need a working exmple how to set up a VM/VNF on vmware using ESC

Zoltan Kinczli — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 12:12:14 GMT

hey,

i'm trying to set up a VM/VNF on VMware usign ESC

i have ESC up on a VM, in sync w/ NSO

trying to configure vm_group, but getting "operation_failed: undefined" - not too informative

a working example would be a lifesaver

thanks, cheers

--z.

Re: need a working exmple how to set up a VM/VNF on vmware using ESC

Zoltan Kinczli — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 10:13:20 GMT

finally i have a VNF deployed, so i can answer my own question:

couple of gotha:

- no tenants on vcenter - everything is under the default (admin) tenant

- on vcenter datastore a folder called esc-ovas has to be created

- OVA file may have to be edited

remove serial console, CD-rom

align network names in OVF ?manifest?

- image under deployment/vm_group must have esc-ova specified as path

- volume under deployent/vm_group must refer to volume defined under admin tenant

yet, i had to define some size (with sizeunit) unde deployment/vm_group - no clue why

this just got me a VNF deployed and powered on

admin@ncs# show running-config devices device esc-aslab config | display xml

<name>esc-aslab</name>

<esc_datamodel xmlns="http://www.cisco.com/esc/esc">

<name>admin</name>

<description>Built-in Admin Tenant</description>

<managed_resource>false</managed_resource>

<vim_mapping>true</vim_mapping>

<volumes> <==== refer to datastore on vcenter

<name>LocalDisk600GB</name>

<type>local</type>

</volume>

<name>Netapp_4TB</name>

<type>network</type>

</volume>

</volumes>

<name>VPAGENT-VNI3000-ESC-ASLAB</name>

<datacenter>aslab</datacenter> <==== VDC name in vcenter

<switch_name>dvSwitch-ESC</switch_name> <==== must create a distributed switch in vcenter

</locators>

<vm_group>

<name>VPAGENT-VNI3000-ESC-ASLAB-VM</name>

<image>esc-ovas/vPag1</image> <==== esc-ovas folder must exist

<bootup_time>300</bootup_time>

<recovery_wait_time>120</recovery_wait_time>

<name>LocalDisk600GB</name>

</volume>

</volumes>

<type>virtual</type>

<network>ESC-MGMT</network> <==== portgroup under distributed switch

<ip_address>192.168.0.1</ip_address>

</interface>

<type>virtual</type>

<network>ESC-VM</network> <==== portgroup under distributed switch

<ip_address>192.168.1.1</ip_address>

</interface>

</interfaces>

<kpi_data>

<kpi>

<event_name>VM_ALIVE</event_name>

<metric_value>1</metric_value>

<metric_cond>GT</metric_cond>

<metric_type>UINT32</metric_type>

<metric_collector>

<type>ICMPPing</type>

<poll_frequency>5</poll_frequency>

<polling_unit>seconds</polling_unit>

<continuous_alarm>false</continuous_alarm>

</metric_collector>

</kpi>

</kpi_data>

<rules>

<admin_rules>

<rule>

<event_name>VM_ALIVE</event_name>

<action>ALWAYS log</action>

</rule>

</admin_rules>

</rules>

<config_data>

<dst>day0-config</dst>

<file>http://host/path/vpagent-VNI3000-day0-confg.txt</file>

<name>HOSTNAME</name>

<val>VPAGENT-VNI3000-ESC-ASLAB</val>

</variable>

</configuration>

</config_data>

<min_active>1</min_active>

<max_active>1</max_active>

</scaling>

<zone>infra</zone>

</placement>

</vm_group>

</deployment>

</deployments>

</tenant>

</tenants>

<image>

<disk_format>vmdk</disk_format>

<container_format>ova</container_format>

<serial_console>false</serial_console>

<disk_bus>virtio</disk_bus>

<visibility>public</visibility>

<datacenter>aslab</datacenter>

<switch_name>dvSwitch-ESC</switch_name>

</locators>

</image>

</images>

</esc_datamodel>

<esc_system_config xmlns="http://www.cisco.com/esc/esc">

<vim_connectors>

<default_vim_connector>default_vmware_vim</default_vim_connector>

<vim_connector>

<id>default_vmware_vim</id>

<type>VMWARE_VSPHERE</type>

<name>vcenter_ip</name>

</property>

<name>vcenter_port</name>

</property>

</properties>

<users>

<user>

<name>vcenter_password</name>

<value>password</value>

</property>

</properties>

</credentials>

</user>

</users>

</vim_connector>

</vim_connectors>

</esc_system_config>

</config>

</device>

</devices>

</config>

admin@ncs#

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