Hi Rajesh, we do WMI calls, with the only exception being the cluster management where we host Powershell calls. We don't use SCVMM is any way :-)
Best, Alessandro On Apr 19, 2012, at 18:59 , Rajesh Battala wrote: > Idea is great. > All these Hyper-V operations are implement to manage the Hyper-V box directly > using WMI calls right? > Or these operations are implemented via SCVMM? > > Thanks > Rajesh Battala > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alessandro Pilotti [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Hyper-V Support > > Hi guys, > > I'm new to this list, so hi everybody :-) > > I'm interested in providing code for integrating Cloudstack with Hyper-V. We > developend an Hyper-V management framework that we use in our cloud products > that can be used (at least as as a starting point). > > I'm summing up at the bottom of this email what we already have in terms of > Hyper-V features handled by our framework (completed and tested). We > basically cover everything needed for CloudStack and more. :-) > > Beside that we also just released an open source Hyper-V backup library and > CLI tool: http://hypervbackup.codeplex.com/ So far it's the only open source > tool handling VSS backups of VMs on CSV storage :-) > > The assemblies are written in C# with .Net as the only dependency. > > I see 3 options to integrate our work with CloudStack: > > Write a Java adapter on top of the C# assembly (via JNI) Rewrite the C# code > in Java, considering the quirkness for accessing WMI from java (jWMI, etc) > Deploy the assembly on the Hyper-V hosts and add a RESTful layer on top to be > consumed by a Java adapter (locally or remotely). That would be the best > option in terms of performance and security (and the fastest to release :-) > ). > > I prefer the third option, but I'm open to any idea! > Looking forward for your opinion! > > BTW We plan to setup a CloudStack Hyper-V service in our datacenter on top of > one of the clusters as soon as we have a working beta. > > > Thanks, > > Alessandro Pilotti > Cloudbase Solutions Srl > ------------------------------------------------------------ > IT Consultant & Technical Speaker > > MVP ASP.Net / IIS > MCSD, MCAD, MCSE, MCDBA, MCTS, MCT > RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > VM > Create > Update > Delete > Add / update / remove any type of resource (ethernet emulated/synthetic > adapther, VHDs, ISO images etc) > List > Get summary > Get thumbnail > Get integration tools status and KV data > Get IP addresses > Start > Stop > Pause > Save > Shutdown > Take snapshot > List snapshots > Revert to snapshot > Remove snapshots > Export > Import > Network > > Create VirtualSwitch > Delete VirtualSwitch > List VirtualSwitches > Create VirtualSwitch port > remove VirtualSwitch port > Bind external ethernet port > Setup VirtualSwitch (connect to external ethernet port) > Terdown switch > Create internal ethernet port > Remove internal ethernet port > Connect VirtualSwitch port to VM or other ports > Disconnect VirtualSwitch port > > Storage > > Create VHD (fixed, dynamic, differencing) > Compact VHD > Convert VHD type > Merge VHD with parent > Validate VHD > Mount / unmount VHD > Reconnect parent VHD > Get VHD info > Expand VHD > Create Virtual Floppy Disk > > Utility > > Get async job info > Wait for async job info > Remote file system management > > Cluster > > Create VM resource > Remove VM resource > Live migrate VM > Create CSV > Move CSV > > Backup / Restore > > http://hypervbackup.codeplex.com/ >
