Now that I have block allocations working (thanks again to everyone who so patiently held my hand through that exercise), I'm playing around with the system and finding that I have more questions.
First off, the "VM Limit" under "Virtual Hosts" -> "Configure Host" seems to have no effect. I have it set to "5" currently for my ESXi machines, in an attempt to force a single block allocation to spread across three virtual hosts, but a 15-VM batch is bringing up 14 machines on one host, and one on another. I also notice that, at least some of the time, the web UI doesn't actually store the number I enter in the VM limit box. Sometimes it works, other times it appears to work, but if I come back to that virtual host and click the "Configure Host" button again, the old value comes back. I wonder if these factors are related. My other question involves access to block reserved machines. Currently I have a couple of block reservations in effect, and I've received the e-mail notice from VCL telling the reserving user that the allocation was successful, but I don't see any way for a user to know how to connect to a machine in one of those blocks. Could it be that a second notification mail is getting dropped somewhere? Or maybe I don't know where to look in the UI? Thanks as always. -m -- Michael Jinks :: [email protected] University of Chicago IT Services
