[one-users] OpenNebula with VMWare ESXi

Tino Vazquez tinova at opennebula.org
Thu Mar 1 03:55:29 PST 2012


Dear Vladimir,

I've just added a warning in the VMware driver documentation stating
the licence issue.

Thanks for your feedback,

-Tino

[1] http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.2:evmwareg?&#requirements

--
Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula



On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Vladimir Vuksan <vlemp at vuksan.com> wrote:
> Correct which is what I said in my message. I suggested making a big
> disclaimer in the documentation that VMWare support depends on either using
> a paid or evaluation version of ESXi. I spent couple days getting everything
> going since I was not aware of that :-(.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vladimir
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Tino Vazquez wrote:
>
>> Dear Vladimir,
>>
>> You can always use the evaluation version:
>>
>> http://lists.opennebula.org/htdig.cgi/users-opennebula.org/2011-December/007223.html
>>
>> Hope it helps,
>>
>> -T
>>
>> --
>> Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
>> Project Engineer
>> OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
>> www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Vladimir Vuksan <vlists at veus.hr> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I checked the ESX hypervisor and VM is not specified. Reading through
>>> most
>>> of the documentation for VMWare it doesn't appear ESXi allows write API
>>> operations for the free version of ESXi. I hope I am wrong but I am not
>>> seeing how this works otherwise.
>>>
>>> Vladimir
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Tino Vazquez wrote:
>>>
>>>>> It is an optional requirement, stated in the drivers page and in the
>>>>> networking page for vmware, that is, the information is already
>>>>> duplicated.
>>>>>
>>>>> That said we are
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> still left with the limitation of not being able to use the unpaid
>>>>>> version
>>>>>> of ESXi with OpenNebula. I have installed vSphere CLI and I'm still
>>>>>> get
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  error: internal error HTTP response code 500 for call to
>>>>>> 'RegisterVM_Task'.
>>>>>> Fault: ServerFaultCode - fault.RestrictedVersion.summary
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Check the VI client, you are probably trying to register the same VM
>>>>> twice, you will need to manually remove the VM from the ESX
>>>>> hypervisor.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>



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