On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, A. Rich wrote: > dredd> What sorts of "VM-specific" things are you thinking of? ie., from the > dredd> perspective of something "running inside the VM", what is there that > dredd> the configuration management software would even be able to see/detect/ > dredd> manage? > > dredd> What challenge are you trying to overcome? > > Specifically, something that is aware of what physical host that a vm resides > on so that it can tie into things like being able to track serial console > access, hardware contract numbers, PDU/network/fibre/rack allocation etc, and > know when a machine relocates using vmotion or other similar technology. > > A tool that will do all of this would be optimal, but I have a feeling that > asset tracking + change control + config management isn't something that's out > there right now.
this sounds like an inventory problem, not a software configuration problem. just like you can move a logical server (with all it's configs) to a different piece of hardware, and with some servers you can have multiple logical servers run in one serial numbered box (seperate motherboards, so logically multiple systems, but one serial number) you have your virtual machines moving from one physical box to another (sometimes manually, sometimes under automated controls) the inventory type software I have found all has problems with the concepts of multiple servers with one physical piece of hardware (most of them don't want to acknoledge that you may have more than a single NIC or IP address on a box), so I ended up writing my own database to track things. David Lang _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
