AFAIK, without (licensed) vCenter, you don't have access to the API endpoints
that xCAT is looking for. So any xCAT command that needs to communicate with
the API will not work. Pure xCAT DB and file manipulation commands will work.
For example mkvm, rsetboot, and rower will not work, but nodeset will.
You can definitely deploy a VM on the (free) ESXi with xCAT, it's just a little
more of a manual process. Once the VM boots, it does PXE just like a physical
node would. So you would need use nodeset to prep the VM for install, then
manually create and power on the the VM in the VI Client. The VM should then
PXE boot and install like a normal cluster node.
Michael
From: Josh Nielsen <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply-To: xCAT Users Mailing list
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Monday, December 8, 2014 at 10:29 AM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Will xCAT work with ESXi 5.5?
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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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<http://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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