Robert Foreman wrote: > 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. >
Are web services interacting with VirtualCenter possible? If so, that may be the answer? > 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 > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
