You can create snapshots via either the perl vi api, or the rcli tools. We're using puppet to call the perl api and provision guests within ESXi, works a treat.
/dane On Apr 25, 2009, at 2:59 AM, paul matthews wrote: > Actually Ohad, I think your script relates to VMware Server. My > question related to the other free VMware product - ESXi which I > think may be a non starter in puppet terms due to the difficulties > with getting ruby on as Mike has suggested > > Cheers > Paul > > 2009/4/24 paul matthews <paulsmatth...@googlemail.com> > Ohad, > That's superb - I'll give that a try > Cheers > Paul > > 2009/4/24 Ohad Levy <ohadl...@gmail.com> > > if you are talking about normal vmware "free server edition" you can > give this a try: > http://github.com/ohadlevy/puppet-vmware/tree/master > > Ohad > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Mike Pountney <mike.pount...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > Paul, are you talking about ESXi or the full blown ESX? I would expect > that it would be possible to puppetize the service console, but for > ESXi I would not expect it to be possible to get ruby on there. > > > > On 23 Apr 2009, at 16:51, paul matthews wrote: > > > When I say busybox it's actually VMware ESX server which seems to > > use busybox (which I guess is the case a number of other software > > appliances) . Reason for wanting to install puppet is to run the cli > > tools to create nightly vmware snapshots. > > I'm happy to give it a go (and add the docs to the wiki) but I'm not > > too sure at this stage how big a task this might be and what, if > > any, are the potential pitfalls > > > > Cheers > > Paul > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Paul Matthews > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > Paul Matthews > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
