[Openstack] Instances created using nova compute aren't visible in ESXi

Swapnil Kulkarni swapnilkulkarni2608 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 05:09:16 UTC 2014


Hey Upendra,

Are you using same ESXi host as compute node? Can you run virsh list on VM1
to check if you are not using default KVM/qemu.

~Swapnil


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Gary Kotton <gkotton at vmware.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> The instance should be visible from the VC client. The name of the
> instance should be the OpenStack UUID.
> Thanks
> Gary
>
> From: Upendra Sahu <upendrasahu20 at gmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 6:08 AM
> To: "openstack at lists.openstack.org" <openstack at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject: [Openstack] Instances created using nova compute aren't visible
> in ESXi
>
> I have a ESXi hypervisor (Host1) on which I have installed a VM1 based on
> Ubuntu 12.4 LTS server. Now I installed single Node Openstack in this VM1.
> Host1 when viewed using vSphere Client has one vm VM1.
>
> As the single node openstack is installed in VM1, created one instance
> (ins1) in VM1. This ins1 is based on Cirros where the image used is
> cirros-0.3.0-x86_64-disk.img. Now the openstack VM1 has a ins1 which can be
> logged into from VM1.
>
> here is my query. Since there has been a instance ins1 created, as per my
> understand of openstack this ins1 should be visible from the vSphere
> Client. i.e now vSphere Client should show one VM i.e VM1 on which
> Openstack is installed and ins1 the instance VM created through openstack.
>
> Is that understanding wrong.
>
> But when I viewed Host1 through Vsphere client, only one VM i.e VM1 alone
> is visible not the ins1. Is that anything I am doing wrong in the setup.
>
> Thanks,
> Upendra
>
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