Hi Alok, On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Alok Shrivastwa < alokshrivas...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Team, > > Sorry if I am being redundant here. I am a beginner and am just starting to > learn to use the Cloud Nebula product and I want to use it with VMWare > ESX/ESXi. Now, I was wondering as to what was needed. I will put in my > understanding here (after going through the wiki) and please point me in the > right direction if I am mistaken. > > In order to do this > > 1. VM - Running Ubuntu 10 for the Front End > 2. Bare Metal x64 Arch box - Running ESX/ESXi (For Node) > > Now, here are a few questions > > 1. Do I need a SAN architecuture for this testing ? > No, you just need a NFS server (it can be the same ONE front-end). Also, if you are not aware, you will need the VMware Driver Addon [1]. > 2. I am kind of confused with the image and storage terminologies used in > the wiki. > The terminology can be confusing since there might be inconsistencies. In general storage means the container of images. > > If I have an OVF template, that I want to deploy on the ESX server with > help of the Open Nebula. How do I host the OVF (and the VMDK and other > stuff), where will the virtual hard drive of the VM instance be stored in > this case? > As of now, OpenNebula doesn't support OVFs. You will need to 1) Register the VMDK files using oneimage 2) Create a VM template referencing the disk id obatined in step 1) > > I was reading about the fact you had to export some volumes as NFS before > and add them in datastore, all this confused me, so if anyone has > implemented some thing like this, using Open nebula/SAN/ESX, some pointers > will be great. > Yes, you basically need to export $ONE_LOCATION/var in the front-end using NFS, and mount it in the ESX host as a DATASTORE. The name of the DATASTORE needs to be sert in $ONE_LOCATION/etc/vmm_sh/vmm_sh_vmware.conf > > Sorry for such an open ended question and pardon my ignorance. > > > Thanks, > > Alok > Best regards, -Tino [1] http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.2:evmwareg > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.opennebula.org > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org -- Constantino Vázquez Blanco | dsa-research.org/tinova Virtualization Technology Engineer / Researcher OpenNebula Toolkit | opennebula.org
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