Getting Started With vSphere¶

注解

Carbon 版后已移除: The vsphere cloud driver has been deprecated in favor of the vmware cloud driver and will be removed in Salt Carbon. Please refer to Getting started with VMware instead to get started with the configuration.

VMware vSphere is a management platform for virtual infrastructure and cloud computing.

Dependencies¶

The vSphere module for Salt Cloud requires the PySphere package, which is available at PyPI:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysphere

This package can be installed using pip or easy_install:

# pip install pysphere
# easy_install pysphere

Configuration¶

Set up the cloud config at /etc/salt/cloud.providers or in the /etc/salt/cloud.providers.d/ directory:

my-vsphere-config:
  driver: vsphere
  # Set the vSphere access credentials
  user: marco
  password: polo
  # Set the URL of your vSphere server
  url: 'vsphere.example.com'

注解

在 2015.8.0 版更改.

The provider parameter in cloud provider definitions was renamed to driver. This change was made to avoid confusion with the provider parameter that is used in cloud profile definitions. Cloud provider definitions now use driver to refer to the Salt cloud module that provides the underlying functionality to connect to a cloud host, while cloud profiles continue to use provider to refer to provider configurations that you define.

Profiles¶

Cloud Profiles¶

vSphere uses a Managed Object Reference to identify objects located in vCenter. The MOR ID's are used when configuring a vSphere cloud profile. Use the following reference when locating the MOR's for the cloud profile.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1017126&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=520386078&stateId=1%200%20520388386

Set up an initial profile at /etc/salt/cloud.profiles or in the /etc/salt/cloud.profiles.d directory:

vsphere-centos:
  provider: my-vsphere-config
  image: centos
  # Optional
  datastore: datastore-15
  resourcepool: resgroup-8
  folder: salt-cloud
  host: host-9
  template: False

provider¶

Enter the name that was specified when the cloud provider profile was created.

image¶

Images available to build an instance can be found using the --list-images option:

# salt-cloud --list-images my-vsphere-config

datastore¶

The MOR of the datastore where the virtual machine should be located. If not specified, the current datastore is used.

resourcepool¶

The MOR of the resourcepool to be used for the new vm. If not set, it will use the same resourcepool as the original vm.

folder¶

Name of the folder that will contain the new VM. If not set, the VM will be added to the folder the original VM belongs to.

host¶

The MOR of the host where the vm should be registered.

If not specified:

if resourcepool is not specified, the current host is used.

if resourcepool is specified, and the target pool represents a stand-alone host, the host is used.

if resourcepool is specified, and the target pool represents a DRS-enabled cluster, a host selected by DRS is used.

if resourcepool is specified, and the target pool represents a cluster without DRS enabled, an InvalidArgument exception will be thrown.

template¶

Specifies whether or not the new virtual machine should be marked as a template. Default is False.