Thanks for the reply!

Ivan


18.06.2014, 21:43, "Alex Huang" <alex.hu...@citrix.com>:
> Hi Ivan,
>
> To introduce a new hypervisor, it's a matter of
> - Adding a new Discoverer implementation to tell CloudStack which Resource 
> best works with the new Hypervisor.
> - Adding a new Resource implementation that deals with all of the hypervisor 
> commands sent to it.  This is the big part due to the large set of commands 
> we send to it.
>
> For someone who understands CloudStack code and the hypervisor well, I think 
> a prototype can be done in about two months or so.  For ESX, you have to 
> figure out a how to map functions that CS supports but is not with ESX.  For 
> example, I think migration and live storage migration.  You can decide not to 
> support them in the prototype and just support simple vm/volume/network life 
> cycle for now.
>
> --Alex
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Ivan Efremov [mailto:e...@yandex.ru]
>>  Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:31 AM
>>  To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
>>  Subject: Re: Managing individual ESXi instances
>>
>>  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

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