I made some updates to the following page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/VMware+Configuration
See the "Network Storage Only - No Repository" example at the bottom. I think this is close to your environment. -Andy On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Mike Haudenschild <m...@longsight.com> wrote: > Hi Al, > > I'm assuming that you're mounting the NFS shares on ESXi hosts, and using > those shares as the datastores for the 8 VM hosts. > > If you're using "local storage" as the VM host profile, the the management > node retrieves the requested image from a centralized location, copies it to > the VM host, and then starts that image up on the target host. In this set > up, the management node is the component of VCL that needs to be aware of > the location of the image repository. > > If you're using "network storage" as the VM host profile, the images are NOT > captured to the management node's repository path during image capture. It > assumes all the hosts are using the same network storage. It sounds like > this might be your current setting. > > Check out the "VM Disk" parameter in the virtual host profile (scroll about > 4/5 down): > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/VMware+Configuration > > Check which VM host profile you're using: > > Click Virtual Hosts > Select one of your 8 VM hosts from the pull-down > Click Configure Host > The current VM host profile is shown below > > Check where the management node is expecting images to be located: > > Click Management Nodes > Click Submit (edit management node information) > Click the Edit button next to a management node > Check what's in the Install Path box > > Regards, > Mike > > -- > Mike Haudenschild > Education Systems Manager > Longsight Group > (740) 599-5005 x809 > m...@longsight.com > www.longsight.com > > > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 15:46, Evelio Quiros <evq...@fiu.edu> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Having a bit of a problem, and I guess it might be an assumption that I am >> making… >> >> I have 8 VM servers on VCL. Each server is attached to NFS disks. These >> are separate NFS shares for each VM server. >> I capture a base image on one server. I can reload any computer attached >> to that server with that image. That part is ok. >> >> The trouble comes when I try to reload a computer attached to a different >> VM server. VCL complains that it cant find the base image. >> >> I was under the impression that VCL knew where the base image resides, and >> transfers it to the host computer. >> At least, that was what the info under "pending" said it was doing. >> >> So, my question is… >> >> Do the NFS shares for multiple VM servers need to be the same mount point >> ? >> Can't I have VCL find the base image on whatever VM server it was created >> ? >> >> Thanks, >> Al Quiros >> Florida International University >> >
