out to be one of licensing. Apple didn't
license OS X for running on any hardware except their own, so while
there were some ways to make it technically possible it was not
_legally_ possible. This also seems to be reflected in VMware's
knowledge base now...

<URL: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1000131 >

--
Jeremy Stanley

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