[Openstack-operators] openstack vmware

Ignazio Cassano ignaziocassano at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 17:02:36 UTC 2015


Many thanks Federico...
So the question is: why should I use openstack with vmware ?
Il giorno 21/set/2015 18:34, "Federico Michele Facca" <
federico.facca at create-net.org> ha scritto:

> Hi Ignazio,
> I am not the greatest expert in my team on the topic, so there my be some
> mistakes (anyone feel free to correct :)), read my reply inline
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocassano at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi all, I' would like to know which openstack community edition
>> components work with vmware.
>> I know there is a nova driver for vmware.
>>
>
> correct, basically it will act as a "proxy" toward vCenter
>
>
>> I' like to know if glance, heat, ceilometer etc etc work with vmware.
>>
> AFAIK Heat as no real dependency, so no issue. Ceilometer, we haven't
> tested, but any implementation may reflect the fact that OS services for
> VMWare are proxies (i.e. it will see whatever is on the other side like a
> huge compute or a huge cinder)
>
> About glance you may have some limitations, since it supports so far
> (unless anything changed in Liberty) a single backend. actually we had
> issues in booting a vmware volume from an image (using swift as glance
> backend - it should work with no issue using the vmware storage, but then I
> guess you lose the multi hypervisor support).
>
>
> As far is neutron is concerned, in a scenario where there are kvm and
>> vmware nodes, must I have an nsx multihypervisor solution ?
>>
>
> I think you can use other drivers as well (actually we developed one for a
> customer). Or nova-network.
>
>
>> Must I insall nsx componenents on kvm nodes (a modified ovs version  for
>> kvm) ?
>>
> we didn't go for NSX solution, but I guess so.
>
>> On vmware must I install the vmware nsx or the multihypervisor version ?
>>
>
> yes multihpervisor one... I know there were rumors about an opens source
> release, but I hadn't any update on that.
>
>
> Regards,
> Federico
>
>> Regards
>> Ignazio
>>
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