Hi Alok,<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Alok Shrivastwa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alokshrivastwa@hotmail.com">alokshrivastwa@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Hi Team, <br>
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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.<br>
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In order to do this <br>
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1. VM - Running Ubuntu 10 for the Front End <br>
2. Bare Metal x64 Arch box - Running ESX/ESXi (For Node)<br>
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Now, here are a few questions <br>
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1. Do I need a SAN architecuture for this testing ?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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].</div>
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2. I am kind of confused with the image and storage terminologies used in the wiki. <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The terminology can be confusing since there might be inconsistencies. In general storage means the container of images.</div>
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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?<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As of now, OpenNebula doesn't support OVFs. You will need to </div><div><br></div><div> 1) Register the VMDK files using oneimage</div><div> 2) Create a VM template referencing the disk id obatined in step 1)</div>
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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. <br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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</div>
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Sorry for such an open ended question and pardon my ignorance.<br>
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Thanks, <br>
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Alok<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>-Tino</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.2:evmwareg">http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel2.2:evmwareg</a></div>
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