NetApp has demonstrated at their Kilo-client lab in Raleigh, that
ESX3i is PXE installable on a large scale (>500) blades. I've asked
them to send me any notes they can share with the community on how
they made this work.
Are you able to have VCL deploy VMs onto pre-installed ESX3i servers
with the esx.pm module?
Best,
Brian
Brian Bouterse
Secure Open Systems Initiative
919.698.8796
On Apr 16, 2009, at 10:00 AM, 杨杰 wrote:
God. It sounds like that i had spent mutiple days on a complex task.
We are also trying to drive esx3i to operate the VMs through VCL
now. It is
keeping pace with the provisioning of the esx3i.
In addition, I have seen some information to install the esx3i
automatically
through pxe, but it has not been proved proper till now. I will have
a try
later and tell you folks if any achievement.
The link is as follows:
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-6824
you can also see the links in that site.
Thank you so much.
2009/4/16 Brian Bouterse <bmbou...@ncsu.edu>
No virtual center is not required in any way for ESX 3i. When you
say
you're installing it for a month, do you mean you've downloaded the
ESX3i
.iso installer from vmware, burned it to a CD, and am installing it
from the
CD? ESX 3i has to be installed manually today, VCL cannot "deploy"
the ESX
3i hypervisor onto bare metal through any provisioning technique
(xcat, esx,
etc ...).
xcat isn't well suited to managing ESX resources. This is why the
ESX
provisioning module (esx.pm) was written to use the VMware API to
drive
VMware resources (ESX and ESX 3i). Are you using the esx.pm module?
Best,
Brian
Brian Bouterse
Secure Open Systems Initiative
919.698.8796
On Apr 15, 2009, at 10:51 PM, 杨杰 wrote:
I have been trying to install a VMware ESXi Server to a bare metal
machine
for a month, but things are not going on well.
I am using VCL1.6+xCAT1.3 now. How could i make it in the current
environment ? In addition, i got from the vmware bbs that the
virtual
center
is demanded to install the esxi automatically. Should i install the
virtual
center ?
I got some information from the mail some days ago that the
function of
install esxi is not supported by xcat1.3 completely, and there
would be a
version of vcl which could support xcat2.1 recently. Is it right ?
And
when
or where could i get it ?
Thank you !
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Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong
University
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Yang Jie（杨杰）
Team of MRMSS, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong
University
TEL: +8613468883723;029-82665263 EXT.24
MSN: xtyangjie2...@yahoo.com.cn
E-mail: xtyang...@gmail.com
