Actually I am pretty sure that is what it does....So I changed like 4-5 things
"my mistake", then I noticed a datastore with a "GUID" looking name popped up
on my hosts. This datastore was mapped to my NFS share. Once that showed up CS
started creating the system VMs. So I am trying to back track and see what
setting made it kick in...Stay tuned...
> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 08:40:13 -0700
> Subject: Re: VMware and NFS
> From: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
>
> So, just curious here, but why wouldn't the ESX(i) host simply be able to
> create an NFS datastore that points to the NFS share on the secondary
> storage location directly?
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Nitin Mehta <nitin.me...@citrix.com>wrote:
>
> > 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)*
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> *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>
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