I would set up a new virtual center and add this to Cloudstack and then one by
one export and import your VMs in to Cloudstack one by one. I would definitely
recommend not updating the database or importing your existing virtual center
in to cloudstack. The export format will need to be OVA. You should not use the
same virtual center that you manage with Cloudstack. Importing them this way
means Cloudstack will track the life cycle of the VMs however the downside
would be you will have a template for each VM you import which will inevitably
take up space on your secondary NFS server and the ESX datastore. Depending on
your size of VMs, depends on how long this will take and you might have to
tweak some global settings if the OVA templates sizes are large.
It would be good if you could import them straight in but I do not think this
is possible.
Here is an extract from the installation guide.
6.4.2. Add Cluster: vSphere
Host management for vSphere is done through a combination of vCenter and the
CloudStack admin UI. CloudStack requires that all hosts be in a CloudStack
cluster, but the cluster may consist of a single host. As an administrator you
must decide if you would like to use clusters of one host or of multiple hosts.
Clusters of multiple hosts allow for features like live migration. Clusters
also require shared storage such as NFS or iSCSI.
For vSphere servers, we recommend creating the cluster of hosts in vCenter and
then adding the entire cluster to CloudStack. Follow these requirements:
Do not put more than 8 hosts in a vSphere cluster
Make sure the hypervisor hosts do not have any VMs already running before
you add them to CloudStack.
Oliver Leach
Platform Architect
InstaCompute
-----Original Message-----
From: venkatesh.a [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 11:07 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Porting VMWare virtual setup into CloudStack
Hi
In our office we are having VMWare EsXi two Servers with multiple VM's
managed by VCenter. Can we manage Virtual Machines CloudStack by installing it
in one of the Virtual Machines.
Thanks in Advance
Best Regards
Venkatesh.A
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rohit
Yadav
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 7:22 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Porting VMWare virtual setup into CloudStack
Instances yes. Overall cloud, that will take some time and energy, and a lot of
hacking, there was a proposal sometime back to import existing hosts and
instances to CloudStack which was never implemented, maybe in future.
Longer way: For each instances, export ova, deploy/start CloudStack, upload ova
and start instances in CloudStack.
HTH.
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:20 PM, venkatesh.a <[email protected]>
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> CloudStack. Is it possible port ?
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> Thanks and Regards
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> Venkatesh.A
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