Re: showTimeTable function
the
privileges.
select resourcegroup.name,resourcetype.name,type,privnode.name from
resourcegroup,resourcetype,resourcepriv,privnode where
resourcegroupid=resourcegroup.id and resourcetypeid=resourcetype.id and
privnodeid=privnode.id;
Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS Research Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
919-962-9778
-Original Message-
From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 4:52 PM
To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: showTimeTable function
Hi Mike, List,
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Waldron, Michael H
mwald...@email.unc.edu wrote:
Your privilege screen attachments didn't make it to the list.
Ooops. Re-attached it. I made sure that things that can be added to
the Resources are added and marked available, etc.
Probably, the current setup is not clean; but it's the shot gun
approach to ensure that all things are available.
Make sure for the Resources section on the Privileges screen that the
computer groups and the image groups are listed as available.
You shouldn't have to fill in the currentimageid, preferredimageid,
nextimageid, imagerevisionid fields in the computer table.
OK.
If you ever use bare-metal or full blade images in the future, as
opposed to vmware images, you'll want to separate your computer and image
group assignments. The reason being that bare-metal installs use a
different provisioning engine (xCAT), bare-metal images can't be provisioned
on vmware computers and vmware images can't be provisioned on bare-metal
servers. In your case it doesn't matter since you only have vmware image.
For example:
allComputers,newimages,allImages used for bare-metal
allVMComputers, newvmimages, allVMImages used for vmware
Thanks again for the explanation. All these labels are now more
meaningful to me now.
I see. So, in a cleanly-separated. My vm-spawn-1 belongs to only
newvmimages, allVMImages, allVMComputers.
In an attempt to make this work, I just make a lot of things belonging
to a whole lot of other things.
I'm still at this point getting Selection not currently available.
How should I troubleshoot this further ?
Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS Research Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
919-962-9778
-Original Message-
From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 3:01 PM
To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: showTimeTable function
I don't know how the View Time Table plays into things, I've never looked
at that before, mine is currently blank.
Unless I'm not understanding the setup, you have to have as many computers
defined as you want to have instances of your image running. For each
computer you define you assign a unique mac address. To make a reservation
for the image, there has to be an available computer for the reservation to
run on. If you want to have 10 concurrent reservations, you have to have 10
computers available.
The image also must be assigned to an image group, and that image group has
to be mapped to a computer group which contains the computers the image can
run on. There is good explanation of this at the Documentation link on the
VCL home page.
Thanks. I've been trying to follow the documentation on the Images
and Privileges documentation.
The documentation did not mention about creation of each machine like
you described; now I understand that it's needed.
I added vm-spawn-1; with Mac address, etc.
Do you mean the following grouping, etc. I've got (I'm logged in as
user 'admin'):
1) No Apps (Linux) - image.id=10 belongs to {allImages,allVMImages}
2) allImages belongs to {allComputers,newimages,newvmimages}
3) allVMImages belongs to {allComputers,newimages,newvmimages}
4) vmnode2.local (ESXi host) and vm-spawn-1 belong to
{allComputers,newimages,newvmimages}
5) Attached are my Privileges screens.
Do I need to set currentimageid, preferredimageid or nextimageid,
imagerevisionid for vm-spawn-1 ?
I still can't get reservation on No Apps (Linux), when I select
Now it still says Selection currently not available.
Thanks
mysql select * from computer;
++-+-++++--+-+-+--++---+-+---+---+--+---+---+++---+-+---+---+--+--++--++--+-+--+--+
| id | stateid | ownerid | platformid | scheduleid | currentimageid |
preferredimageid | nextimageid | imagerevisionid | RAM | procnumber |
procspeed | network | hostname | IPaddress | privateIPaddress
| eth0macaddress | eth1macaddress | type
RE: showTimeTable function
Nothing obvious is jumping out at me here. I'm running out of ideas, perhaps someone else can chime in. The only other thing I can think of is to verify that your virtual machines are in the 'available' state. Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 919-962-9778 -Original Message- From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 9:41 AM To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: showTimeTable function Thanks again Mike for helping with this. mysql select resourcegroup.name,resourcetype.name,type,privnode.name from resourcegroup,resourcetype,resourcepriv,privnode where resourcegroupid=resourcegroup.id and resourcetypeid=resourcetype.id and privnodeid=privnode.id;; +++-+---+ | name | name | type| name | +++-+---+ | allComputers | computer | available | VCL | | allComputers | computer | administer | VCL | | allComputers | computer | manageGroup | VCL | | allComputers | computer | available | admin | | allComputers | computer | administer | admin | | allComputers | computer | manageGroup | admin | | allComputers | computer | available | newimages | | allComputers | computer | administer | newimages | | allComputers | computer | manageGroup | newimages | | newimages | computer | available | VCL | | newimages | computer | administer | VCL | | newimages | computer | manageGroup | VCL | | newimages | computer | available | admin | | newimages | computer | administer | admin | | newimages | computer | manageGroup | admin | | newimages | computer | available | newimages | | newimages | computer | administer | newimages | | newimages | computer | manageGroup | newimages | | newvmimages| computer | available | VCL | | newvmimages| computer | administer | VCL | | newvmimages| computer | manageGroup | VCL | | newvmimages| computer | available | admin | | newvmimages| computer | administer | admin | | newvmimages| computer | manageGroup | admin | | newvmimages| computer | available | newimages | | newvmimages| computer | administer | newimages | | newvmimages| computer | manageGroup | newimages | | allImages | image | available | VCL | | allImages | image | administer | VCL | | allImages | image | manageGroup | VCL | | allImages | image | available | admin | | allImages | image | administer | admin | | allImages | image | manageGroup | admin | | allImages | image | available | newimages | | allImages | image | administer | newimages | | allImages | image | manageGroup | newimages | | allVMimages| image | available | VCL | | allVMimages| image | administer | VCL | | allVMimages| image | manageGroup | VCL | | allVMimages| image | available | admin | | allVMimages| image | administer | admin | | allVMimages| image | manageGroup | admin | | allVMimages| image | available | newimages | | allVMimages| image | administer | newimages | | allVMimages| image | manageGroup | newimages | | allSchedules | schedule | available | VCL | | allSchedules | schedule | administer | VCL | | allSchedules | schedule | manageGroup | VCL | | allSchedules | schedule | available | admin | | allSchedules | schedule | administer | admin | | allSchedules | schedule | manageGroup | admin | | allSchedules | schedule | available | newimages | | allSchedules | schedule | administer | newimages | | allSchedules | schedule | manageGroup | newimages | | allManagementNodes | managementnode | available | VCL | | allManagementNodes | managementnode | administer | VCL | | allManagementNodes | managementnode | manageGroup | VCL | | allManagementNodes | managementnode | available | admin | | allManagementNodes | managementnode | administer | admin | | allManagementNodes | managementnode | manageGroup | admin | | allManagementNodes
Re: showTimeTable function
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike has already mentioned some of these items, but I'll list them all out together to make it easier to check. - -put No Apps(Linux) in the allVMimages group - -create a new computer group named All VMs - -map the allVMimages image group to the All VMs computer group - -put vm-spawn-1 and any other VMs you've created in the All VMs computer group - -add All VMs to the VCL node on the privilege tree with the available attribute - -map the AllManagementNodes management node group to the All VMs computer group - -make sure the computer specs for vm-spawn-1 are greater than or equal to the image specs for No Apps(Linux) - -make sure vm-spawn-1 is in the available state - -make sure vm-spawn-1 is assigned to ESXi host in the Virtual Hosts part of the site - -make sure vcld is running on your management node and is regularly checking in to the database - -make sure your management node is in the AllManagementNodes group - -make sure the schedule associated with vm-spawn-1 is available during the time you've selected for your reservation (if you haven't messed with your schedules, this shouldn't be an issue) I think I covered everything. Let us know what you find. Josh On Wednesday June 09, 2010, Waldron, Michael H wrote: Nothing obvious is jumping out at me here. I'm running out of ideas, perhaps someone else can chime in. The only other thing I can think of is to verify that your virtual machines are in the 'available' state. Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 919-962-9778 -Original Message- From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 9:41 AM To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: showTimeTable function Thanks again Mike for helping with this. mysql select resourcegroup.name,resourcetype.name,type,privnode.name from resourcegroup,resourcetype,resourcepriv,privnode where resourcegroupid=resourcegroup.id and resourcetypeid=resourcetype.id and privnodeid=privnode.id;; +++-+---+ | name | name | type| name | +++-+---+ | allComputers | computer | available | VCL | | allComputers | computer | administer | VCL | | allComputers | computer | manageGroup | VCL | | allComputers | computer | available | admin | | allComputers | computer | administer | admin | | allComputers | computer | manageGroup | admin | | allComputers | computer | available | newimages | | allComputers | computer | administer | newimages | | allComputers | computer | manageGroup | newimages | | newimages | computer | available | VCL | | newimages | computer | administer | VCL | | newimages | computer | manageGroup | VCL | | newimages | computer | available | admin | | newimages | computer | administer | admin | | newimages | computer | manageGroup | admin | | newimages | computer | available | newimages | | newimages | computer | administer | newimages | | newimages | computer | manageGroup | newimages | | newvmimages| computer | available | VCL | | newvmimages| computer | administer | VCL | | newvmimages| computer | manageGroup | VCL | | newvmimages| computer | available | admin | | newvmimages| computer | administer | admin | | newvmimages| computer | manageGroup | admin | | newvmimages| computer | available | newimages | | newvmimages| computer | administer | newimages | | newvmimages| computer | manageGroup | newimages | | allImages | image | available | VCL | | allImages | image | administer | VCL | | allImages | image | manageGroup | VCL | | allImages | image | available | admin | | allImages | image | administer | admin | | allImages | image | manageGroup | admin | | allImages | image | available | newimages | | allImages | image | administer | newimages | | allImages | image | manageGroup | newimages | | allVMimages| image | available | VCL | | allVMimages| image | administer | VCL | | allVMimages| image | manageGroup | VCL | | allVMimages| image
Re: showTimeTable function
Mike has already mentioned some of these items, but I'll list them all out together to make it easier to check. - -put No Apps(Linux) in the allVMimages group It belong to allVMImages (and nothing else) - -create a new computer group named All VMs - -map the allVMimages image group to the All VMs computer group allVMImags maps to AllVMs and nothing else. - -put vm-spawn-1 and any other VMs you've created in the All VMs computer group vm-spawn-1 and vm-base10-v1 are grouped to AllVMs vmnode2.local (my ESXi host) is mapped to allComputers (and nothing else). - -add All VMs to the VCL node on the privilege tree with the available attribute Completed this one. - -map the AllManagementNodes management node group to the All VMs computer group allManagementNodes is mapped to AllVMs and nothing else. - -make sure the computer specs for vm-spawn-1 are greater than or equal to the image specs for No Apps(Linux) They are equal. - -make sure vm-spawn-1 is in the available state Yes. - -make sure vm-spawn-1 is assigned to ESXi host in the Virtual Hosts part of the site Yes. - -make sure vcld is running on your management node and is regularly checking in to the database Yes. - -make sure your management node is in the AllManagementNodes group Yes. - -make sure the schedule associated with vm-spawn-1 is available during the time you've selected for your reservation (if you haven't messed with your schedules, this shouldn't be an issue) Did not mess with this. I think it's 24x7. And now when I select No Apps (Linux) it says Estimated Load Time 5 Minutes. Thanks Mike, Josh, List. I see My Reservation eventually failed. It is a progress. Thanks I think I covered everything. Let us know what you find. Josh On Wednesday June 09, 2010, Waldron, Michael H wrote: Nothing obvious is jumping out at me here. I'm running out of ideas, perhaps someone else can chime in. The only other thing I can think of is to verify that your virtual machines are in the 'available' state. Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 919-962-9778 -Original Message- From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 9:41 AM To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: showTimeTable function Thanks again Mike for helping with this. mysql select resourcegroup.name,resourcetype.name,type,privnode.name from resourcegroup,resourcetype,resourcepriv,privnode where resourcegroupid=resourcegroup.id and resourcetypeid=resourcetype.id and privnodeid=privnode.id;; +++-+---+ | name | name | type | name | +++-+---+ | allComputers | computer | available | VCL | | allComputers | computer | administer | VCL | | allComputers | computer | manageGroup | VCL | | allComputers | computer | available | admin | | allComputers | computer | administer | admin | | allComputers | computer | manageGroup | admin | | allComputers | computer | available | newimages | | allComputers | computer | administer | newimages | | allComputers | computer | manageGroup | newimages | | newimages | computer | available | VCL | | newimages | computer | administer | VCL | | newimages | computer | manageGroup | VCL | | newimages | computer | available | admin | | newimages | computer | administer | admin | | newimages | computer | manageGroup | admin | | newimages | computer | available | newimages | | newimages | computer | administer | newimages | | newimages | computer | manageGroup | newimages | | newvmimages | computer | available | VCL | | newvmimages | computer | administer | VCL | | newvmimages | computer | manageGroup | VCL | | newvmimages | computer | available | admin | | newvmimages | computer | administer | admin | | newvmimages | computer | manageGroup | admin | | newvmimages | computer | available | newimages | | newvmimages | computer | administer | newimages | | newvmimages | computer | manageGroup | newimages | | allImages | image | available | VCL | | allImages | image | administer | VCL | | allImages | image | manageGroup | VCL | | allImages | image | available | admin | | allImages | image
RE: showTimeTable function
The ESXi host won't directly run your image, you have to define virtual
machines and assign them to the ESXi host, which will then spin these up to run
the image.
Basic steps:
- Click Manage Computers, Edit Computer Information, Submit
- Add
- Fill in hostname, IP address, RAM, Proc Speed, Network Speed, select 'virtual
machine' under Type, VMWare provisioning engine, and appropriate computer group.
- Assign mac addresses for public and private network interfaces of the virtual
machine.
- Update the computer table in the database with this info for the virtual
machine and assign the values to the fields eth0macaddress, eth1macaddress.
- Click Virtual Hosts
- Select your ESXi host
- Click Configure Host
- Select the virtual machine(s) in the Unassigned VMs column and click Add.
Hopefully I didn't leave out any steps.
Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS Research Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
919-962-9778
-Original Message-
From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 11:54 PM
To: vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org; vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
Cc: My LinuxHAList
Subject: showTimeTable function
Hi,
I have a ESXi host (computer.id=1); I have an image [ No Apps(Linux) ]
which was successfully captured (I think).
I tried to make Reservation using the now button, it says Selection
currently not available; then I clicked the View Time Table, no
computers show up.
The ESXi host is in vmhostinuse state (which is state.id=20) -- which
ESXi host needs to be in.
I'm assuming that my ESXi host is supposed to show up on I hit the
View Time Table if I intend it to be able to run No Apps (Linux).
Is this true ?
With ESXi host in the state of vmhostinuse, I don't think it will ever
show up, because the state.id=20.
Here are the code snippets:
if($computer_platformids[$id] != $platformid ||
($computerData[$id][stateid] != 2
$computerData[$id][stateid] != 3
$computerData[$id][stateid] != 6
$computerData[$id][stateid] != 8) ||
$computerData[$id][ram]
$imageData[$imageid][minram] ||
$computerData[$id][procnumber]
$imageData[$imageid][minprocnumber] ||
$computerData[$id][procspeed]
$imageData[$imageid][minprocspeed] ||
$computerData[$id][network]
$imageData[$imageid][minnetwork] ||
! in_array($id, $mappedcomputers)) {
continue;
}
I could have completely misunderstood what View Time Table should show.
I'm expecting the time tables to show ESXi host(s) that are able to
run No Apps (Linux).
If I'm wrong, what is View Time Table designed to show ?
Thanks
Re: showTimeTable function
Hi Mike, List,
Apparently, my understanding is still a bit off.
Since I've captured the image successfully No Apps (Linux), name:
vmwarelinux-base10-v1, with the appropriate files copied over to
$DATASTORE/golden/vmwarelinux-base10-v1/
I'm thinking that I'll be able to spawn as many instance of the No
Apps (Linux) as I configure the ESXi to handle.
That was the idea behind capturing an image right ? How would I be
able to achieve that ?
I create another computer called vm-tospawn, populate the mac
addresses field and assign it to my only ESXi host.
Nothing shows up on the View Time Table. What are the fields that
say vm-tospawn is associated with the No Apps (Linux) image I
captured ? If I populate the mac address fields, if I spawn 2 version
of it, wouldn't I cause conflicts on the Mac address ?
I still need some guidance on how to go from successful image capture
to launch multiple of them on ESXi host.
What am I missing ?
Thanks
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Waldron, Michael H
mwald...@email.unc.edu wrote:
The ESXi host won't directly run your image, you have to define virtual
machines and assign them to the ESXi host, which will then spin these up to
run the image.
Basic steps:
- Click Manage Computers, Edit Computer Information, Submit
- Add
- Fill in hostname, IP address, RAM, Proc Speed, Network Speed, select
'virtual machine' under Type, VMWare provisioning engine, and appropriate
computer group.
- Assign mac addresses for public and private network interfaces of the
virtual machine.
- Update the computer table in the database with this info for the virtual
machine and assign the values to the fields eth0macaddress, eth1macaddress.
- Click Virtual Hosts
- Select your ESXi host
- Click Configure Host
- Select the virtual machine(s) in the Unassigned VMs column and click Add.
Hopefully I didn't leave out any steps.
Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS Research Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
919-962-9778
-Original Message-
From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 11:54 PM
To: vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org; vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
Cc: My LinuxHAList
Subject: showTimeTable function
Hi,
I have a ESXi host (computer.id=1); I have an image [ No Apps(Linux) ]
which was successfully captured (I think).
I tried to make Reservation using the now button, it says Selection
currently not available; then I clicked the View Time Table, no
computers show up.
The ESXi host is in vmhostinuse state (which is state.id=20) -- which
ESXi host needs to be in.
I'm assuming that my ESXi host is supposed to show up on I hit the
View Time Table if I intend it to be able to run No Apps (Linux).
Is this true ?
With ESXi host in the state of vmhostinuse, I don't think it will ever
show up, because the state.id=20.
Here are the code snippets:
if($computer_platformids[$id] != $platformid ||
($computerData[$id][stateid] != 2
$computerData[$id][stateid] != 3
$computerData[$id][stateid] != 6
$computerData[$id][stateid] != 8) ||
$computerData[$id][ram]
$imageData[$imageid][minram] ||
$computerData[$id][procnumber]
$imageData[$imageid][minprocnumber] ||
$computerData[$id][procspeed]
$imageData[$imageid][minprocspeed] ||
$computerData[$id][network]
$imageData[$imageid][minnetwork] ||
! in_array($id, $mappedcomputers)) {
continue;
}
I could have completely misunderstood what View Time Table should show.
I'm expecting the time tables to show ESXi host(s) that are able to
run No Apps (Linux).
If I'm wrong, what is View Time Table designed to show ?
Thanks
RE: showTimeTable function
I don't know how the View Time Table plays into things, I've never looked at
that before, mine is currently blank.
Unless I'm not understanding the setup, you have to have as many computers
defined as you want to have instances of your image running. For each computer
you define you assign a unique mac address. To make a reservation for the
image, there has to be an available computer for the reservation to run on. If
you want to have 10 concurrent reservations, you have to have 10 computers
available.
The image also must be assigned to an image group, and that image group has to
be mapped to a computer group which contains the computers the image can run
on. There is good explanation of this at the Documentation link on the VCL home
page.
Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS Research Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
919-962-9778
-Original Message-
From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 12:15 PM
To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: showTimeTable function
Hi Mike, List,
Apparently, my understanding is still a bit off.
Since I've captured the image successfully No Apps (Linux), name:
vmwarelinux-base10-v1, with the appropriate files copied over to
$DATASTORE/golden/vmwarelinux-base10-v1/
I'm thinking that I'll be able to spawn as many instance of the No
Apps (Linux) as I configure the ESXi to handle.
That was the idea behind capturing an image right ? How would I be
able to achieve that ?
I create another computer called vm-tospawn, populate the mac
addresses field and assign it to my only ESXi host.
Nothing shows up on the View Time Table. What are the fields that
say vm-tospawn is associated with the No Apps (Linux) image I
captured ? If I populate the mac address fields, if I spawn 2 version
of it, wouldn't I cause conflicts on the Mac address ?
I still need some guidance on how to go from successful image capture
to launch multiple of them on ESXi host.
What am I missing ?
Thanks
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Waldron, Michael H
mwald...@email.unc.edu wrote:
The ESXi host won't directly run your image, you have to define virtual
machines and assign them to the ESXi host, which will then spin these up to
run the image.
Basic steps:
- Click Manage Computers, Edit Computer Information, Submit
- Add
- Fill in hostname, IP address, RAM, Proc Speed, Network Speed, select
'virtual machine' under Type, VMWare provisioning engine, and appropriate
computer group.
- Assign mac addresses for public and private network interfaces of the
virtual machine.
- Update the computer table in the database with this info for the virtual
machine and assign the values to the fields eth0macaddress, eth1macaddress.
- Click Virtual Hosts
- Select your ESXi host
- Click Configure Host
- Select the virtual machine(s) in the Unassigned VMs column and click Add.
Hopefully I didn't leave out any steps.
Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS Research Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
919-962-9778
-Original Message-
From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 11:54 PM
To: vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org; vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
Cc: My LinuxHAList
Subject: showTimeTable function
Hi,
I have a ESXi host (computer.id=1); I have an image [ No Apps(Linux) ]
which was successfully captured (I think).
I tried to make Reservation using the now button, it says Selection
currently not available; then I clicked the View Time Table, no
computers show up.
The ESXi host is in vmhostinuse state (which is state.id=20) -- which
ESXi host needs to be in.
I'm assuming that my ESXi host is supposed to show up on I hit the
View Time Table if I intend it to be able to run No Apps (Linux).
Is this true ?
With ESXi host in the state of vmhostinuse, I don't think it will ever
show up, because the state.id=20.
Here are the code snippets:
if($computer_platformids[$id] != $platformid ||
($computerData[$id][stateid] != 2
$computerData[$id][stateid] != 3
$computerData[$id][stateid] != 6
$computerData[$id][stateid] != 8) ||
$computerData[$id][ram]
$imageData[$imageid][minram] ||
$computerData[$id][procnumber]
$imageData[$imageid][minprocnumber] ||
$computerData[$id][procspeed]
$imageData[$imageid][minprocspeed] ||
$computerData[$id][network]
$imageData[$imageid][minnetwork] ||
! in_array($id, $mappedcomputers)) {
continue;
}
I could have completely misunderstood what View Time Table should show.
I'm expecting the time tables
Re: showTimeTable function
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
919-962-9778
-Original Message-
From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 12:15 PM
To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: showTimeTable function
Hi Mike, List,
Apparently, my understanding is still a bit off.
Since I've captured the image successfully No Apps (Linux), name:
vmwarelinux-base10-v1, with the appropriate files copied over to
$DATASTORE/golden/vmwarelinux-base10-v1/
I'm thinking that I'll be able to spawn as many instance of the No
Apps (Linux) as I configure the ESXi to handle.
That was the idea behind capturing an image right ? How would I be
able to achieve that ?
I create another computer called vm-tospawn, populate the mac
addresses field and assign it to my only ESXi host.
Nothing shows up on the View Time Table. What are the fields that
say vm-tospawn is associated with the No Apps (Linux) image I
captured ? If I populate the mac address fields, if I spawn 2 version
of it, wouldn't I cause conflicts on the Mac address ?
I still need some guidance on how to go from successful image capture
to launch multiple of them on ESXi host.
What am I missing ?
Thanks
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Waldron, Michael H
mwald...@email.unc.edu wrote:
The ESXi host won't directly run your image, you have to define virtual
machines and assign them to the ESXi host, which will then spin these up to
run the image.
Basic steps:
- Click Manage Computers, Edit Computer Information, Submit
- Add
- Fill in hostname, IP address, RAM, Proc Speed, Network Speed, select
'virtual machine' under Type, VMWare provisioning engine, and appropriate
computer group.
- Assign mac addresses for public and private network interfaces of the
virtual machine.
- Update the computer table in the database with this info for the virtual
machine and assign the values to the fields eth0macaddress, eth1macaddress.
- Click Virtual Hosts
- Select your ESXi host
- Click Configure Host
- Select the virtual machine(s) in the Unassigned VMs column and click Add.
Hopefully I didn't leave out any steps.
Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS Research Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
919-962-9778
-Original Message-
From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 11:54 PM
To: vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org; vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
Cc: My LinuxHAList
Subject: showTimeTable function
Hi,
I have a ESXi host (computer.id=1); I have an image [ No Apps(Linux) ]
which was successfully captured (I think).
I tried to make Reservation using the now button, it says Selection
currently not available; then I clicked the View Time Table, no
computers show up.
The ESXi host is in vmhostinuse state (which is state.id=20) -- which
ESXi host needs to be in.
I'm assuming that my ESXi host is supposed to show up on I hit the
View Time Table if I intend it to be able to run No Apps (Linux).
Is this true ?
With ESXi host in the state of vmhostinuse, I don't think it will ever
show up, because the state.id=20.
Here are the code snippets:
if($computer_platformids[$id] != $platformid ||
($computerData[$id][stateid] != 2
$computerData[$id][stateid] != 3
$computerData[$id][stateid] != 6
$computerData[$id][stateid] != 8) ||
$computerData[$id][ram]
$imageData[$imageid][minram] ||
$computerData[$id][procnumber]
$imageData[$imageid][minprocnumber] ||
$computerData[$id][procspeed]
$imageData[$imageid][minprocspeed] ||
$computerData[$id][network]
$imageData[$imageid][minnetwork] ||
! in_array($id, $mappedcomputers)) {
continue;
}
I could have completely misunderstood what View Time Table should show.
I'm expecting the time tables to show ESXi host(s) that are able to
run No Apps (Linux).
If I'm wrong, what is View Time Table designed to show ?
Thanks
Re: showTimeTable function
Hi Mike, List,
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Waldron, Michael H
mwald...@email.unc.edu wrote:
Your privilege screen attachments didn't make it to the list.
Ooops. Re-attached it. I made sure that things that can be added to
the Resources are added and marked available, etc.
Probably, the current setup is not clean; but it's the shot gun
approach to ensure that all things are available.
Make sure for the Resources section on the Privileges screen that the
computer groups and the image groups are listed as available.
You shouldn't have to fill in the currentimageid, preferredimageid,
nextimageid, imagerevisionid fields in the computer table.
OK.
If you ever use bare-metal or full blade images in the future, as opposed
to vmware images, you'll want to separate your computer and image group
assignments. The reason being that bare-metal installs use a different
provisioning engine (xCAT), bare-metal images can't be provisioned on vmware
computers and vmware images can't be provisioned on bare-metal servers. In
your case it doesn't matter since you only have vmware image.
For example:
allComputers,newimages,allImages used for bare-metal
allVMComputers, newvmimages, allVMImages used for vmware
Thanks again for the explanation. All these labels are now more
meaningful to me now.
I see. So, in a cleanly-separated. My vm-spawn-1 belongs to only
newvmimages, allVMImages, allVMComputers.
In an attempt to make this work, I just make a lot of things belonging
to a whole lot of other things.
I'm still at this point getting Selection not currently available.
How should I troubleshoot this further ?
Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS Research Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
919-962-9778
-Original Message-
From: My LinuxHAList [mailto:mylinuxhal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 3:01 PM
To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: showTimeTable function
I don't know how the View Time Table plays into things, I've never looked at
that before, mine is currently blank.
Unless I'm not understanding the setup, you have to have as many computers
defined as you want to have instances of your image running. For each
computer you define you assign a unique mac address. To make a reservation
for the image, there has to be an available computer for the reservation to
run on. If you want to have 10 concurrent reservations, you have to have 10
computers available.
The image also must be assigned to an image group, and that image group has
to be mapped to a computer group which contains the computers the image can
run on. There is good explanation of this at the Documentation link on the
VCL home page.
Thanks. I've been trying to follow the documentation on the Images
and Privileges documentation.
The documentation did not mention about creation of each machine like
you described; now I understand that it's needed.
I added vm-spawn-1; with Mac address, etc.
Do you mean the following grouping, etc. I've got (I'm logged in as
user 'admin'):
1) No Apps (Linux) - image.id=10 belongs to {allImages,allVMImages}
2) allImages belongs to {allComputers,newimages,newvmimages}
3) allVMImages belongs to {allComputers,newimages,newvmimages}
4) vmnode2.local (ESXi host) and vm-spawn-1 belong to
{allComputers,newimages,newvmimages}
5) Attached are my Privileges screens.
Do I need to set currentimageid, preferredimageid or nextimageid,
imagerevisionid for vm-spawn-1 ?
I still can't get reservation on No Apps (Linux), when I select
Now it still says Selection currently not available.
Thanks
mysql select * from computer;
++-+-++++--+-+-+--++---+-+---+---+--+---+---+++---+-+---+---+--+--++--++--+-+--+--+
| id | stateid | ownerid | platformid | scheduleid | currentimageid |
preferredimageid | nextimageid | imagerevisionid | RAM | procnumber |
procspeed | network | hostname | IPaddress | privateIPaddress
| eth0macaddress | eth1macaddress | type |
provisioningid | drivetype | deleted | notes | lastcheck | location |
dsa | dsapub | rsa | rsapub | host | hostpub | vmhostid | vmtypeid |
++-+-++++--+-+-+--++---+-+---+---+--+---+---+++---+-+---+---+--+--++--++--+-+--+--+
| 1 | 20 | 1 | 1
