Managing individual ESXi instances

[Ivan Efremov <eo...@yandex.ru>]

Hi list,

I'm new to the CloudStack platform and I'm wondering why the platform does need the vCenter API and can not use ESXi directly,

Can anyone elaborate on this?
Are there any proposals for adding ESXi integration to CloudStack?


Thanks,
Ivan

Re: Managing individual ESXi instances

[Ivan Efremov <eo...@yandex.ru>]

Hi Ilya,

Thanks for the answer.
I understand that for now I need vCenter.

I'm interested in making CloudStack able to work with ESXi directly (i. e. making source code changes).
Probably I have to ask this in the CloudStack development list.


Ivan

15.06.2014, 07:01, "ilya musayev" <il...@gmail.com>:
> Привет Иван,
>
> You will need vCenter to run ESXi with CloudStack.
>
> You can run KVM, XEN or LXC without any vCenter like solution. If you
> want vCenter like solution to XEN or KVM, look into XenCenter or oVirt,
> both open source, free and comparative in features to vCenter.
>
> Regards
> ilya
>
> On 6/12/14, 2:25 AM, Ivan Efremov wrote:
>>  Hi list,
>>
>>  I'm new to the CloudStack platform and I'm wondering why the platform does need the vCenter API and can not use ESXi directly,
>>
>>  Can anyone elaborate on this?
>>  Are there any proposals for adding ESXi integration to CloudStack?
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>  Ivan

Re: Managing individual ESXi instances

[ilya musayev <il...@gmail.com>]

Привет Иван,

You will need vCenter to run ESXi with CloudStack.

You can run KVM, XEN or LXC without any vCenter like solution. If you 
want vCenter like solution to XEN or KVM, look into XenCenter or oVirt, 
both open source, free and comparative in features to vCenter.

Regards
ilya



On 6/12/14, 2:25 AM, Ivan Efremov wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm new to the CloudStack platform and I'm wondering why the platform does need the vCenter API and can not use ESXi directly,
>
> Can anyone elaborate on this?
> Are there any proposals for adding ESXi integration to CloudStack?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ivan
>