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
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