The plugin is compatible with having or not having vCenter. vCenter is required for certain capabilities restricted by vmware (e.g. live migration). If you do: nodech <hypervisorrange> hypervisor.mgr=<vcenterserver> chtab key=vcenter passwd.username=<vcenteruser> passwd.password=<vcenterpassword> It will start using vCenter (and in fact will join things to vCenter if not joined already).
Managing a lot of hosts directly isn't so difficult (in fact, for the environments that are that large without need for vCenter, xCAT can actually manage those more quickly directly than with vCenter), however 99.9% of the time a large environment will avail themselves of some feature or another not available without vCenter. We can add the clone without template function. The clonevm to template and back was done because some people found the model more straightforward than explicitly knowing how to deal with linked clones and what limitations come along with it, and mapping it to 'clone to master' and 'clone from master' allowed for some default behaviors that tended to provide benefits of linked clones without surprises later. The clone to master function is really a 'clone to vm', followed by 'oh, and change that VM to a 'template'. #xcat on freenode is where some people hang out. From: Jestin Woods <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 08/20/2013 06:16 PM 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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