I've been struggling with this myself. VMware is not my first choice of virtualization technology, but my company chose VMware. We are running an ESX cluster. Based on the clustering and management apps I can't say that I blame them, but the current architecture of the VC seems to make interoperating with Linux (from a management perspective) problematic to say the least. VMware has stated publicly that they plan to rectify this in the near future, but so far I haven't seen anything: http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid94_gci1336091,00.html
It seems to me that until VMWare provides the tool set to interact with the VC from a linux client managing virtual guests on an ESX cluster will be rather difficult. On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Glenn Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: >> Excellent summary. Yes, if this is the odd one out and you have to >> run >> koan /from/ the ESX server in this case that's acceptable. Or we could >> just add parameters to koan to supply those parameters to allow that to >> run from koan. > > Hrm, I'm not sure how well this would play in a ESX cluster environment. If > you > had a single ESX host running several VM's this would be acceptable, but in a > cluster VC run's everything and the ESX servers just act as nodes. > > Maybe something separate from Koan that could reside on the VC console, the > would > query Cobbler, and then create the VM, populate Cobbler with a MAC? I know VC > has > a pretty extensive API .. > > This is all from a ESX/VMWare background BTW, I have very little experience > with > Koan ;-) > > -- > glenn > terremark worldwide > > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
