There's no other xCAT doc could help you for the esxi management. Jarrod could help you. For the clone and migration, the vcenter needs be included. And read the code /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/esx.pm should be helpful for you.
Thanks Best Regards ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Tel: 86-10-82453455 Email: [email protected] Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 From: Jestin Woods <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 2013/08/21 06:13 Subject: [xcat-user] Looking for more documentation on Vmware integration Hi - I'm new to xcat and looking at using it to manage a fairly large infrastructure. I'm initially focused on the vmware integration, and after playing around with it in dev, I have several questions and I'm wondering if someone can point me in the right direction. So far I've followed the documentation here http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_Virtualization_with_VMWare , but I looking for more. For example: Is there a direct communication path to vcenter? Hitting esxi directly seems as though it will have its own limitations. For example, I can see how managing a few hundred esxi hosts will quickly become difficult. Is there a way to assign VMs to resource pools? I've been able to set vmcluster, and that works, but I don't see an equivalent for things like datacenters and resource pools. Is there a way to clone a vm without using a template? Like for example, I want to do the equivalent of selecting a VM in vcenter and choosing the Clone option (I believe this goes back to the direct vcenter communication). Anyway, I'm pretty excited to have found xcat and I'm hoping I can find solutions to the problems listed above. If anyone can answer any of my questions, or better yet, point me at some documentation that addresses them, it would be greatly appreciated. Also, is no one on irc? Is there a channel and I'm just not finding it? Cheers, Jestin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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