Hi Thomas,

On 3 Dec 2013, at 14:41, Thomas McLaughlin <mclau...@adobe.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> Requirements
>  
> One
>  
> We do not want to pay to use vCenter as part of our open stack we are setting 
> up.

You need to, at least, buy a vSphere Essentials license to manage the free ESXi 
hypervisor via the vSphere API:

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2005377

>  
> Two
>  
> One of the instances we are going to run on ESXi needs to be Mac OS

I'd love to see the new Mac Pro with an ESXi installed in it, I’m sure it will 
fly. The previous Mac Pro is in VMware’s HCL:
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=server&productid=27384&deviceCategory=server&partner=269&releases=243&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc

Using Apple hardware you can have a supported Mac OS X. I have only run VMs 
with Mac OS X on VMware Fusion and only with some, not supported, patching on 
VMware Workstation. Still need to try ESXi+Mac Pro+Mac OS X VMs though.

>  
> Three
>  
> I believe with the vmwareapi.VMwareESXDriver: a driver that lets nova-compute 
> communicate directly to an ESX host we can accomplish One and Two but I want 
> to be sure someone else has achieved this first.

Unfortunately I don’t believe that you can accomplish One as I said above.

>  
> Four
>  
> I would like suggestions of open source services that could be added to this 
> setup to replace the vCenter with the connection used in Three above.
>  
>  
> Sincerely,
>  
> Thomas V. McLaughlin
> mclau...@adobe.com
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