More information needed for ESX support

Hi, which manual do you mean this needs to be added to? The Essex manual? Another manual? Please let us know.

Thanks for the input.

I'm sorry.

This is the page I was referring to http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/vmware.html

Regards,
MCo

Thanks Marco.

I agree that the section looks a little bare, though as I'm not a vmware expert, I'd be interested in your ideas on what could potentially be added ...? Example new section headings?

Sorry, I checked my posts and found out that I made some mistakes.

This is an answer I found that seems to clarify how things works is https://answers.launchpad.net/nova/+question/186497

To be honest I'm not a ESX expert too, however I talked with a colleague of mine and we made some thoughts on how ESX could be integrated with OpenStack.
Then we found the answer I mentioned and it seems to confirm our ideas.

You need to install ESX on a compute node, then - on top of it - you install ubuntu (as a VM) and, on top of it, the OpenStack pieces you normally install for a compute node.
In addition, you need to install those pieces that allow the integration with ESX (WSDLs).

At this point, the Ubuntu VM running on top of ESX would talk to ESX for controlling other VMs execution

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This is what we understood and it seems to be quite reasonable but, very honestly, we didn't test it.
I'm planning to test it but not in the near future; I would recommend to ask some developer and add information to the manual, if possible.

Thanks for your work Marco, we really appreciate all of the docbug reports you send in. Since this isn't one we can really fix directly, I'll mark this as "Opinion" and make sure whenever we're working on hypervisor docs we look to add more to ESX.

OK