On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 12:09 PM Serge E. Hallyn <se...@hallyn.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I've inherited a few vsphere machines where I was hoping to use juju > to fire off openstack etc. I've been trying to use the vsphere > provider (which I was excited to see existed), but am seeing a few > inconsistencies, so had a few questions. > > The first blunt question - is this going to be a maintained driver, > or am I in 6 months likely to find the vsphere driver dropped? > We are actively working on making the vsphere provider to be a great experience in the Juju 2.3 release. There's some more work to be done for mirroring VMDKs from cloud-images, but otherwise I think everything's working well now. I don't have any reason to believe that we would drop the provider, or to reduce focus on quality. People seem to want it :) The second is motivating the first - when I looked at > https://jujucharms.com/docs/2.1/help-vmware it says hardware version > 8 (ESX 5.0) should be sufficient. But in fact juju has a ubuntu.ovf > hardcoded in it that specifies 'vmx-10', which is ESX 5.5.. I currently > have 5 ESX 5.1 machines and one 6.0. > To my knowledge, Juju has only been tested with ESXi 5.5 and 6.0. In terms of hardware support, version 8 seems like it should be sufficient. I'm not sure about the APIs we're using, but we don't use a lot, so it wouldn't surprise me if ESXi 5.1 just works. If you're able to tweak the OVF and build Juju from source, that would be a great help. Otherwise I will check what we require in terms of APIs when I return from vacation next week - and try it out and report back. If it works, then we can look to update the OVF for Juju 2.3. Even with a custom DC using only the 6.0 host, I have some (probably > proxy) issues bootstrapping, which I'm sure are surmountable - but the > answer to Q1 will decide whether it's worth pursuing that further, or > whether I should spend my time elsewhere :) > Please file a bug if you're still having issues. Juju 2.3 beta 1 is imminent, so please use that if you can. Cheers, Andrew thanks, > -serge > > -- > Juju mailing list > Juju@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju >
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