Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

2013-12-06 Thread Ramon Acedo
Hi Thomas, On 3 Dec 2013, at 14:41, Thomas McLaughlin 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 vSphe

Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

2013-12-05 Thread Jeff
I work for a company that develops software amongst other items. As such we write software to work on Mac OSX and though a special agreement with Apple have approval to use VM's running OS X for testing and development purposes only. The VM's have to be running on Apple hardware only, and we are

Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

2013-12-03 Thread Dan Wendlandt
i Quan Chen" Cc: openstack@lists.openstack.orgSent: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 6:05:53 PMSubject: Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver Hi: Below is some information about the mail from Hai Quan Chen: In our lab, our OpenStack (Grizzly) can connect to vCenter to view OS machines and imag

Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

2013-12-03 Thread Kai KT Tong
Jeremy Stanley , Cc: openstack@lists.openstack.org Date: 2013/12/04 09:18 Subject: Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver ESXi 5.x could virtualize on Mac hardware. In my lab, I have a running ESXi on Mac mini server, which connects to Openstack via vCenter. From:

Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

2013-12-03 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-12-04 09:03:46 +0800 (+0800), Hai Quan Chen wrote: > ESXi 5.x could virtualize on Mac hardware. > > In my lab, I have a running ESXi on Mac mini server, which > connects to Openstack via vCenter. Good point. What I meant was legally possible, but only if buying the servers for your comput

Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

2013-12-03 Thread Hai Quan Chen
ESXi 5.x could virtualize on Mac hardware. In my lab, I have a running ESXi on Mac mini server, which connects to Openstack via vCenter. From: Jeremy Stanley To: openstack@lists.openstack.org Date: 2013/12/04 07:46 Subject:Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver On

Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

2013-12-03 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-12-03 14:47:48 -0800 (-0800), Stefano Maffulli wrote: [...] > If so, I haven't heard of anybody virtualizing OS X but I'd be happy to > be proven wrong. As recently as last year a former employer of mine was looking into it, but the issue turned out to be one of licensing. Apple didn't lic

Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

2013-12-03 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hi Thomas, On 12/03/2013 01:41 PM, Thomas McLaughlin wrote: > 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. If I understand your messa

[Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver Clearer Text

2013-12-03 Thread Thomas McLaughlin
Hello, Requirements One We do not want to pay to use vCenter as part of our open stack we are setting up. Two One of the instances we are going to run on ESXi needs to be Mac OS Three I believe with the vmwareapi.VMwareESXDriver: a driver that lets nova-compute communicate directly to an E

[Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

2013-12-03 Thread Thomas McLaughlin
Hello, Requirements One We do not want to pay to use vCenter as part of our open stack we are setting up. Two One of the instances we are going to run on ESXi needs to be Mac OS Three I believe with the vmwareapi.VMwareESXDriver: a driver that lets nova-compute communicate directly to an E