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Aaron Coburn resolved VCL-499. ------------------------------ Resolution: Fixed Assignee: Aaron Coburn Added code to control a cluster of VMWare hosts through a vCenter host. > support for controlling VMware vCenter infrastructure through the vSphere SDK > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: VCL-499 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-499 > Project: VCL > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: vcld (backend) > Environment: VMware vCenter infrastructure > Reporter: Aaron Coburn > Assignee: Aaron Coburn > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 2.3 > > Attachments: Cluster.pm, vCenter.pm, vCenter.pm > > > The VCL's vSphere SDK module supports direct communication with ESX hosts, > but not with the vCenter. This is relevant for VMware clusters with > distributed resource scheduling enabled. > I have written a module as a subclass of the vSphere_SDK package, which I > have called vCenter.pm. This works with version 2.2.1. We use this in the VCL > implementation at Amherst College. The vCenter module makes two primary > changes in how the vSphere_SDK package works. First, it reimplements any call > to VIExt::get_host_view(), which does not work in the context of a vCenter. > And secondly, moving and copying a virtual disk by means of the > VirtualDiskManager does not work with a vCenter connection, so these > functions had to be manually implemented using a FileManager object. > In addition to the vCenter package, there is a VMware::Cluster module that > redefines the value of > $VCL::Module::Provisioning::VMware::VMware::VSPHERE_SDK_PACKAGE. This is a > subclass of the VMware package and is the package referenced in the VCL's > "module" table. > For our implementation, I also added a 'datacenter' value to vcld.conf which > provides the name of the datacenter. > The corresponding changes in utils.pm are here: > 223d222 > < $DATACENTER > 264d262 > < our ($DATACENTER) = 0; > 434,437d431 > < #Datacenter name > < if ($l =~ /datacenter=([-a-zA-Z0-9]+)/) { > < $DATACENTER = $1; > < } > (It would be more elegant to add a field to the database for this, as it > corresponds to the entry in vmprofile, but this was simpler to implement) > The VMware::Cluster and VMware::vCenter modules are attached to this issue as > files. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira