Re: vSphere hardware profiles

On 13/08/2012, at 6:32 PM, Xavier Naveira wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm trying to figure out Aeolus to be able to manage a vSphere deployment. > > I'm on a fresh installed installation on Fedora 16. > > I've been able to create images to test with but I don't get the hardware profiles to work properly. When I go "Administrer->Content->Hardware->New Hardware Profile" under "Matching Provider Hardware Profiles" I only get a profile on "Hardware Profile Name" named "default" which has "n/a" as storage amount, thus when I create a new hardware profile I never get a match. Ahhh. I think I know the problem. :) With vSphere images, for now (temporary measure) the size of their disk is fixed. It's something like 10GB or 20GB. (not big) The hardware profiles area seems to barf on things for VMware, if you try to specify *any* disk size at all. I'm guessing that's what you've been doing, under the logical assumption that hwp disk sizing for VMware works. The general approach people seem to use, is have their applications on the VMware instance, with the data getting served to it via network storage. NFS, SRP, FC, or whatever's in their environment. Would that work for you? > How do I create further "Provider Hardware Profiles"?? For vSphere, they _should_ work (in theory) as long as the disk size field is left empty. In reality though... when you try with empty disk size specified, does that work? > According to the wiki instructions I should have a bunch of profiles already created but I don't see them. Hmmm, that could mean something else is at work too. Are you ok to take a few screenshots of where it's not working, and email them to me directly? It'll help show me what's going on. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- Aeolus Community Manager http://www.aeolusproject.org