cluster size restriction

[jogersh]

hi

in 5.5 the stated max is 32 hosts per cluster, table 6 here: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r55/vsphere-55-configuration-maximums.pdf

Is there a restriction on the number of VIO ESXi hosts that a cluster can control?

If yes, how does VIO scale "out"? must a VMware admin manually add more clusters?

thx

[jogersh]

I guess the limit is 32 hosts per cluster in 5.5 and for 6.0 we will find out officially soon

still curious about auto-scale/elasticity under clusters

[josemhb]

Hi,

If vSphere 5.5 have this limitation, you can scale out adding more clusters to nova, here the example [nova-compute.conf]:

[vmware]

cluster_name=CLUSTER1

cluster_name=CLUSTER2

use_linked_clone=true

maximum_objects=100

api_retry_count=5

host_ip=10.10.0.2

host_username=root

host_password=vmware

task_poll_interval=5.0

datastore_regex=DS_OPENS*

Regards,

Josemhernandez