Bug 1731548 - [RFE] Dis-allow the addition of ESX hosts directly
Summary: [RFE] Dis-allow the addition of ESX hosts directly
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Providers
Version: 5.11.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
medium
Target Milestone: GA
: 5.12.0
Assignee: Adam Grare
QA Contact: Kedar Kulkarni
Red Hat CloudForms Documentation
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 1767783
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-07-19 17:44 UTC by dmetzger
Modified: 2020-03-20 15:39 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Removed functionality
Doc Text:
Note: It is no longer supported to add ESXi Hosts directly to CloudForms as VMware Provider.
Clone Of:
: 1767783 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2020-03-20 15:39:07 UTC
Category: Feature
Cloudforms Team: VMware
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
kkulkarn: automate_bug-


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Description dmetzger 2019-07-19 17:44:45 UTC
Description of problem:

CloudForms does not support managing ESX hosts directly (there was partial support for this in the past), currently a user can add and ESX host directly as a provider but many things beyond the add will not work. This is a request to inhibit the addition of an ESX host directly as a provider.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.10 / 5.11

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 3 CFME Bot 2019-08-12 20:12:04 UTC
New commit detected on ManageIQ/manageiq-providers-vmware/master:

https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq-providers-vmware/commit/da87a7bd81da798f76a17ca2b085615bedaaa9c0
commit da87a7bd81da798f76a17ca2b085615bedaaa9c0
Author:     Adam Grare <agrare>
AuthorDate: Mon Jul 22 14:18:24 2019 -0400
Commit:     Adam Grare <agrare>
CommitDate: Mon Jul 22 14:18:24 2019 -0400

    Don't allow adding ESX hosts as VMware providers

    When validating credentials check that the entity that we are connected
    to is a vCenter server not an ESX host.

    Fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1731548

 app/models/manageiq/providers/vmware/infra_manager.rb | 5 +-
 app/models/manageiq/providers/vmware/infra_manager/vim_connect_mixin.rb | 6 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


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