Hi Jason,
The best place to look is the official openstack compute documentation that
covers vSphere in Nova:
http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/vmware.html
In particular, check out the section titled Images with VMware vSphere
(pasted below). As that text suggests,
Hi Dears,
In the documenthttps://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NovaVMware/DeveloperGuide
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NovaVMware/DeveloperGuideunder the'Get
an initial VMDK to work with',
its said, 'There are a lot of gotchas around what VMDK disks work with
OpenStack + vSphere,'.
The appendix