-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Toan,
The vCenter profile is not the one you want. That's for when you are using a licensed copy of VMware vCenter to control your ESXi nodes. Depending on how you have your storage set up, you'll want to choose one of the VMware ESXi profiles. This page explains more about VCL and VMware: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/VMware+Configuration Josh On Friday, July 05, 2013 10:48:08 AM Toan Trac wrote: > Thank you for the thorough response. I will give it a shot when I get > home. I noticed the profile for the VMware host is set to "vCenter" right > now. Is that an important selection? > > I am running the free ESXi so I will need to set the SSH key. Please > follow this thread. > > Toan > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Josh Thompson <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > On Friday, July 05, 2013 8:17:35 AM Toan Trac wrote: > > > Josh, > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for your reply as I continue to dig through my issues. > > > > > > > > > > > > When I changed to VMware, I get the failed log showing "vSphere SDK for > > > Perl does not appear to be installed on this managment node, unable to > > > > load > > > > > VMware vSphere SDK Perl modules, error:". I even tried updating the > > > vSphere SDK module but I don't think its the issue. See below for a > > > full > > > log. > > > > > > > > > > > > I have a few questions. > > > > > > > > > 1) I ran into an older documentation of version 2.21 that says about > > > ESX/ESXi to use SSH identity key authentication. Do I have to configure > > > > it? > > > > > I am working on version 2.3.2 now? > > > > Unless you are using a licensed version of ESXi, you will need to enable > > SSH > > identity key authentication. When using SSH identity key authentication, > > you > > may still see messages in vcld.log about not being able to use the vSphere > > SDK. I think it tries the SDK first and then tries SSH. When using the > > free > > license for ESXi, the SDK is restricted to read only actions. So, you > > need to > > use SSH. You don't need to have the SDK installed. > > > > > 2) On the VMware host, do you know > > > what version (provisioning) I should set it at if I am using ESXi 4.0? > > > -xCAT 1.3 -xCAT 2.1 -xCAT 2.x > > > > For the VMware host, you should select "None" as the provisioning engine - > > i.e. VCL is not provisioning (loading) the physical VMware host; you have > > manually installed it and are just adding it to VCL for VCL to be able to > > provision VMs on it. > > > > > 3) Since I am building this setup > > > for learning process and will be handed a live system to manage soon, my > > > hardware setup is limited. So I want to make sure my setup is not the > > > cause of the image failed. The db, web and management node are on the > > > > same > > > > > server with just one (192.168.1.70) NIC. > > > > Having the VCL stack on a system with one NIC should be okay, though I'm > > not > > completely sure about that working for the management node. > > > > > Also my ESXi 4.0 host has just > > > one NIC with an IP address 192.168.1.2 (so I stated public/private with > > > same IP). For the windows 2003 machine that I tried to capture the > > > > image, > > > > > it has 2 NICS (private -192.168.1.80, public - 192.168.1.81). > > > > VCL expects every provisioned node to have 2 NICs that are on separate > > networks. Having 2 NICs on a VM that are on the same subnet will be a > > problem. I think having the VMware host with just one NIC is okay. It > > definitely only needs to have an IP bound on one network; however, it may > > still need to have the 2nd NIC for the VMs. I think you can create 2 > > vswitches in ESXi on the same NIC and use different subnets on each one. > > > > You > > > > could use 192.168.1.0/24 for one subnet and 10.10.10.0/24 [1] for the > > other > > subnet. You'd need to use the 192.168.1.0 subnet for the VCL "private" > > network so that it would be on the same subnet as the management node. > > > > Give that a shot and see if it works better. > > > > Josh > > > > [1] You don't have to use 10.10.10.0, but you might have to use something > > other than 192.168.x.x. I'm not familiar with how vcld determines which > > network is the private one and which is the public one. Having another > > 192.168.x.x network might confuse it. - -- - ------------------------------- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlHXDToACgkQV/LQcNdtPQPSVQCeJVjfRkA2wY6FsD26NSQWRb1n r9oAnApGSQ0c2g3NC6Kp4UGWZUDF6Uaj =T9eB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
