ok, np.
I'll go ahead and update both the database and get_vmhost_info routine in
utils.pm.
Encrypting the password - (I think you also mentioned this), but it might
be easier to use plain text on the password field at first and then once
that is working - encrypt the password via some method. This will also have
be synced with the front-end so VCLadmins and edit the vmprofiles.
Aaron
--On March 10, 2009 11:10:01 AM -0400 Brian Bouterse <bmbou...@ncsu.edu>
wrote:
You are correct, I misspoke in my previous note. What I meant to say
was: "We need the 'username' and 'password' fields added to vmprofile"
Sorry for the confusion.
-Brian
Brian Bouterse
Secure Open Systems Initiative
919.698.8796
On Mar 10, 2009, at 9:14 AM, Aaron Peeler wrote:
Also I think your meaning the vmprofile table.
vmhost table should only contain:
id
computerid
vmliimt
vmprofileid
The vmprofile table is to contain all the extra info so one can make
better use of normalization and easily define vmprofiles for one or
more vmhost. Once you start adding 10, 100 or more vmhost servers
it's cleaner to have as little as possible in the vmhost table.
The vmprofile table consists:
id
profilename -- name of profile
vmtypeid -- links to vmtype->id
imageid -- links to image->id defines the vhost server image
nasshare -- we're not using this one
datastorepath -- path to the vmdks
vmpath -- path to the vmx files could be same as datastorepath
virtualswitch0 -- vmware private switch name for .vmx files
virtualswitch1 -- vmware public switch name for .vmx files
vmdisk enum('localdisk', 'networkdisk') -- used in vmware.pm to
determine if using local disk on blade or using network mounted
datastore
So if that is all that's needed we extend vmprofile table to include
the username and password(or some key or a password hash and use
mcrypt like Josh mentioned) and suggest to make use of the datastore
and vmpath to define where the vmdks are and vmx files are
respectively. With that we also need to update the get_vmhost_info
routine in utils.pm.
An example of how vmware.pm is using datastore and vmpath - on the
vmware Server and the ESX standard server vmware.pm using the
vmprofile table to define separate locations for the vmdk files and
vmx files on a per-reservation basis. Since under normal user
mode(non-image creation) they get a vm that is in "independent-
nonpersistent" mode.
i.e.
on a ESX standard server vmprofile
datastore=/vmfs/volumes/Netapp
network mounted datastore for vmdks
/vmfs/volumes/Netapp/vmwareesx-base1-v0/
vmpath=/vmfs/volumes/Storage1
local storage is location for the vm's
/vmfs/volumes/Storage1/vmwareesx-base1-v0vclv1-1/
In the running vm directory it contains the vmx file that points to
the vmdk also it contains the memory files, etc.
Aaron
--On March 10, 2009 8:59:50 AM -0400 Josh Thompson
<josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu
> wrote:
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I've used mcrypt for all encryption in the frontend. I see perl
has an
mcrypt module available. So, I'd suggest looking at using it to
keep
things in line with the frontend.
On Monday March 09, 2009, Brian Bouterse wrote:
All we'll need are the 'username' and 'password' to vmhost? I've
updated the code to the example below based on feedback. I've set
the
username length to 32 which should be long enough, but I'm not sure
about the password. We want the ability to encrypt this later on
with
a private key. Any ideas here?
`username` varchar(32) NULL default 'NULL'
`password` varchar(128) NULL default 'NULL'
Also, does the code exist for us to have access to the already
existing 'datastorepath' field in the vmhost table? We can use that
for the rest of our datastore info for now.
Brian
Brian Bouterse
Secure Open Systems Initiative
On Mar 9, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Aaron Peeler wrote:
> Brian,
>
> Do you have a list of additional variables? Or is the username and
> password all that's needed to be added to the vmprofile table?
>
> Just glancing at esx.pm I see
>
> $vmhost_username
> $vmhost_password
> $datastore_ip
> $datastore_share_path
>
> $from -- is this or could this be similar to the datastorepath
> variable, where the vmdk's are at
>
> Aaron
>
>
> --On March 5, 2009 3:19:20 PM -0500 Brian Bouterse
>
> <bmbou...@ncsu.edu> wrote:
>> Heretofore, VCL SSH's to a hypervisor when it wants to cause some
>> change
>> (ie: provision or deprovision a VM). The VCL uses pre-shared SSH
>> keys
>> between VCL and the hypervisor to allow the SSHing the
authenticate.
>> This works for VMware server and regular ESX because they are
>> configurable to accept SSH keys. ESX 3i isn't configurable to
>> accept an
>> SSH logon, and can only be communicated with through a web
service
>> which
>> requires a valid hypervisor username and password.
>>
>> So I'd like to propose that we add a hypervisor username and
>> password in
>> the VCL database associated. As far as I can tell, there are two
>> places
>> to add this information.
>>
>> 1) Extend the 'vmhost' table to include a username field and a
>> password
>> field. This would allow each individual hypervisor to have its
own
>> user/pass. However, if all the hypervisors use the same user/
pass
>> then
>> we've just duplicated a lot of data, and it is very hard to
change
>> this
>> system wide password later.
>>
>> 2) Extend the 'vmprofile' table to include a username field
and a
>> password. In this case a group of hypervisors (linked through
the
>> same
>> vmprofile) would share a single user/pass. This would make
password
>> changes easier since it only has to be updated in one place, but
>> requires
>> hypervisors to have a consistant username/password across them.
>> Because
>> of the de-duplication of data, and easyness of password
changes, I
>> favor
>> of this second option.
>>
>> Whichever table it goes in, here are the lines to be added to the
>> vcl.sql
>> file:
>>
>> `username` varchar(8) NOT NULL default ''
>> `password` varchar(40) NOT NULL default ''
>>
>> Could someone tell us a bit about how to get that username and
>> password
>> out of the database and into our module as a variable?
>>
>> Best,
>> Brian
>>
>> Brian Bouterse
>> Secure Open Systems Initiative
>> 919.698.8796
>
> Aaron Peeler
> OIT Advanced Computing
> College of Engineering-NCSU
> 919.513.4571
> http://vcl.ncsu.edu
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Virtual Computing Lab (VCL)
North Carolina State University
josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu
919-515-5323
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OIT Advanced Computing
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919.513.4571
http://vcl.ncsu.edu
Aaron Peeler
OIT Advanced Computing
College of Engineering-NCSU
919.513.4571
http://vcl.ncsu.edu
