I'd like to get a final word on this - is it OK to be removed? Is there someone 
who is knowledgable with what it will take to remove it and/or is comfortable 
removing it? I don't know how tied into the rest of the codebase it is.

-- 
Chris Suich
chris.su...@netapp.com
NetApp Software Engineer
Data Center Platforms – Cloud Solutions
Citrix, Cisco & Red Hat

On Sep 18, 2013, at 1:54 PM, "SuichII, Christopher" <chris.su...@netapp.com> 
wrote:

> Darren,
> 
> The integration we are working on will be closed source. The NetApp OpenStack 
> integrations are GPL due to the nature of OpenStack. They may be simply doing 
> xml/http request because that is the lowest level of communicating with our 
> storage controllers. Our work uses an internal library that abstracts the 
> xml/http work away (which transitively required the managontap library).
> 
> -Chris
> -- 
> Chris Suich
> chris.su...@netapp.com
> NetApp Software Engineer
> Data Center Platforms – Cloud Solutions
> Citrix, Cisco & Red Hat
> 
> On Sep 18, 2013, at 1:31 PM, Chiradeep Vittal <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> It could enable a volume service for baremetal, but currently it is too
>> tied to NetApp.
>> 
>> 
>> On 9/18/13 11:35 AM, "Alex Huang" <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I think it should be removed.
>>> 
>>> --Alex
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: SuichII, Christopher [mailto:chris.su...@netapp.com]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 5:26 AM
>>>> To: <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>
>>>> Subject: Removal of cloud-plugin-netapp
>>>> 
>>>> I remember seeing/hearing some discussion about removing the cloud-
>>>> plugin-netapp component since it is not used or really managed any
>>>> more. Is
>>>> this still in the works? One of the dependencies (manageontap.jar) will
>>>> conflict with one of the dependencies of our (in development) plugin.
>>>> The
>>>> version of manageontap.jar used by CloudStack is different than what we
>>>> require in our plugin and would likely cause runtime issues if still
>>>> included in
>>>> the MS classpath.
>>>> 
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Chris
>>>> --
>>>> Chris Suich
>>>> chris.su...@netapp.com
>>>> NetApp Software Engineer
>>>> Data Center Platforms - Cloud Solutions
>>>> Citrix, Cisco & Red Hat
>>> 
>> 
> 

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