> will it create conflicts with Vcenter based (future) change management?
> Will cloudstack track vcenter based changes (and vice versa)?
Unfortunately the answer is yes, it will. CloudPlatform stack shuts down "unknown" VMs. It assume full control over the cluster.

>Have you seen any integration issues /challenges between Rightscale and Cloudstack (with underlying Vmware)?
I haven't see such setup yet and IMHO it's rather unlikely Rightscale knows how to co-exist/interact with CloudPlatform.

Sorry for those bad news :)

Radek.

Thanks for your inputs Radek!!!!

In fact Rightscale works pretty well with CloudPlatform (CloudStack). I have a developer account there and I tried using my lab environment. It connected to the API using the API key and the secret key, then it detected the existing templates, I was able to provision new VMs, RightScale also have templates that support their scripting, built for CloudStack and I uploaded and used one of those without problems. The existing running VMs were untouched (in fact they were not even show up in RightScale dashboard).

I assume - I'm not a developer and I didn't check CloudPlatform API - that the API communication is not related to whatever CloudPlatform manages (Vmware or Citrix) so I see no reason for not working with CloudPlatform with Vmware.

Daniel

Cloud Platform APIs can be consumed by any application that knows how to. Cloud Platform does not validate or enforce any restriction.

In addition, the APIs are independent as well as uniform across the different supported Hypervisor.

So essentially, one could use RightScale in the manner you described provide one has the know how.

You could use support/services provided by RightScale and Citrix if you wanted to run this in production.

I may know a couple of such deployments operating successfully.