If you are using standalone VMware servers (i.e. ones that VCL did not deploy using xCAT), you first need to configure a VM Profile to match your setup. Next, add the VMWare servers. Then, you need to add the virtual machines. You can either add them individually (Adding Individual VMWare Servers/Virtual Machines), or if they have sequential hostnames and IP addresses, you can add them all at once (Adding Multiple VMWare Servers/Virtual Machines).

Once you have added at least one computer, you can add more computers by going to Manage Computers->Edit Computer Information and clicking Add Single Computer or Add Multiple Computers.

  1. Configure VM Profile(s)
  2. Add VMware Host Servers
  3. Add Virtual Machines
  4. Assign Virtual Machine(s) to a Virtual Host
  5. Add entries to dhcpd.conf
  6. Add entries to /etc/hosts

Configure VM Profile(s)

  1. Click Virtual Hosts
  2. Select the VM Host Profiles tab
  3. Select a profile whose name matches your setup or click New Profile...
    1. If using an existing profile, click Configure Profile
    2. If creating a new profile:
      1. Enter the name of the profile
      2. Click Create Profile
  4. Configure the profile to match your setup. Hover over any ? icons to get further information about that field. More information is available on the VMware Configuration page

    Just click on the text of any field you want to edit to change it. After changing it, click somewhere else to save the changed value for that field. Changes are immediate; there is no "save" button for this tab.

Add VMware Host Servers

Adding Individual VMware Servers

  1. Click Manage Computers
  2. Select the Add Single Computer radio button
  3. Click Submit
  4. Fill in the following:
  5. Click Confirm Computer
  6. Click Submit

    The computer you just added isn't listed after clicking Submit. This is not a problem.

Adding Multiple VMWare Servers

  1. Click Manage Computers
  2. Select the Add Multiple Computers radio button
  3. Click Submit
  4. Fill in the following:
  5. Click Confirm Computers
  6. Click Submit

Add Virtual Machines

Adding Individual Virtual Machines

  1. Click Manage Computers
  2. Select Edit Computer Information
  3. Click Submit
  4. Click Add Single Computer
  5. Fill in the following:
  6. Click Confirm Computer
  7. Click Submit

Adding Multiple Virtual Machines

  1. Click Manage Computers
  2. Select Edit Computer Information
  3. Click Submit
  4. Click Add Multiple Computers
  5. Fill in the following:
  6. Click Confirm Computers
  7. Click Submit

Assign Virtual Machine(s) to a Virtual Host

  1. Click Virtual Hosts
  2. On the VM Hosts tab, select the virtual host server added previously
  3. Click Configure Host, You should see VM limit set to a number along with the vm profile, two columns of VM's assigned to host and Unassigned VMs
  4. Adjust the VM limit to the desired number of vms you would like to run on this host.

    Please consult your hypervisor documentation for the recommended number of virtual machines to run concurrently for your virtual server configuration

  5. Select the virtual machine nodes from the Unassigned VMs: column
  6. Click Add

Add entries to dhcpd.conf

You need to add entries for your VMs to your dhcpd.conf file so that they will correctly be assigned their private addresses at boot.

  1. Click Manage Computers
  2. Select the All VM Computers group in the list at the top
  3. Select the Computer Utilities radio button
  4. Click Submit
  5. Click the Check All link at the bottom of the table
  6. Next to For selected computers, generate computer data for, select dhcpd
  7. Click Generate Data
  8. Enter the private IP address for your management node
  9. Click Generate Data
  10. Copy/Paste the data for dhcpd.conf to the dhcpd.conf file on your management node (ignore the part for dhcpd.leases)
  11. Restart dhcpd

    service dhcpd restart

  12. Scroll to the bottom and click Close

Add entries to /etc/hosts

You need to add entries for your VM hosts and VMs to /etc/hosts

  1. Click Manage Computers
  2. Select the All VM Computers and the allComputers groups in the list at the top
  3. Select the Computer Utilities radio button
  4. Click Submit
  5. Click the Check All link at the bottom of the table
  6. Next to For selected computers, generate computer data for, select /etc/hosts
  7. Click Generate Data
  8. Copy/Paste the data to your /etc/hosts file
  9. Click Close