IIRC, the reason is because the vCenter API is more powerful than the ESX API. At the time (before Apache), the features that requested needed vCenter. There's currently no proposal to use plain ESXi. Would love to see one though.
--Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: Ivan Efremov [mailto:e...@yandex.ru] > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 8:26 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Managing individual ESXi instances > > Hi all, > > I've sent this mail to the users list but this one looks as the better > destination. > > I'm new to the CloudStack platform and I'm wondering why the platform > does need the vCenter API and can not use ESXi directly, > > Can anyone elaborate on this? > Are there any proposals for adding ESXi integration to CloudStack? > > > Thanks, > Ivan
