Working/Supported versions for VMware vCenter and ESXi Hosts/Cluster for CloudStack 4.9

[Jonas Schlichtenbrede <jo...@gmail.com>]

Hi Dev Team,


we have a question regarding the current working/supported version for
VMware.


Which version can/shall we use for a new Zone/Cluster for vCenter and for
the ESXi Hosts/Cluster?



Will it be possible to do the following:

- Using an existing vCenter 6 and ESXi 6 hosts

- Setup a new VMware Cluster with 2-4 ESXi 6 hosts controlled by CloudStack

In the Installation Guide only version 5.5 for vCenter and ESXi is listed.
However, in the mailing lists it seems that also version 6 of vCenter and
ESXi shall work - but we would like to reduce our testing efforts ... ;-)

Thanks for sharing your experience and advise!

Jonas

Re: Working/Supported versions for VMware vCenter and ESXi Hosts/Cluster for CloudStack 4.9

[Rohit Yadav <ro...@shapeblue.com>]

Hi Jonas,


We've not yet updated the docs as we've not performed tests on/with vCenter/ESXi 6 exhaustively. In practice, it does seem to work. We've an automated Trillian [1] based environment where we're able to deploy an advanced (CloudStack 4.9) zone with vCenter/ESXi 6 and get basic vm lifecycle working but we've not yet performed all VMware specific tests/operations/features to conclude full support/compatibility.


I would advise to go ahead and test vCenter/ESXi 6 with CloudStack 4.9.0 for your use-cases and please do share the results with us (if it works, or in case you hit any bug). This will help us ascertain VMware 6.x compatibility/support when using with CloudStack.


[1] http://www.shapeblue.com/cloudstack-test-automation-with-trillian-and-jenkins/


Regards.

________________________________
From: Jonas Schlichtenbrede <jo...@gmail.com>
Sent: 15 August 2016 19:53:40
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Working/Supported versions for VMware vCenter and ESXi Hosts/Cluster for CloudStack 4.9

Hi Dev Team,


we have a question regarding the current working/supported version for
VMware.


Which version can/shall we use for a new Zone/Cluster for vCenter and for
the ESXi Hosts/Cluster?



Will it be possible to do the following:

- Using an existing vCenter 6 and ESXi 6 hosts

- Setup a new VMware Cluster with 2-4 ESXi 6 hosts controlled by CloudStack

In the Installation Guide only version 5.5 for vCenter and ESXi is listed.
However, in the mailing lists it seems that also version 6 of vCenter and
ESXi shall work - but we would like to reduce our testing efforts ... ;-)

Thanks for sharing your experience and advise!

Jonas

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