Anyone still working esx support?

[Aaron Lippold]

Hi all

I know with RHEV this may be sinful to utter but is anyone still  
looking at ESX server provisioning?

Thanks,

Aaron Lippod
lippold(a)gmail.com
AIM/YAHOO: aaronlippold

[James Cammarata]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:24:32 -0500, Aaron Lippold <lippold(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:
>  Hi all
>  
>  I know with RHEV this may be sinful to utter but is anyone still  
>  looking at ESX server provisioning?
>  
>  Thanks,
>  
>  Aaron Lippod
>  lippold(a)gmail.com
>  AIM/YAHOO: aaronlippold 
I use cobbler for kickstart ESX 3.5/4.0 at work, but it's a manual process
(distro add/profile add, etc. instead of import).  The other change is to
the pre/post network scripts, since ESX uses a lot of different, custom
options for the network line.

I should probably take a diff and submit it as a patch, just been lazy :) 
Adding the support to import should be pretty minimal though.

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[Corey Osman]

I was actually thinking of making a java  cli app for general vmware  
control.  This could be used for things like server provisioning.  I  
don't know how much time I'll have but I could lay out the groundwork  
and open source it and hopefully vmware programmers will contribute.

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On Nov 13, 2009, at 6:24 PM, Aaron Lippold <lippold(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi all
>
>  I know with RHEV this may be sinful to utter but is anyone still
>  looking at ESX server provisioning?
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Aaron Lippod
>  lippold(a)gmail.com
>  AIM/YAHOO: aaronlippold
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[Jeff Schroeder]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Corey Osman <cosman2001(a)me.com&gt; wrote:
>  I was actually thinking of making a java  cli app for general vmware
>  control.  This could be used for things like server provisioning.  I
>  don't know how much time I'll have but I could lay out the groundwork
>  and open source it and hopefully vmware programmers will contribute. 
FYI: Libvirtd has support for working with ESX via the remote api in
0.7.2. That means you should be able to use the virsh* suite of tools
from the cli.

It should be somewhat trivial to make cobbler / koan support it if
libvirt supports it.

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>
>  On Nov 13, 2009, at 6:24 PM, Aaron Lippold <lippold(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > I know with RHEV this may be sinful to utter but is anyone still
> > looking at ESX server provisioning?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Aaron Lippod
> > lippold(a)gmail.com
> > AIM/YAHOO: aaronlippold
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[Glenn Bailey]

>  On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Corey Osman
> <cosman2001(a)me.com&gt; wrote:
>  > I was actually thinking of making a java  cli app for general vmware
>  > control.  This could be used for things like server provisioning.  I
>  > don't know how much time I'll have but I could lay out the groundwork
>  > and open source it and hopefully vmware programmers will contribute.
>  
>  FYI: Libvirtd has support for working with ESX via the remote api in
>  0.7.2. That means you should be able to use the virsh* suite of tools
>  from the cli.
>  
>  It should be somewhat trivial to make cobbler / koan support it if
>  libvirt supports it. 
oh wow, this is great news. this will be waaaaayyy easier than trying to use the
vi-toolkit directly .. I'll see what I can find by using this method instead ..

[Daniel Veillard]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:31:34AM -0500, Glenn Bailey wrote:
>  > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Corey Osman
> <cosman2001(a)me.com&gt; wrote:
>  > > I was actually thinking of making a java  cli app for general vmware
>  > > control.  This could be used for things like server provisioning.  I
>  > > don't know how much time I'll have but I could lay out the groundwork
>  > > and open source it and hopefully vmware programmers will contribute.
>  > 
>  > FYI: Libvirtd has support for working with ESX via the remote api in
>  > 0.7.2. That means you should be able to use the virsh* suite of tools
>  > from the cli.
>  > 
>  > It should be somewhat trivial to make cobbler / koan support it if
>  > libvirt supports it.
>  
>  oh wow, this is great news. this will be waaaaayyy easier than trying to use the
> vi-toolkit directly .. I'll see what I can find by using this method instead ..
  And there is even documentation as of yesterday thanks to Matthias :)

    http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html

Daniel

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[Glenn Bailey]

>  > oh wow, this is great news. this will be waaaaayyy easier than
> trying
>  to use the vi-toolkit directly .. I'll see what I can find by using
>  this method instead ..
>  
>    And there is even documentation as of yesterday thanks to Matthias :)
>  
>      http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html 
So I got the latest version installed and running, but libvirt currently only connects
directly to ESX hosts, and not a vCenter server itself. This IMHO makes it useless for a
enterprise environment, as all management for ESX hosts are done through the vCenter
server. I was able to hack the source to get it sorta working, and posted on the libvirt
list about this as well. I'll see what they come up with ;-)

[Jeff Schroeder]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Glenn Bailey <gbailey(a)terremark.com&gt; wrote:
> > > oh wow, this is great news. this will be waaaaayyy easier
> than trying
> > to use the vi-toolkit directly .. I'll see what I can find by using
> > this method instead ..
> >
> >   And there is even documentation as of yesterday thanks to Matthias :)
> >
> >     http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html
>
>  So I got the latest version installed and running, but libvirt currently only connects
> directly to ESX hosts, and not a vCenter server itself. This IMHO makes it useless for a
> enterprise environment, as all management for ESX hosts are done through the vCenter
> server. I was able to hack the source to get it sorta working, and posted on the libvirt
> list about this as well. I'll see what they come up with ;-) 
ESX support is still fairly new and not a whole lot of people are
using it. With any luck you'll get a patch accepted into libvirt :)


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[Glenn Bailey]

>  Hi all
>  
>  I know with RHEV this may be sinful to utter but is anyone still
>  looking at ESX server provisioning?
>   
I've been working on getting koan talking to a Virtual Center server, not ESX
directly. It's using the perl vi-toolkit, so it's not pure python. not sure when
I'm gonna have it done so don't hold your breath ;-) I can layout my design idea
on how it's gonna work if you'd like ..

glenn
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