Well, It IS a wiki... easily editable. Smugness aside, this kind of feedback is what makes these things easier for others.
Thanks, Brad On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 21:28 +0200, Lars Tunkrans wrote: > Just a quick note to confirm that I got the VM deployments with the > vda-service to run well today. > > One nit-pick on the VDA Cookbook , > (http://wiki.sun-rays.org/index.php/VDA_Cookbook) > it does not tell you to create the "Templates" folder beside the > Pools - folders. > and it does not tell you to move your golden image to the Templates > folder that is presupposed by the shipped vda.properties config file. > > > Regards > > //Lars > > > Lars Tunkrans wrote: > > > > Hi again, > > > > Right , So I Probably have created the Pools In the wrong place > > . My Bad Pools are visable in the hosts and Clusters View. > > I will try to create them in the VM&T view tomorrow. I > > searched the SQL database tables and at the moment I do have > > the pools under /datacenter/hosts/... that is a fact. > > Its also interesting to learn that the views in the VI client > > corresponds to the the branches of the vmware resource tree. > > Thanks both Cyrille and Dirk for showing me where I went down the > > wrong branch. > > > > //Lars > > > > > > Cyrille Moureaux wrote: > >> Hi Lars, > >>> > >>> I found out the hard way today that the path names to the > >>> resource Pools in the vda.properties file > >>> can become rather long vinded. > >>> > >>> /datacenter_name/host/cluster_name/Resources/Pool > >>> /datacenter_name/host/cluster_name/Resources/Pool-Kiosk > >>> > >>> was the end result of the investigation . This was using the > >>> newly released ESX 3.02 VI-center 2.01 combo. > >>> > >> These paths look wrong (not that you won't have long winded paths > >> even with the right ones, though). The pool folders should be in the > >> Virtual Machines & Templates view, not in the Hosts & Clusters one. > >> The VM&T view is represented in path terms with the prefix > >> /<datacenter>/vm, while the H&C view is represented with > >> /<datacenter>/host. > >> > >> So you should have just one path in your vda.properties starting with > >> /<datacenter>/host, which is the cluster path > >> (/<datacenter>/host/<cluster>), and a bunch of paths for your pool > >> folders and their templates looking like /<datacenter>/vm/<pool> and > >> /<datacenter>/vm/<template>. > >> > >>> I am also having a problem with the vda-service that I dont > >>> understand yet. > >>> > >>> The vda-service in the VI-center machine thats trying to use > >>> http://localhost/sdk is reporting in the log file that it cant > >>> find the method "CreateFolder" > >>> > >>> I assume this is some sort of misconfiguration I have done that > >>> the "vda-service test" script does not find or check for. > >>> At least the SDK programming guide for VI center 2.01 states > >>> that the " CreateFolder" method is supposed to be there. > >>> > >>> anyone got a clue ? > >> > >> That looks strange indeed, but might be related to the fact that your > >> paths are not correct, as I indicated above. I didn't check, but it's > >> possible that the "Resources" sub-path you're pointing to doesn't > >> allow the creation of sub-folders (such as Pool or Pool-Kiosk), and > >> thus you're getting that error. Please try again with the correct > >> paths, and if it still doesn't work, please give us the full stack > >> information for the error which appears in the log and we'll try and > >> see what's going wrong. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Cyrille > >> _______________________________________________ > >> SunRay-Users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SunRay-Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users Brad Lackey Desktop Product Lead US Software Practice (720) 548-3339 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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