The VMWare and XenServer OpenStack support have very similar architectures. 
Every hypervisor has a VM that runs the nova-compute code. You don’t as such 
install it into the hypervisor. In the case of XenServer, there are certainly 
some plugins that are installed, but nova, at the moment, still runs in a VM on 
top of the hypervisor.

I don’t think OpenStack requires vCenter at all.

The email linked below looks like what is in the manual (and was previously on 
the wiki). I guess the format of the nova conf should be updated, but it looks 
mostly accurate from what I remember.

I hope that helps a little.

Thanks,
John

From: openstack-bounces+john.garbutt=eu.citrix....@lists.launchpad.net 
[mailto:openstack-bounces+john.garbutt=eu.citrix....@lists.launchpad.net] On 
Behalf Of Jorge de la Cruz
Sent: 25 April 2012 14:33
To: Atul Gosain
Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Using VMWare ESXi with openstack

Hi,
I worked with Cloudstack too, Cloudstack use the vCenter for launch the VM's, 
destroy, etc. That is a good idea but you depend, always, for the good 
funcionality of vCenter.

The Information for Openstack is so short:
http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/VMWare_configuration_options.html

But i readed a good message before, this:
https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg09607.html


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De: "Atul Gosain" <atul.gos...@gmail.com>
Para: openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Enviados: Miércoles, 25 de Abril 2012 15:18:35
Asunto: [Openstack] Using VMWare ESXi with openstack

Hi

 I tried to see how we can control any existing infrastructure of 
VMWare/XenServer etc from openstack.
What i understood is that nova compute needs to be installed on the 
hypervisors(compute hosts) which can be Ubuntu Servers for KVM etc.
Also for XenServer, we can build a package on Ubuntu and then will have to 
install on XenServer so that it can be controlled by cloud controller.

Basically openstack compute should be installed on hypervisor and accepts the 
instructions from controller to create VM's, assign IP addresses, destroy, 
attaching volumes etc.
Please confirm this understanding.

Based on this, i did not find anything on VMWare ESXi. How does the compute 
gets installed on ESXi server ?

Also, i have seen cloudstack working which seems to be little different than 
how openstack works. Cloudstack can control existing VMWare/XenServer/KVM etc 
using their respective API's.
It doesnt require any installation on the hypervisor itself. If my 
understanding is correct, then this seems to be a better model.
What is the reason that openstack cannot operate the hypervisors without 
installing compute on them ?

Thanks
Atul

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