Re: VM Provision Confusing

2009-05-06 Thread Brian Bouterse
No, something is not correct with your license. All standard ESX 3i licenses support all VM functionality except the ability to move VMs around while they are running (Vmotion). Ensure that your hypervisor isn't mounting the NFS volume as read only (which is an option for ESX to do). Al

Re: VM Provision Confusing

2009-05-06 Thread 乔木
Thank you very much. It's clear now. One more question, I see that the API of the free ESX 3i version only support read-only operations like monitoring. When I firstly installed ESXi and didn't use the free license, I have 60 days' evaluation and VCL could successfully do all operations. But when

Re: VM Provision Confusing

2009-05-06 Thread Brian Bouterse
Regarding NFS, below are a few practical reasons to not use local hard disks to host the images as they run. 1) Say each image is 10GB, on a 72GB hard drive (the standard "large" drive in a blade), that means as a maximum consolidation you can only have 7 VM's on a blade. A blade can like