I agree with Oliver, this is not a feature of cloudstack. Installs should start with green field hypervisors... Then migrate vm's in by way of template, into cloudstack.
Ahmad On Apr 2, 2013, at 4:59 AM, Oliver Leach <oliver.le...@tatacommunications.com> wrote: > It is most probably feasible to add a cluster managed by Cloudstack but not > recommended or supported. Certainly I would not add an existing cluster as > that could be asking for trouble. From my experience, it has issues with > performance as Cloudstack talks via https to the vc api and is quite chatty > and you may get undesired results, for example, Cloudstack not being able to > manage VMs in virtual center correctly and even possible loss of data. We > tried this in the early days of VMware integration with Cloudstack and the > environment just did not work as expected. Tasks in VC just failed or never > executed correctly. > > > Oliver Leach > Platform Architect > InstaCompute > > > -----Original Message----- > From: venkatesh.a [mailto:venkates...@dmxtechnologies.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 12:46 PM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: RE: Porting VMWare virtual setup into CloudStack > > Hi Oliver > > From you answer can I take its feasible to add current vCenter into > CloudStack but its not recommended. If so any particular reason. > > Thanks and Regards > > Venkatesh.A > > -----Original Message----- > From: Oliver Leach [mailto:oliver.le...@tatacommunications.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 4:49 PM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org; venkates...@dmxtechnologies.com > Subject: RE: Porting VMWare virtual setup into CloudStack > > I would set up a new virtual center and add this to Cloudstack and then one > by one export and import your VMs in to Cloudstack one by one. I would > definitely recommend not updating the database or importing your existing > virtual center in to cloudstack. The export format will need to be OVA. You > should not use the same virtual center that you manage with Cloudstack. > Importing them this way means Cloudstack will track the life cycle of the VMs > however the downside would be you will have a template for each VM you import > which will inevitably take up space on your secondary NFS server and the ESX > datastore. Depending on your size of VMs, depends on how long this will take > and you might have to tweak some global settings if the OVA templates sizes > are large. > > It would be good if you could import them straight in but I do not think > this is possible. > > > Here is an extract from the installation guide. > > 6.4.2. Add Cluster: vSphere > > Host management for vSphere is done through a combination of vCenter and the > CloudStack admin UI. CloudStack requires that all hosts be in a CloudStack > cluster, but the cluster may consist of a single host. As an administrator > you must decide if you would like to use clusters of one host or of multiple > hosts. Clusters of multiple hosts allow for features like live migration. > Clusters also require shared storage such as NFS or iSCSI. > For vSphere servers, we recommend creating the cluster of hosts in vCenter > and then adding the entire cluster to CloudStack. Follow these requirements: > > Do not put more than 8 hosts in a vSphere cluster > Make sure the hypervisor hosts do not have any VMs already running before > you add them to CloudStack. > > > Oliver Leach > Platform Architect > InstaCompute > > -----Original Message----- > From: venkatesh.a [mailto:venkates...@dmxtechnologies.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 11:07 AM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: RE: Porting VMWare virtual setup into CloudStack > > Hi > > In our office we are having VMWare EsXi two Servers with multiple VM's > managed by VCenter. Can we manage Virtual Machines CloudStack by installing > it in one of the Virtual Machines. > > Thanks in Advance > > Best Regards > > Venkatesh.A > > -----Original Message----- > From: rohityada...@gmail.com [mailto:rohityada...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Rohit Yadav > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 7:22 PM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org; venkates...@dmxtechnologies.com > Subject: Re: Porting VMWare virtual setup into CloudStack > > Instances yes. Overall cloud, that will take some time and energy, and a lot > of hacking, there was a proposal sometime back to import existing hosts and > instances to CloudStack which was never implemented, maybe in future. > > Longer way: For each instances, export ova, deploy/start CloudStack, upload > ova and start instances in CloudStack. > > HTH. > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:20 PM, venkatesh.a > <venkates...@dmxtechnologies.com> wrote: >> Hi >> >> >> >> How can I convert existing VMWare virtual setup to >> CloudStack. Is it possible port ? >> >> >> >> Thanks and Regards >> >> >> Venkatesh.A > >
