This script will create one at /root/.boto containing your credentials, based on your responses to the following questions. For the first time, you will need to run gsutil to setup boto configuration file which will contain your Google access key ID and secret. This will be necessary for the next step.ĥ. Login to Google Storage for Developers, you will need to setup key management under " Google Storage Manager" tab. Edit gsutil located in /root/gsutil/gsutil and change the following on line 1137 What I found is that for the basic operations, you actually do not need 2.5.1 and you can edit the gsutil utility to not check for the version.ģ. The test was performed on an ESX 4.1 host, but I do not see why it will not work on ESX 4.0.īy default, gsutil requires you to be running python 2.5.1 or greater. I spent a little time over the weekend playing with Google's storage offering and was able to install Google's python gsutil utility on to an ESX 4.1 host and backup a VM to Google Storage.īefore you begin, you will to have access to Google Storage for Developers and you will need to download the gsutil and transfer the tarball to your ESX host. Back in January I wrote an article How to install Amazon s3cmd utility on ESX(i) 4.0 & Backup VMs to the Cloud which uses Amazon's S3 storage offering and their s3cmd to upload a VM into the cloud. I did not think I would get into the limited beta and at the time I was just curious about the offering from Google. Over the weekend I received an email invite for Google Storage for Developers, which I had applied for a month or two back.
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