[Openstack] How to configure ESX datastore as a cinder backend storage

John Griffith john.griffith at solidfire.com
Mon Jan 27 05:34:35 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Rajshree Thorat
<rajshree.thorat at gslab.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm deploying OpenStack Havana for provisioning VMs using ESXi as a
> hypervisor.
> I want to use ESX datastore as a cinder backend storage. However, when I try
> to create a volume,
> it gives me the following error.
>
> 2014-01-23 06:35:02.960 2862 ERROR cinder.scheduler.filters.capacity_filter
> [req-e9444c9b-4abb-411b-9476-80213e4c47a1 dc1ab39557d7405ebcf35d98885c8dcd
> 1d2b0c8ade234ca08bcef380acdeb8b9] Free capacity not set: volume node info
> collection broken.
> 2014-01-23 06:35:02.961 2862 ERROR cinder.volume.flows.create_volume
> [req-e9444c9b-4abb-411b-9476-80213e4c47a1 dc1ab39557d7405ebcf35d98885c8dcd
> 1d2b0c8ade234ca08bcef380acdeb8b9] Failed to schedule_create_volume: No valid
> host was found.
>

It would appear that the driver is not loading/starting up.  If you
look in the cinder-volume log you may get more info as to why.

> Provided is the driver configuration file which I am using.
>
> volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.vmware.vmdk.VMwareEsxVmdkDriver

I'm assuming of course that the ip, username and password info below
is actually populated in your config file and you just scrubbed it for
the ML?

> vmware_host_ip=<vmware_host_ip>
> vmware_host_username=<vmware_host_username>
> vmware_host_password=<vmware_host_password>
>
> Does anyone have any idea? Pointers in the right direction are always
> welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Rajshree
>
>
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