Re: [xcat-user] issue building stateless image for centos 7.
Hi, What version of xCAT are you using? (lsxcatd -v) Can you show us the output of lsdef node? And also lsdef -t osimage mycomputeimage ? Thanks, Ling Gao Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab IBM Systems and Technology Group Internal: T/L 293-5692 External: ling...@us.ibm.com, 845-433-5692 I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. --- Albert Einstein From: Brian Kemish b.kem...@uq.edu.au To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 12/07/2014 09:35 PM Subject:[xcat-user] issue building stateless image for centos 7. Hi, I am trying to building a stateless image for centos 7.0 based on the instructions in the xCAT iDataPlex Cluster Quick Start guide, setting netboot to grub2 with the command chdef -t node -o node1 netboot=grub2. I can create a ramdisk, but when I try to set the OS image for the node I get the following error nodeset node1 osimage=mycomputeimage node1: netboot centos7.0-x86_64-compute Error: stop configuration, missing /tftpboot/boot/grub2/grub2.x86_64. I have installed the grub2 rpm from the xcat-dep repository. It seems to provide me with mod files for powerpc, not x86_64, I don't know if this is important or not. I notice a /tftpboot/boot/grub2/grub2.ppc elf file has been created. Do I have to specify my architecture somewhere in the configure other than in the osimage I select ? Any advice would be appreciated. regards Brian. -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
[xcat-user] xCAT commands that need to be completed
Hi all, We are doing a survey on a feature request. One of our customers put xCAT commands in some scripts to automate the task. They have seen some xCAT commands not really fully completed when the commands return. For example: 1. makecnservercf command. When the command returns, the conserver.cf file has configured. However, the command calls service conserver restart at the end which returns immediately without waiting for the conserver to start completely. 2. rpower command. It just sends the request to the firmware, the hw control API just returns without waiting for the node to change to the desired state. In above situations, the customer had to put some wait statements in the script. But this requires them to know exactly what is happening in the xCAT commands. So they request that the xCAT handles all of these internally. When the commands return, everything is really done. For xCAT developers, we know these limitations are from the underlying commands (such as service) and APIs that the xCAT commands are using. We'd like to know the follwowing: 1. If you put xCAT commands in scripts or just running them manually. 2. if you have encountered the same problem and how do you resolve it. 3. Do you prefer xCAT wait for unfinished tasks or you handle it in your own script. Thanks, Ling Gao Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab IBM Systems and Technology Group Internal: T/L 293-5692 External: ling...@us.ibm.com, 845-433-5692 I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. --- Albert Einstein -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
Re: [xcat-user] Will xCAT work with ESXi 5.5?
Hello Jarrod, I think we are indeed using the free license. What exactly do you mean by doesn't let us automate it? Do you mean, basically, that the commands like mkvm won't work (which is just a wrapper around the VMWare SDK functions right?) and that (with the free license) we would have to create the VMs manually? But if so, even once they are created (manually) can xCAT deploy an image to it via ESX (following the rsetboot, nodeset, rpower instructions in the wiki) if we are using the free license? Or are you saying xCAT simply will not be able to deploy anything to a VM at all with the free ESX license? Thanks, Josh Nielsen On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Jarrod Johnson jarrod.b.john...@gmail.com wrote: It will work, but the free license doesn't let us automate it. It requires eval or commercial license sadly. This is the case for older ones as well. On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.org wrote: Hello all, I ran into this issue when trying to create a vm I had defined in xCAT in an environment where we have two ESXi 5.5 standalone servers: # mkvm --verbose vm1 -s 100G Error: esx plugin bug, pid 16602, process description: 'xCATd SSL: mkvm to vm1 for root@localhost: esx instance' with error ' SOAP Fault: --- Fault string: Current license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the requested operation. Fault detail: RestrictedVersionFault' while trying to fulfill request for the following nodes: vm1 I installed version 5.5 update 2 of the VMWare Perl SDK (as is required) and I can contact the server with this cli command: vmware-cmd -H esxihost0001.morgan.haib.org -l The documentation only uses 4.1 as an example: http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/XCAT_Virtualization_with_VMWare/. What is the latest version of ESXi that xCAT will work with? If it does support 5.5 do I need to configure some kind of key or license file locally? I already ran my variation on: chtab key=vmware passwd.username=root passwd.password=cluster for the xCAT passwd table. Regards, Josh Nielsen -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
Re: [xcat-user] xcat 2.8.5, centos7, postscripts
I fixed the typo and try to install wget in centos7.pkglist, but wget package still doesn't get installed: [root@node0800 ~]# wget -l inf -N -r --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=2 --reject index.html* --no-parent -t 0 -T 60 http://10.125.40.6/install/postscripts/ -P /xcatpost -bash: wget: command not found So I try the commands: [root@master ~]# xdsh node0800 -K Enter the password for the userid: root on the node where the ssh keys will be updated: /usr/bin/ssh setup is complete. return code = 0 [root@master ~]# updatenode node0800 -P node0800: Cannot download the postscripts from 10.125.40.6 for node0800.palmetto.clemson.edu check /tmp/wget.log on the node. This is the centos7.pkglist file after I fixed it, attached. I would worry I have a repo problem, but yum works from the node. From the ks log file on the node, when xcat try to use wget, but wget isn't installed yet. Lanae Neild Systems Programmer I HPC, CCIT, Clemson University (864)505-4293 lne...@clemson.edu On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Lanae Neild lne...@clemson.edu wrote: Thanks, You're right, I had it backward, here is the real thing and it seems part of the problem is that wget doesn't get installed...I found a typo in the centos7.pkglist file which might (hopefully) be responsible for it, so I'll try a reinstall over the weekend and see what happens: [root@node0800 xcat]# wget -l inf -N -r --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=2 --reject index.html* --no-parent -t 0 -T 60 http://10.125.40.6/install/postscripts/ -P /xcatpost -bash: wget: command not found Lanae Neild Systems Programmer I HPC, CCIT, Clemson University (864)505-4293 lne...@clemson.edu On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Ling Gao ling...@us.ibm.com wrote: The command should be run on the node. the IP should be the ip for the xcatmaster. In your case: 10.125.4.39 is the node ip for node0800 .10.125.40.6 is the xcatmaster of the node according to the node definition. Please ssh to node0800, then run wget on the node. wget -l inf -N -r --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=2 --reject index.html* --no-parent -t 0 -T 60 *http://10.125.40.6/install/postscripts/* http://10.125.4.39/install/postscripts/ -P /xcatpost And also check on xcatmaster ( *10.125.40.6*), make sure there is a acctually a directory /install/postscripts with all the postscripts. BTW, is the netmask 255.255.0.0 on networks table for 10.125 network or you put the wrong ip for xcatmaster for the node? Ling Gao Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab IBM Systems and Technology Group Internal: T/L 293-5692 External: ling...@us.ibm.com, 845-433-5692 I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. --- Albert Einstein From:Lanae Neild lne...@clemson.edu To:xCAT Users Mailing list xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date:12/05/2014 04:32 PM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] xcat 2.8.5, centos7, postscripts -- [root@master lanae]# wget -l inf -N -r --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=2 --reject index.html* --no-parent -t 0 -T 60 *http://10.125.4.39/install/postscripts/* http://10.125.4.39/install/postscripts/ -P /xcatpost --2014-12-05 16:26:33-- *http://10.125.4.39/install/postscripts/* http://10.125.4.39/install/postscripts/ Connecting to 10.125.4.39:80... failed: Connection refused. Retrying. Lanae Neild Systems Programmer I HPC, CCIT, Clemson University (864)505-4293 *lne...@clemson.edu* lne...@clemson.edu On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Ling Gao *ling...@us.ibm.com* ling...@us.ibm.com wrote: ok, on management node (or the service node), there is a directory /install/autoinst, there is a file with the node name, that is the kick start file. Can you view that file and look for 'wget'? You will get something like: wget -l inf -N -r --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=2 --reject index.html* --no-parent -t 0 -T 60 *http://$i$INSTALLDIR/postscripts/* http://$i$installdir/postscripts/ -P /xcatpost Can you run this command on the node? This is the first step to prepare the postscripts to be run on the node. Replace $i with the ip of the service node, $INSTALLDIR with /install. See what error it gives you. Ling Gao Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab IBM Systems and Technology Group Internal: T/L 293-5692 External: *ling...@us.ibm.com* ling...@us.ibm.com, *845-433-5692* 845-433-5692 I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. --- Albert Einstein From:Lanae Neild *lne...@clemson.edu* lne...@clemson.edu To:xCAT Users Mailing list *xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net* xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date:12/05/2014 02:00 PM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] xcat 2.8.5, centos7, postscripts
Re: [xcat-user] xcat 2.8.5, centos7, postscripts
what error do you get if you run yum install wget on the node? If it does not work, can you show the repo? yum repolist. Ling Gao Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab IBM Systems and Technology Group Internal: T/L 293-5692 External: ling...@us.ibm.com, 845-433-5692 I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. --- Albert Einstein From: Lanae Neild lne...@clemson.edu To: xCAT Users Mailing list xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 12/08/2014 11:22 AM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] xcat 2.8.5, centos7, postscripts I fixed the typo and try to install wget in centos7.pkglist, but wget package still doesn't get installed: [root@node0800 ~]# wget -l inf -N -r --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=2 --reject index.html* --no-parent -t 0 -T 60 http://10.125.40.6/install/postscripts/ -P /xcatpost -bash: wget: command not found So I try the commands: [root@master ~]# xdsh node0800 -K Enter the password for the userid: root on the node where the ssh keys will be updated: /usr/bin/ssh setup is complete. return code = 0 [root@master ~]# updatenode node0800 -P node0800: Cannot download the postscripts from 10.125.40.6 for node0800.palmetto.clemson.edu check /tmp/wget.log on the node. This is the centos7.pkglist file after I fixed it, attached. I would worry I have a repo problem, but yum works from the node. From the ks log file on the node, when xcat try to use wget, but wget isn't installed yet. Lanae Neild Systems Programmer I HPC, CCIT, Clemson University (864)505-4293 lne...@clemson.edu On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Lanae Neild lne...@clemson.edu wrote: Thanks, You're right, I had it backward, here is the real thing and it seems part of the problem is that wget doesn't get installed...I found a typo in the centos7.pkglist file which might (hopefully) be responsible for it, so I'll try a reinstall over the weekend and see what happens: [root@node0800 xcat]# wget -l inf -N -r --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=2 --reject index.html* --no-parent -t 0 -T 60 http://10.125.40.6/install/postscripts/ -P /xcatpost -bash: wget: command not found Lanae Neild Systems Programmer I HPC, CCIT, Clemson University (864)505-4293 lne...@clemson.edu On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Ling Gao ling...@us.ibm.com wrote: The command should be run on the node. the IP should be the ip for the xcatmaster. In your case: 10.125.4.39 is the node ip for node0800 .10.125.40.6 is the xcatmaster of the node according to the node definition. Please ssh to node0800, then run wget on the node. wget -l inf -N -r --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=2 --reject index.html* --no-parent -t 0 -T 60 http://10.125.40.6/install/postscripts/ -P /xcatpost And also check on xcatmaster ( 10.125.40.6), make sure there is a acctually a directory /install/postscripts with all the postscripts. BTW, is the netmask 255.255.0.0 on networks table for 10.125 network or you put the wrong ip for xcatmaster for the node? Ling Gao Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab IBM Systems and Technology Group Internal: T/L 293-5692 External: ling...@us.ibm.com, 845-433-5692 I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. --- Albert Einstein From:Lanae Neild lne...@clemson.edu To:xCAT Users Mailing list xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date:12/05/2014 04:32 PM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] xcat 2.8.5, centos7, postscripts [root@master lanae]# wget -l inf -N -r --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=2 --reject index.html* --no-parent -t 0 -T 60 http://10.125.4.39/install/postscripts/ -P /xcatpost --2014-12-05 16:26:33-- http://10.125.4.39/install/postscripts/ Connecting to 10.125.4.39:80... failed: Connection refused. Retrying. Lanae Neild Systems Programmer I HPC, CCIT, Clemson University (864)505-4293 lne...@clemson.edu On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Ling Gao ling...@us.ibm.com wrote: ok, on management node (or the service node), there is a directory /install/autoinst, there is a file with the node name, that is the kick start file. Can you view that file and look for 'wget'? You will get something like: wget -l inf -N -r --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=2 --reject index.html* --no-parent -t 0 -T 60 http://$i$INSTALLDIR/postscripts/ -P /xcatpost Can you run this command on the node? This is the first step to prepare the postscripts to be run on the node. Replace $i with the ip of the service node, $INSTALLDIR with /install. See what error it gives you. Ling Gao Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab IBM Systems and Technology Group Internal: T/L 293-5692 External: ling...@us.ibm.com, 845-433-5692 I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. --- Albert Einstein From:Lanae Neild lne...@clemson.edu
Re: [xcat-user] xcat 2.8.5, centos7, postscripts
That wget command was used to only test the downloading the postscripts. In order to have the postsctripts to run, you have to run updatenode node -P from the management node. OK, how to install wget during the deployment? Your .pkglist file seems right. It is strange that wget did not get installed. I do not have a centos system to try. Can anyone on the list help on this issue? Thanks, Ling Gao Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab IBM Systems and Technology Group Internal: T/L 293-5692 External: ling...@us.ibm.com, 845-433-5692 I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. --- Albert Einstein From: Lanae Neild lne...@clemson.edu To: xCAT Users Mailing list xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 12/08/2014 12:05 PM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] xcat 2.8.5, centos7, postscripts OK, I ran the wget command after installing wget: wget -l inf -N -r --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=2 --reject index.html* --no-parent -t 0 -T 60 http://10.125.40.6/install/postscripts/ -P /xcatpost It downloads what I think are correct postscripts into /xcatpost, but there is no mypostscript* files there. Also no /var/log/xcat/xcat.log and nothing new in /tmp/wget.log. How to get this to work without manually installing wget? Lanae Neild Systems Programmer I HPC, CCIT, Clemson University (864)505-4293 lne...@clemson.edu On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Ling Gao ling...@us.ibm.com wrote: I am confused, did you say that the error -bash: wget: command not found is still there? Ling Gao Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab IBM Systems and Technology Group Internal: T/L 293-5692 External: ling...@us.ibm.com, 845-433-5692 I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. --- Albert Einstein From:Lanae Neild lne...@clemson.edu To:xCAT Users Mailing list xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date:12/08/2014 11:44 AM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] xcat 2.8.5, centos7, postscripts No error, yum installs wget just fine. Here is a repolist anyway: [root@node0800 yum.repos.d]# yum repolist Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.fdcservers.net * extras: mirror.cogentco.com * updates: mirror.unl.edu repo id repo name status base/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Base 8,465 extras/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Extras 77 updates/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Updates 1,354 repolist: 9,896 [root@node0800 yum.repos.d]# Lanae Neild Systems Programmer I HPC, CCIT, Clemson University (864)505-4293 lne...@clemson.edu On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Ling Gao ling...@us.ibm.com wrote: what error do you get if you run yum install wget on the node? If it does not work, can you show the repo? yum repolist. Ling Gao Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab IBM Systems and Technology Group Internal: T/L 293-5692 External: ling...@us.ibm.com, 845-433-5692 I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough. --- Albert Einstein From:Lanae Neild lne...@clemson.edu To:xCAT Users Mailing list xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date:12/08/2014 11:22 AM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] xcat 2.8.5, centos7, postscripts I fixed the typo and try to install wget in centos7.pkglist, but wget package still doesn't get installed: [root@node0800 ~]# wget -l inf -N -r --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=2 --reject index.html* --no-parent -t 0 -T 60 http://10.125.40.6/install/postscripts/ -P /xcatpost -bash: wget: command not found So I try the commands: [root@master ~]# xdsh node0800 -K Enter the password for the userid: root on the node where the ssh keys will be updated: /usr/bin/ssh setup is complete. return code = 0 [root@master ~]# updatenode node0800 -P node0800: Cannot download the postscripts from 10.125.40.6 for node0800.palmetto.clemson.edu check /tmp/wget.log on the node. This is the centos7.pkglist file after I fixed it, attached. I would worry I have a repo problem, but yum works from the node. From the ks log file on the node, when xcat try to use wget, but wget isn't installed yet. Lanae Neild Systems Programmer I HPC, CCIT, Clemson University (864)505-4293 lne...@clemson.edu On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Lanae Neild lne...@clemson.edu wrote: Thanks, You're right, I had it backward, here is the real thing and it seems part of the problem is that wget doesn't get installed...I found a typo in the centos7.pkglist file which might (hopefully) be responsible for it, so I'll try a reinstall over the weekend and see what happens: [root@node0800 xcat]# wget -l inf -N -r --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused
Re: [xcat-user] Will xCAT work with ESXi 5.5?
AFAIK, without (licensed) vCenter, you don't have access to the API endpoints that xCAT is looking for. So any xCAT command that needs to communicate with the API will not work. Pure xCAT DB and file manipulation commands will work. For example mkvm, rsetboot, and rower will not work, but nodeset will. You can definitely deploy a VM on the (free) ESXi with xCAT, it's just a little more of a manual process. Once the VM boots, it does PXE just like a physical node would. So you would need use nodeset to prep the VM for install, then manually create and power on the the VM in the VI Client. The VM should then PXE boot and install like a normal cluster node. Michael From: Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.orgmailto:jniel...@hudsonalpha.org Reply-To: xCAT Users Mailing list xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Monday, December 8, 2014 at 10:29 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Will xCAT work with ESXi 5.5? Hello Jarrod, I think we are indeed using the free license. What exactly do you mean by doesn't let us automate it? Do you mean, basically, that the commands like mkvm won't work (which is just a wrapper around the VMWare SDK functions right?) and that (with the free license) we would have to create the VMs manually? But if so, even once they are created (manually) can xCAT deploy an image to it via ESX (following the rsetboot, nodeset, rpower instructions in the wiki) if we are using the free license? Or are you saying xCAT simply will not be able to deploy anything to a VM at all with the free ESX license? Thanks, Josh Nielsen On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Jarrod Johnson jarrod.b.john...@gmail.commailto:jarrod.b.john...@gmail.com wrote: It will work, but the free license doesn't let us automate it. It requires eval or commercial license sadly. This is the case for older ones as well. On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.orgmailto:jniel...@hudsonalpha.org wrote: Hello all, I ran into this issue when trying to create a vm I had defined in xCAT in an environment where we have two ESXi 5.5 standalone servers: # mkvm --verbose vm1 -s 100G Error: esx plugin bug, pid 16602, process description: 'xCATd SSL: mkvm to vm1 for root@localhost: esx instance' with error ' SOAP Fault: --- Fault string: Current license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the requested operation. Fault detail: RestrictedVersionFault' while trying to fulfill request for the following nodes: vm1 I installed version 5.5 update 2 of the VMWare Perl SDK (as is required) and I can contact the server with this cli command: vmware-cmd -H esxihost0001.morgan.haib.orghttp://esxihost0001.morgan.haib.org -l The documentation only uses 4.1 as an example: http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/XCAT_Virtualization_with_VMWare/. What is the latest version of ESXi that xCAT will work with? If it does support 5.5 do I need to configure some kind of key or license file locally? I already ran my variation on: chtab key=vmware passwd.username=root passwd.password=cluster for the xCAT passwd table. Regards, Josh Nielsen -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE
Re: [xcat-user] issue building stateless image for centos 7.
Hi, The info requested is as follows lsxcatd -v Version 2.8.5 (git commit 51b69940b6fc7b54fc2a1f89330e69c8f830a3fc, built Mon Sep 1 02:28:50 EDT 2014) lsdef node1 Object name: node1 arch=x86_64 bmc=node1 bmcpassword=PASSWORD bmcport=1 bmcusername=BMCUSER currstate=netboot centos7.0-x86_64-compute groups=compute,all initrd=xcat/osimage/newcomputeimage/initrd-stateless.gz installnic=em1 interface=em1 ip=IP ADDRESS kcmdline=imgurl=http://mrca:80//install/netboot/centos7.0/x86_64/mycomputeimage/rootimg.gz XCAT=!myipfn!:3001 NODE=node1 FC=0 ifname=MAC ADDRESS netdev=em1 console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200n8r kernel=xcat/osimage/mycomputeimage/kernel mac=MAC ADDRESS mgt=ipmi netboot=grub2 nfsserver=mrca os=centos7.0 postbootscripts=otherpkgs postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles primarynic=em1 profile=compute provmethod=mycomputeimage serialflow=hard serialport=1 serialspeed=115200 status=netbooting statustime=12-05-2014 14:54:55 tftpserver=mrca lsdef -t osimage mycomputeimage Object name: mycomputeimage exlist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/centos/compute.exlist imagetype=linux netdrivers=ixgbe nodebootif=em1 osarch=x86_64 osname=Linux osvers=centos7.0 otherpkgdir=/install/post/otherpkgs/centos7.0/x86_64 permission=755 pkgdir=/install/centos7.0/x86_64/tftpboot pkglist=/install/custom/netboot/centos/compute.centos7.pkglist profile=compute provmethod=netboot rootimgdir=/install/netboot/centos7.0/x86_64/mycomputeimage I have checked that the directories, pkglist and kernel referenced exist, but have discovered that /install/netboot/centos7.0/x86_64/mycomputeimage/rootimg.gz does not. A directory /install/netboot/centos7.0/x86_64/mycomputeimage/rootimg is present. The /tftpboot/boot/grub2/ directory contains grub2.ppc grub.cfg-MAC ADDRESS grub.cfg-HEX CODE I DON'T IMMEDIATELY RECOGNISE node1 powerpc-ieee1275 regards Brian -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
Re: [xcat-user] issue building stateless image for centos 7
Regarding my earlier message: I have run packimage and the rootimg.gz has been created. Looking at my history I had deleted those files so that I could run through the image creation process again from the beginning . The issue with missing /tftpboot/boot/grub2/grub2.x86_64 still remains. -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
[xcat-user] migrating to a new management node
We are hoping to retire our original management node in next couple of months. Is there a documented way to migrate from existing production xCAT management node to a brand new one? Thanks, Damir -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
