Thanks Josh. So far I have not added anything to manage computers so I just have add single computer and multiple computer. When you refer to "the computer" you have created for your vcenter are you specifically referring to the physical server that we have that is running vcenter? I'm following the directions at the link below but it seems not to be geared towards using vcenter. What would the owner field be? Thanks for all your help.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/VCL +2.3+-+Further+Steps+if+Using+VMware On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Josh Thompson <[email protected]>wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > John, > > First, you need to create a new VM Host Profile or modify an existing one > to > match your setup. When using vCenter, you need to set a Resource Path. > Hover > over the ? icon next to that field for a description of how to set it. You > can leave the Image field blank. You will need to set a value for each of > the > * items. You'll also need to fill in the Username and Password fields. > > Next, you need to go to Manage Computers->Edit Computer Information and > click > Edit next to the "computer" you have created for your vCenter system. Set > the > Provisioning Engine to "None", the State to "vmhostinuse", and set the VM > Host > Profile to the one you just configured in the previous step. The > information > you found about setting the computer to the vmhostinuse state in the > database > is outdated. You'll want to set the RAM for the system to something quite > high as VCL does not overbook the RAM of a VM host. So, for a vCenter > "Host" > you need to set it to the combined RAM of all the nodes under vCenter (note > to other reading this - increasing this value for a non vCenter host to > force > overbooking does not work because vcld will later update the RAM to the > real > value of the node). > > I'm not as familiar with how VCL works with vCenter clusters as others are. > The Resource Path may be what distinguishes this. Andy or Aaron C. can > probably give more info. > > Josh > > On Monday, November 04, 2013 4:28:02 PM John Peters wrote: > > I'm reading some more posts and starting to gain a better understanding. > So > > from what I have read, I need to manage computers then choose either > blade > > lab or virtual machine. What I'm confused about is I read on this list > that > > vcl can see vcenter as one big host so I can take advantage of vmotion > etc. > > DO I choose lab for type and then per the instructions edit it to > > cmwareinuse? basically I'm trying to use the vmware vcenter profile. I'm > > just not clear by reading the documentation. Thanks. Any help is > > appreciated. > > > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 3:35 PM, John Peters <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Well, I found the below link whichs helps but basically I want to be > > > able to turn on DRS and vmotion from the vshpere client so do I need a > > > vcenter host profile or do I need a profile for each host under that > > > cluster. SO if my datacenter is PMA 440 -> Academic Cluster under > > > vsphereclient , would the resource path be / PMA 440/Academic Cluster ? > > > do the spaces matter? > > > > > > link was very helpful thank you > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/VMware+Configuration > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:53 PM, John Peters <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> Hello all. > > >> > > >> I'm at the point in my vcl install where I need to add vm hosts. In > our > > >> vcenter we have three Clusters, I'd like to add this VCL to the > > >> "Academic" Cluster. I'm not 100% sure on what fields I need to fill in > > >> under Virtual Hosts -> VM Host profiles. DO i need to choose > > >> VcenterProfile and if so, Basically we have a shared iscsi network > > >> storage and the three esxi hosts 5.1 are connected to the "Academic" > > >> cluster. I'm not to sure on what to put in Resource path VMworking > > >> Directory Path. Any help or sample configurations are appreciated. > > >> perhaps some screen shots would help. > - -- > - ------------------------------- > Josh Thompson > VCL Developer > North Carolina State University > > my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu > > All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which > are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public > Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlJ4+7cACgkQV/LQcNdtPQO+WQCeL9MI97GTVDC4xnEdgGUA1Sn2 > td4An1FKvgxmWfd3mA1JYdyjyJ5Hdd0V > =QUSa > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
