I believe I had trouble with that in my development environment about 10 or so months ago. I think it turned out to be a permissions issue. Perhaps I didn't have my username in the sudoers file or something. My thinking is the management server is supposed to create /mnt/sec for you.
I wonder which NFS share it maps /mnt/sec to if you have multiple NFS secondary storages? On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Mike Tutkowski < mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > Thanks for the clarification. > > I was pretty confident an ESX host creates an NFS datastore (with a UUID > for a name) that maps to the NFS share. This is similar to how a XenServer > host creates an NFS storage repository that maps to the NFS share. > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Michael Phillips <mphilli7...@hotmail.com > > wrote: > >> Actually I am pretty sure that is what it does....So I changed like 4-5 >> things "my mistake", then I noticed a datastore with a "GUID" looking name >> popped up on my hosts. This datastore was mapped to my NFS share. Once that >> showed up CS started creating the system VMs. So I am trying to back track >> and see what setting made it kick in...Stay tuned... >> > Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 08:40:13 -0700 >> > Subject: Re: VMware and NFS >> > From: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >> > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >> > >> > So, just curious here, but why wouldn't the ESX(i) host simply be able >> to >> > create an NFS datastore that points to the NFS share on the secondary >> > storage location directly? >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Nitin Mehta <nitin.me...@citrix.com >> >wrote: >> > >> > > For XS that¹s not required as its pushed into XS directly. >> > > >> > > I also think secondary storage is mounted for Vmware on MS to copy the >> > > system vm template to Primary storage. >> > > >> > > On 20/02/14 9:13 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> >> > > wrote: >> > > >> > > >So, just to be sure I have this correct, the management server mounts >> > > >secondary storage regardless of hypervisor type due to systemvm.iso. >> Is >> > > >that correct? >> > > > >> > > >Thanks >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Sateesh Chodapuneedi < >> > > >sateesh.chodapune...@citrix.com> wrote: >> > > > >> > > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > > >> > From: Mike Tutkowski [mailto:mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com] >> > > >> > Sent: 21 February 2014 09:54 >> > > >> > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >> > > >> > Subject: Re: VMware and NFS >> > > >> > >> > > >> > Yes, the hypervisor does need to mount the NFS share, but I seem >> to >> > > >> remember there being something unusual about VMware in that the >> > > >> > management server needed to be able to mount the NFS share, as >> well. >> > > >> >> > > >> Yeah, management server mount secondary storage. >> > > >> Reason behind this is CS does patching of system vms by injecting >> > > >> systemvm.iso into system vm. In this process, management server >> mounts >> > > >> secondary storage and copies systemvm.iso image into secondary >> storage >> > > >> inside "systemvm" folder. Later that would be mounted by system vm. >> > > >>During >> > > >> system vm startup there is a script "cloud-early-config" which >> installs >> > > >>the >> > > >> content of mounted iso inside the system vm. >> > > >> >> > > >> Hope that clarifies. >> > > >> >> > > >> Regards, >> > > >> Sateesh >> > > >> >> > > >> > >> > > >> > >> > > >> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Michael Phillips >> > > >> > <mphilli7...@hotmail.com>wrote: >> > > >> > >> > > >> > > Interesting as I do see errors in the mgmt log in regards to >> > > >> > > /mnt/sec...however if I am understanding the architecture >> correctly >> > > >> > > isn't it the hypervisor that needs access to the secondary >> storage? >> > > >> > > The mgmt server only needs to access secondary storage to be >> able to >> > > >> > > seed the templates right? >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:43:32 -0700 >> > > >> > > > Subject: Re: VMware and NFS >> > > >> > > > From: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >> > > >> > > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >> > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > > I may be remembering this incorrectly, but for VMware >> doesn't the >> > > >> > > > management server have to be able to mount the secondary >> storage >> > > >>NFS >> > > >> > > share >> > > >> > > > to /mnt/sec? >> > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Nitin Mehta >> > > >> > > > <nitin.me...@citrix.com> >> > > >> > > wrote: >> > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > > > Couple of questions. >> > > >> > > > > Did you seed the system vm template onto the sec. storage >> ? And >> > > >> > > > > can you mount that template location in sec. storage on >> your >> > > >> > > > > management server >> > > >> > > ? >> > > >> > > > > >> > > >> > > > > On 20/02/14 6:32 PM, "Michael Phillips" >> > > >><mphilli7...@hotmail.com> >> > > >> > > wrote: >> > > >> > > > > >> > > >> > > > > >Hey dev guys, I just recently got CS up and running with >> > > >>vmware. >> > > >> > > However >> > > >> > > > > >I am running into an issue where it seems my esxi hosts >> are not >> > > >> > > mounting >> > > >> > > > > >the secondary NFS storage. >> > > >> > > > > >NFS is working as I can mount to it from other linux >> boxes, >> > > >>and I >> > > >> > > > > >can mount a NFS datastore from the hypervisors. In my log >> I see >> > > >> > > > > >the >> > > >> > > following >> > > >> > > > > >few errors: >> > > >> > > > > >"Unable to create mount point for >> > > >> > > > > >nfs://172.16.25.85/export/secondary >> > > >> > > ", >> > > >> > > > > >"Secondary storage mount point: /mnt/sec", "in directory >> > > >> > > > > >"/mnt/sec/template/tmpl/1/8"): java.io.IOException: >> error=2, No >> > > >> > > > > >such >> > > >> > > file >> > > >> > > > > >or directory" >> > > >> > > > > >Adding secondary storage seemed straight forward and I >> even was >> > > >> > > > > >able >> > > >> > > to >> > > >> > > > > >make it work using XEN as the hypervisor, so the problem >> > > >> > > > > >definitely >> > > >> > > seems >> > > >> > > > > >to be esxi... >> > > >> > > > > >Any tricks to making esxi work with cloudstack and NFS? >> > > >> > > > > >Thanks in advance for any help! >> > > >> > > > > >> > > >> > > > > >> > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > > -- >> > > >> > > > *Mike Tutkowski* >> > > >> > > > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >> > > >> > > > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >> > > >> > > > o: 303.746.7302 >> > > >> > > > Advancing the way the world uses the >> > > >> > > > cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >> > > >> > > > *(tm)* >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > > >> > >> > > >> > >> > > >> > >> > > >> > -- >> > > >> > *Mike Tutkowski* >> > > >> > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >> > > >> > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >> > > >> > o: 303.746.7302 >> > > >> > Advancing the way the world uses the >> > > >> > cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >> > > >> > *(tm)* >> > > >> >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >-- >> > > >*Mike Tutkowski* >> > > >*Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >> > > >e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >> > > >o: 303.746.7302 >> > > >Advancing the way the world uses the >> > > >cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >> > > >*(tm)* >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > *Mike Tutkowski* >> > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >> > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >> > o: 303.746.7302 >> > Advancing the way the world uses the >> > cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >> > *(tm)* >> >> > > > > -- > *Mike Tutkowski* > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > o: 303.746.7302 > Advancing the way the world uses the > cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > *(tm)* > -- *Mike Tutkowski* *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com o: 303.746.7302 Advancing the way the world uses the cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> *(tm)*
