Re: VMware provisioning module for vCenter clusters

2012-01-31 Thread Sean Dilda
On 1/31/12 8:46 AM, Aaron Coburn wrote: Sean, You can use the vsphere api to get the file names if you really need them. This is true, and that may very well be the better approach. I am not entirely happy with the method I described earlier, which relies on my own observation of an

Re: VMware provisioning module for vCenter clusters

2012-01-30 Thread Sean Dilda
You can use the vsphere api to get the file names if you really need them. Why does vcl write its own vmx instead of using the apis? vSphere expects programs to use the apis, not to hand craft files.When I wrote Duke's provisioning module to work with vCenter I found it much easier to use

Re: maintenance mode oddity

2010-08-04 Thread Sean Dilda
Thanks! On 8/4/10 12:48 PM, Aaron Peeler wrote: Hello Sean, This might have been a left-over from using machine states. Created the jira issue for it. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-364 Aaron On 7/22/10 1:59 PM, Sean Dilda wrote: I recently noticed that when you set

maintenance mode oddity

2010-07-22 Thread Sean Dilda
I recently noticed that when you set a computer into maintenance mode that it sets the vmhostid to NULL. Does anyone know what the reasoning for this is? This happens in the process function in new.pm During some testing I set a few computers to maintenance mode, then when I set them

Re: VMware Clustering

2010-05-10 Thread Sean Dilda
On 5/10/10 4:53 PM, Tim Cary wrote: Hello, I am wondering if anyone has had experience with VCL running across VMWare Clusters? By clusters I mean a set of physical hosts running VMWare ESX with common storage between them. Issues that I can think of would be: - Can VCL understand if

Re: grep not found

2010-03-15 Thread Sean Dilda
You should verify the PATH environment variable that's set when vcld is started. You may have to manually set it in the init script if your system is stripping it down. On 3/15/10 3:15 PM, Mark Gardner wrote: For some reason, I am getting an error message that grep cannot be found while

Re: Move response checking from provisioning module to OS module

2010-01-20 Thread Sean Dilda
Aaron Peeler wrote: makesshgkh is part of xcat1.3(which is EOL'd) and is used to collect the ssh host keys after the install. xCAT2.X does something different to collect the ssh host keys, so eventually makesshgkh and the original xCAT.pm module will not be needed. Ok, that makes sense.

Re: Move response checking from provisioning module to OS module

2010-01-19 Thread Sean Dilda
Andy Kurth wrote: I would consider a node loaded from a provisioning module's standpoint as the point when the bits are on the node's disk and it has been powered on. After this point, the OS module is responsible. xCAT detecting the boot state would be equivalent to successfully turning on