Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

2013-12-06 Thread Ramon Acedo
Hi Thomas, On 3 Dec 2013, at 14:41, Thomas McLaughlin mclau...@adobe.com wrote: Hello, Requirements One We do not want to pay to use vCenter as part of our open stack we are setting up. You need to, at least, buy a vSphere Essentials license to manage the free ESXi hypervisor

Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

2013-12-05 Thread Jeff
I work for a company that develops software amongst other items. As such we write software to work on Mac OSX and though a special agreement with Apple have approval to use VM's running OS X for testing and development purposes only. The VM's have to be running on Apple hardware only, and we

[Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver Clearer Text

2013-12-03 Thread Thomas McLaughlin
Hello, Requirements One We do not want to pay to use vCenter as part of our open stack we are setting up. Two One of the instances we are going to run on ESXi needs to be Mac OS Three I believe with the vmwareapi.VMwareESXDriver: a driver that lets nova-compute communicate directly to an

Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

2013-12-03 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hi Thomas, On 12/03/2013 01:41 PM, Thomas McLaughlin wrote: I believe with the vmwareapi.VMwareESXDriver: a driver that lets nova-compute communicate directly to an ESX host we can accomplish One and Two but I want to be sure someone else has achieved this first. If I understand your message

Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

2013-12-03 Thread Hai Quan Chen
ESXi 5.x could virtualize on Mac hardware. In my lab, I have a running ESXi on Mac mini server, which connects to Openstack via vCenter. From: Jeremy Stanley fu...@yuggoth.org To: openstack@lists.openstack.org Date: 2013/12/04 07:46 Subject:Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi

Re: [Openstack] vmwareapi with VMwareESXDriver

2013-12-03 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-12-04 09:03:46 +0800 (+0800), Hai Quan Chen wrote: ESXi 5.x could virtualize on Mac hardware. In my lab, I have a running ESXi on Mac mini server, which connects to Openstack via vCenter. Good point. What I meant was legally possible, but only if buying the servers for your compute