Thanks Josh, I appreciate all the help. I guess I need to wait for Andy or Aaron to Chime in as I'm kind of stuck at this point. Wish there were some instructions on setting up vcl with vcenter system. Thanks again
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Josh Thompson <[email protected]>wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > John, > > You need to create a "computer" for your vCenter system. It's not actually > referring to a real computer or VM, but the vCenter system. VCL started > out > with virtualization only doing direct control of hypervisors. So, they had > computer entries. It just worked out to be the simplest thing to have a > vCenter installation be a "computer". So, if you have not created this > yet, > you'll need to go to Manage Computers->Edit Computer Information->Add > Single > Computer to create it. > > Every resource in VCL has an owner. This ensures there is someone that can > manage the resource if administrative rights to that resource have not been > granted to it by having it in a resource group. So, the owner would be the > account you use to log in to your VCL system. > > I'm not sure of a good set of instructions for configuring VCL with a > vCenter > system. > > One other thing - you'll need to install the perl vsphere sdk for perl on > your > management node if you haven't done that yet. > > Thanks, > Josh > > On Tuesday, November 05, 2013 9:30:21 AM John Peters wrote: > > Thanks Josh. So far I have not added anything to manage computers so I > just > > have add single computer and multiple computer. When you refer to "the > > computer" you have created for your vcenter are you specifically > referring > > to the physical server that we have that is running vcenter? I'm > following > > the directions at the link below but it seems not to be geared towards > > using vcenter. What would the owner field be? Thanks for all your help. > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/VCL > > +2.3+-+Further+Steps+if+Using+VMware > > > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Josh Thompson <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > John, > > > > > > First, you need to create a new VM Host Profile or modify an existing > one > > > to > > > match your setup. When using vCenter, you need to set a Resource Path. > > > > > > Hover > > > > > > over the ? icon next to that field for a description of how to set it. > > > You > > > can leave the Image field blank. You will need to set a value for > each of > > > the > > > * items. You'll also need to fill in the Username and Password fields. > > > > > > Next, you need to go to Manage Computers->Edit Computer Information and > > > click > > > Edit next to the "computer" you have created for your vCenter system. > Set > > > the > > > Provisioning Engine to "None", the State to "vmhostinuse", and set the > VM > > > Host > > > Profile to the one you just configured in the previous step. The > > > information > > > you found about setting the computer to the vmhostinuse state in the > > > database > > > is outdated. You'll want to set the RAM for the system to something > quite > > > high as VCL does not overbook the RAM of a VM host. So, for a vCenter > > > "Host" > > > you need to set it to the combined RAM of all the nodes under vCenter > > > (note > > > to other reading this - increasing this value for a non vCenter host to > > > force > > > overbooking does not work because vcld will later update the RAM to the > > > real > > > value of the node). > > > > > > I'm not as familiar with how VCL works with vCenter clusters as others > > > are. > > > The Resource Path may be what distinguishes this. Andy or Aaron C. can > > > probably give more info. > > > > > > Josh > > > > > > On Monday, November 04, 2013 4:28:02 PM John Peters wrote: > > > > I'm reading some more posts and starting to gain a better > understanding. > > > > > > So > > > > > > > from what I have read, I need to manage computers then choose either > > > > > > blade > > > > > > > lab or virtual machine. What I'm confused about is I read on this > list > > > > > > that > > > > > > > vcl can see vcenter as one big host so I can take advantage of > vmotion > > > > > > etc. > > > > > > > DO I choose lab for type and then per the instructions edit it to > > > > cmwareinuse? basically I'm trying to use the vmware vcenter profile. > I'm > > > > just not clear by reading the documentation. Thanks. Any help is > > > > appreciated. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 3:35 PM, John Peters <[email protected]> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Well, I found the below link whichs helps but basically I want to > be > > > > > able to turn on DRS and vmotion from the vshpere client so do I > need a > > > > > vcenter host profile or do I need a profile for each host under > that > > > > > cluster. SO if my datacenter is PMA 440 -> Academic Cluster under > > > > > vsphereclient , would the resource path be / PMA 440/Academic > Cluster > > > > > ? > > > > > do the spaces matter? > > > > > > > > > > link was very helpful thank you > > > > > > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/VMware+Configuration > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:53 PM, John Peters <[email protected]> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > >> Hello all. > > > > >> > > > > >> I'm at the point in my vcl install where I need to add vm hosts. > In > > > > > > our > > > > > > > >> vcenter we have three Clusters, I'd like to add this VCL to the > > > > >> "Academic" Cluster. I'm not 100% sure on what fields I need to > fill > > > > >> in > > > > >> under Virtual Hosts -> VM Host profiles. DO i need to choose > > > > >> VcenterProfile and if so, Basically we have a shared iscsi network > > > > >> storage and the three esxi hosts 5.1 are connected to the > "Academic" > > > > >> cluster. I'm not to sure on what to put in Resource path VMworking > > > > >> Directory Path. Any help or sample configurations are appreciated. > > > > >> perhaps some screen shots would help. > > > > > > - -- > > > - ------------------------------- > > > 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) > > > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAlJ4+7cACgkQV/LQcNdtPQO+WQCeL9MI97GTVDC4xnEdgGUA1Sn2 > > > td4An1FKvgxmWfd3mA1JYdyjyJ5Hdd0V > > > =QUSa > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > - -- > - ------------------------------- > 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) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlJ5BfoACgkQV/LQcNdtPQO8YQCePxx66kLTL2xZMNDeO0g5eufX > PY4AnipPjh2G2fhh8t7C7prlevN/Kx0P > =9v3W > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
