Hi Alex, How do you think, what is the rough estimation of adding ESX API support to CloudStack? AFAIU the main point of integration of the new API is plugins/hypervisors. Are there any other major points that should be patched when adding a new hypervisor type?
Thanks, Ivan 18.06.2014, 18:24, "Alex Huang" <alex.hu...@citrix.com>: > 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
