Jarrod,
Thanks for the reply.
>*FYI, xCAT's vm commands don't require vCenter, though certain functions
like rmigrate and friends are restricted by vmware. Unless the free
license is installed, after which ESXi locks us out of the API (eval mode
does not have this restriction).*
Below is a forward the last interaction we had (December 2014) on the issue
of using the xCAT commands with a standalone ESXi machine, and the errors I
was seeing. If the license type prevents the functioning of the VM xCAT
commands then effectively I cannot use them, since we are using the free
ESXi license.
So I am back to the two questions I posed to Wang then. But thank you for
clarifying.
Regards,
Josh
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From: Jarrod Johnson <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Will xCAT work with ESXi 5.5?
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
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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