<html><head><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;">Hi Thomas,<br>
<br><div><div>On 3 Dec 2013, at 14:41, Thomas McLaughlin <<a href="mailto:mclaughi@adobe.com">mclaughi@adobe.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hello,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Requirements<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">One<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">We do not want to pay to use vCenter as part of our open stack we are setting up.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You need to, at least, buy a vSphere Essentials license to manage the free ESXi hypervisor via the vSphere API:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2005377">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2005377</a></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Two<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">One of the instances we are going to run on ESXi needs to be Mac OS</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd love to see the new Mac Pro with an ESXi installed in it, I’m sure it will fly. The previous Mac Pro is in VMware’s HCL:</div><div><a href="http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=server&productid=27384&deviceCategory=server&partner=269&releases=243&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc">http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=server&productid=27384&deviceCategory=server&partner=269&releases=243&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc</a></div><div><br></div><div>Using Apple hardware you can have a supported Mac OS X. I have only run VMs with Mac OS X on VMware Fusion and only with some, not supported, patching on VMware Workstation. Still need to try ESXi+Mac Pro+Mac OS X VMs though.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Three<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I believe with the vmwareapi.VMwareESXDriver: a driver that lets nova-compute communicate directly to an ESX host we can accomplish One and Two but I want to be sure someone else has achieved this first.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately I don’t believe that you can accomplish One as I said above.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Four<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I would like suggestions of open source services that could be added to this setup to replace the vCenter with the connection used in Three above.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thomas V. McLaughlin<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:mclaughi@adobe.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">mclaughi@adobe.com</a><o:p></o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Mailing list:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack</a><br>Post to :<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:openstack@lists.openstack.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">openstack@lists.openstack.org</a><br>Unsubscribe :<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack</a></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>