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Re: Best OpenStack+VMware starting point?

 

Hi brad

Can get the binary and the example

We are now helping 2 vsphere cloud based provider

Also to understand vmware and openstack.integration.

My mind said both a compete product.

Frans Thamura
Meruvian
Integrated Hypermedia Solution Provider
On Mar 2, 2013 4:39 AM, "Brad Knowles" <bknowles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> So, we're trying to figure out what would be the best starting point for
> us to try to implement the combination of OpenStack+VMware.  I found the
> pages at [1] - [6] etc..., and thought that this would be a pretty simple
> process.  And then we ran into various bugs and other problems, such as
> [7], [8], and [9] as well as discovering some other pages that were a mix
> of being both helpful and a little confusing and self-contradictory, such
> as [10], [11], [12], and [13].  This has been a week long process.
>
> We're committed to testing Grizzly no matter what, and we're going to test
> with VMware no matter what, and I'm committed to doing my part to help get
> the documentation updated to properly support doing an installation of
> Grizzly (see [14]).
>
> However, given our experience this past week, we're wondering what the
> best starting point would be for testing OpenStack+VMware, and what our
> chances are of getting a configuration that might be able to be considered
> "production ready" or at least "near production ready".
>
> Am I correct in my feeling that grizzly-3 really is the best starting
> point right now?
>
> Does anyone have any suggested starting points that may be able to help us
> get up and running more quickly on OpenStack+VMware?  Because the existing
> documentation on the VMware part seems to be a little self-contradictory
> and it's hard to know what really is the best and most current information.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> [1]
> http://docs.openstack.org/folsom/openstack-compute/admin/content/vmware.html
> [2]
> http://docs.openstack.org/folsom/openstack-compute/admin/content/hypervisor-configuration-basics.html
> [3]
> http://docs.openstack.org/folsom/openstack-compute/admin/content/configuring-hypervisors.html
> [4] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/VMware-vSphere-support
> [5] http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/support.html
> [6] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1063885
> [7] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1065092
> [8] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1078668
> [9] https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1079882
> [10] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/16497/
> [11] http://www.slideshare.net/opencompute/vmware-nova-compute-driver
> [12]
> http://www.slideshare.net/openstackindia/vmware-compute-driver-for-openstack
> [13] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/vmware-compute-driver
> [14] https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1133699
>
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> Brad Knowles <bknowles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Senior Consultant
>
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