That's fine, but just for some clarification, I meant a confluent plugin. It connects to vCenter using whatever credentials you would normally use to log in to do power operations and such. So you shouldn't need admin rights in vCenter. ________________________________ From: Noah, Stuart <stuart.n...@csmc.edu> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2025 4:53 PM To: Jarrod Johnson <jjohns...@lenovo.com>; xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: RE: [External] [xcat-user] Confluent: Are there any tricks to Deploy Images to VMs Running under ESX?
One of our greatest obstacles is that my team does not have admin rights on the ESX. So, we have no ability to install plugins. Even for our development environment, we would have to submit a request, and it would not be unusual for it to still be in the approval process in 2026. So, everything that we do has to treat the nodes as if they were generic computers with no BMC and the only additional software being VMware tools. :-| From: Jarrod Johnson <jjohns...@lenovo.com> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2025 10:35 AM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Noah, Stuart <stuart.n...@csmc.edu> Subject: Re: [External] [xcat-user] Confluent: Are there any tricks to Deploy Images to VMs Running under ESX? FYI, I have just pushed a 'vcenter' plugin: https: //github. com/lenovo/confluent/commit/85249ae71b91d77e0b3495427107692acbd3f526 In my case, 'vcsa' is my vcenter server and I have otherwise created a 'vmw1' virtual machine (EFI, secure boot off) FYI, I have just pushed a 'vcenter' plugin: https://github.com/lenovo/confluent/commit/85249ae71b91d77e0b3495427107692acbd3f526<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/lenovo/confluent/commit/85249ae71b91d77e0b3495427107692acbd3f526__;!!KOmnBZxC8_2BBQ!0-0XlPwD1lAZayyHmrGytySY7WcprKq7O_FJveHzxC9NbDIVcekQGW7-xjjnVaGX2Mc47xmisCAihGUtRKAu$> In my case, 'vcsa' is my vcenter server and I have otherwise created a 'vmw1' virtual machine (EFI, secure boot off) and gave it a serial port (telnet://:8601 for the url, server type, enabled esxi firewall to access). [root@r3u20 ~]# nodedefine vcsa # a node to hold the TLS fingerprint for vcenter vcsa: created [root@r3u20 ~]# nodedefine vmw1 hardwaremanagement.method=vcenter bmcuser='administrator@vsphere.local' bmcpass="$MYPASS" bmc=vcsa vmw1: created [root@r3u20 ~]# nodeinventory vmw1 -s [root@r3u20 ~]# nodedeploy vmw1 -n alma-9.5-x86_64-default vmw1: network vmw1: on This is a very rough edition, and particularly the nodeconsole needs work and I wouldn't advise trying it just yet (and the VMWare firmware won't use it even when it works). ________________________________ From: Noah, Stuart via xCAT-user <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2025 11:24 PM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Cc: Noah, Stuart <stuart.n...@csmc.edu<mailto:stuart.n...@csmc.edu>> Subject: [External] [xcat-user] Confluent: Are there any tricks to Deploy Images to VMs Running under ESX? We are rebuilding our dev cluster and making athe move from XCAT to Confluent, it has been reported to back to me today that, “Confluent appears to be designed to use physical nodes with BMCs (ILO,iDRAC, etc.). So far I've been unable to get it to configured to deploy virtual machines.” Are there any special steps needed to pxe boot RHEL 9 stateless images to virtual nodes running under ESX? We don’t have admin rights to create the virtual machines, but we can change most of the settings. The current settings for the first test node, 00, are as follows. Firmware: BIOS Boot Delay: 10000 Boot Order: CD-ROM Drive Network boot from VMware VMXNET3 Network boot from VMware VMXNET3 #2 Network boot from VMware VMXNET3 #3 Hard Drive Stuart Noah Senior Programmer/Analyst stuart.n...@csmc.edu<mailto:stuart.n...@csmc.edu> 323 866-7621 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Scientific Computing, EIS 6500 Wilshire Blvd., 2142H Los Angeles, CA 90048 IMPORTANT WARNING: This message is intended for the use of the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential, the disclosure of which is governed by applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this information is strictly prohibited. Thank you for your cooperation.
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