Hello Jarrod,
I think we are indeed using the free license. What exactly do you mean
by "doesn't
let us automate it"? Do you mean, basically, that the commands like mkvm
won't work (which is just a wrapper around the VMWare SDK functions right?)
and that (with the free license) we would have to create the VMs manually?
But if so, even once they are created (manually) can xCAT deploy an image
to it via ESX (following the rsetboot, nodeset, rpower instructions in the
wiki) if we are using the free license? Or are you saying xCAT simply will
not be able to deploy anything to a VM at all with the free ESX license?
Thanks,
Josh Nielsen
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Jarrod Johnson <[email protected]>
wrote:
> It will work, but the free license doesn't let us automate it. It
> requires eval or commercial license sadly. This is the case for older ones
> as well.
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Josh Nielsen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I ran into this issue when trying to create a vm I had defined in xCAT in
>> an environment where we have two ESXi 5.5 standalone servers:
>>
>> # mkvm --verbose vm1 -s 100G
>> Error: esx plugin bug, pid 16602, process description: 'xCATd SSL: mkvm
>> to vm1 for root@localhost: esx instance' with error '
>> SOAP Fault:
>> -----------
>> Fault string: Current license or ESXi version prohibits execution of the
>> requested operation.
>> Fault detail: RestrictedVersionFault' while trying to fulfill request for
>> the following nodes: vm1
>>
>> I installed version 5.5 update 2 of the VMWare Perl SDK (as is required)
>> and I can contact the server with this cli command:
>>
>> > vmware-cmd -H esxihost0001.morgan.haib.org -l
>>
>> The documentation only uses 4.1 as an example:
>> http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/XCAT_Virtualization_with_VMWare/.
>> What is the latest version of ESXi that xCAT will work with? If it does
>> support 5.5 do I need to configure some kind of key or license file
>> locally? I already ran my variation on: chtab key=vmware
>> passwd.username="root" passwd.password="cluster" for the xCAT passwd table.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Josh Nielsen
>>
>>
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