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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Hi,</div><div>Currently there are 2 VMware drivers:</div><ul><li>VMwareVCDriver – this lets nova compute communicate with a vCenter server (which manages the ESX hosts)</li><li>VMwareESXDriver – this lets nova compute manage the ESX host</li></ul><div>Thanks</div><div>Gary</div><pre><span class="p"></span></pre><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Ray Sun <<a href="mailto:xiaoquqi@gmail.com">xiaoquqi@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <<a href="mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org">openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Wednesday, December 18, 2013 8:29 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> OpenStack Dev <<a href="mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org">openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [openstack-dev] [nova][vmware]VMware VCenter Driver<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">
Sorry, I forget to modify the subject.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><font face="courier new,monospace">Best Regards<br>
-- Ray</font></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Ray Sun <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:xiaoquqi@gmail.com" target="_blank">xiaoquqi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Stackers,</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I just looked into the VMware Vcenter Driver, seems it manages a vcenter cluster as a single compute node, even it contains more than 1 physical servers. It's not very connivence to know what's
the real resource I had in my cluster.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Is there any reason why we don't identify every ESXI host in OpenStack?</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><font face="courier new,monospace">Best Regards<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
-- Ray</font></span></font></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></span></body></html>