Bug 1298670

Summary:	[RFE][ironic]: Adding support for vCenter in Ironic
Product:	Red Hat OpenStack	Reporter:	Erwan Gallen <egallen>
Component:	openstack-ironic	Assignee:	Lucas Alvares Gomes <lmartins>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Toure Dunnon <tdunnon>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0 (Liberty)	CC:	achernet, dtantsur, egallen, jdonohue, kbasil, mburns, mlammon, pablo.iranzo, racedoro, rhel-osp-director-maint, sclewis, srevivo, tshefi
Target Milestone:	ga	Keywords:	FutureFeature, ZStream
Target Release:	10.0 (Newton)
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2016-08-02 11:38:35 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1347518, 1259436, 1350510

Description Erwan Gallen 2016-01-14 17:32:50 UTC

Description of problem:

A customer wants to use some VMware ESXi VMs to install RHEL OSP controllers.
The deployment has to be managed by RHEL OSP-d.
The installation of RHEL OSP was tested with Ironic fake_pxe driver and worked well but we needed to reboot manually the ESXi instances during the deployment.

Expected results:

There is no Ironic driver to manage the power of ESXi threw vCenter API.
A patch has been developed to manage the power of nodes with a SSH driver to the ESXi hosts:
https://mojo.redhat.com/docs/DOC-1034793
For some users it's not possible to enable SSH on ESXi host because of security reasons, this SSH solution is not applicable for this customer.

We need to develop a vCenter driver for Ironic.

Additional info:
Most drivers in Ironic does use pyton-proliantutils (for ilo) python-dracclient (for drac), we can use perhaps this type of librairies for vCenter:
https://code.google.com/p/pysphere/wiki/GettingStarted
https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi

Comment 3 Dmitry Tantsur 2016-01-21 13:58:45 UTC

Does libvirt work with VMware ESXi? We have a proposal upstream to replace SSH driver with a libvirt driver to address SSH problems (e.g. better support Windows). Here is the spec: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/254421/

Comment 4 Dmitry Tantsur 2016-01-21 14:09:59 UTC

Answering my own question: I've found http://libvirt.org/drvesx.html
"The libvirt VMware ESX driver can manage VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.x/5.x and VMware GSX 2.0, also called VMware Server 2.0, and possibly later versions. Since 0.8.3 the driver can also connect to a VMware vCenter 2.5/4.x/5.x (VPX)."

Is your version included in the list? If so, we could probably try to land this libvirt driver.. Please take a look at the Ironic spec (link in the previous comment).

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2016-08-02 11:38:35 UTC

Quality Engineering Management has reviewed and declined this request.
You may appeal this decision by reopening this request.