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

John Griffith john.griffith at solidfire.com
Mon Jan 27 05:36:04 UTC 2014


On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 10:34 PM, John Griffith
<john.griffith at solidfire.com> wrote:
> 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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