I tried the manual insertion of the MAC address and I was able to get a
DHCP lease for the VM (IP 10.20.240.254) but for some reason it just kept
saying it was processing the discovery request like this over and over
again:
Jan 10 17:45:11 x3650-head01 xCAT: xcatd: Processing discovery request from
10.20.240.254
Jan 10 23:45:14 10.20.240.254 (none) dhclient[310]: XMT: Solicit on eth0,
interval 125010ms.
Jan 10 17:45:16 x3650-head01 xCAT: xcatd: Processing discovery request from
10.20.240.254
Jan 10 23:45:17 10.20.240.254 (none) dhclient[321]: XMT: Solicit on eth1,
interval 112560ms.
Jan 10 17:45:21 x3650-head01 xCAT: xcatd: Processing discovery request from
10.20.240.254
Jan 10 17:45:36 x3650-head01 last message repeated 3 times
I'll have to debug this more after the weekend.
-Josh
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Josh Nielsen <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I would like to provision some new nodes in my xCAT cluster inside VMWare
> but I just realized that the way xCAT has identified and discovered my
> nodes in the past has been by dedicated physical port numbers on the
> switches as defined in the xCAT switch database table. That is not a
> problem for physical nodes which have a single cable going into a port on a
> switch dedicated only to that node.
>
> For example one of my nodes has this entry in the switch table:
>
> #node,switch,port,vlan,interface,comments,disable
> "hinode","bnt01","44","1","eth0","bnt01:p44"
>
> This tells xCAT that the node found connected to port 44 on switch bnt01
> can be identified as node "hinode". With a VMWare cluster however a VM may
> reside on many ports (in my case I have 3 ESX servers - and 3 corresponding
> cables to the switch - which the VM may be on) at any given time, depending
> on which VMWare host it is running on. And on top of that the network
> connection is trunked so that every VM running on each ESX host goes
> through the same network port.
>
> Has anyone provisioned nodes in VMWare before with xCAT? And if there is
> not a way to do this automatically by the switch/port associations, is
> there another manual way that I can discover the node? Would manually
> inserting the node's MAC address into the xCAT 'mac' table work, or is more
> than that required for (auto)discovery?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh Nielsen
>
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