[one-users] OpenNebula with VMWare ESXi

[Tino Vazquez]

Hi Vladimir,

comments inline,

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Vladimir Vuksan <vlists at veus.hr> wrote:
> I have an existing OpenNebula cloud with KVM hosts and would now like to add
> some ESXi hosts. I have looked at the following document
>
> http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.2:evmwareg
>
> I have been able to add the ESXi host using onehost and ONE sees it however
> there are a lot of missing details ie. can I use my KVM images (I assume
> not), if not do I just convert QCOW2 images to VMDK.

VMware and KVM are not compatible at the disk format, so basically
yes, you will need to convert them

> Image templates are not
> really well defined and are very basically defined in the documentation. I
> was wondering if anyone is actually using OpenNebula and VMWware
> successfully ?

Could you please be more specific about which details you are missing?

Also I found the VMWare SSH stuff and was hoping to use it
> since the mounted SSH doesn't really work if you have a central OpenNebula
> that manages multiple geographically separate locations.

The SSH drivers are not compatible with the latest OpenNebula, they
will be revamped in the mid term.

>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir

Regards,

-Tino

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