Thanks Michael, that is useful information. We may end up using VMWare's
own provisioning tools instead in this case.
-Josh
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Fenn, Michael <
[email protected]> wrote:
> 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]>
> Reply-To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, December 8, 2014 at 10:29 AM
> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[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]
> > 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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