OK - thanks, Vijay!
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Vijayendra Bhamidipati < vijayendra.bhamidip...@citrix.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Your opensource vi java code will be close to what you would implement > using the closed source vi sdk, so though you will have to rewrite some > code, it should be possible to reuse much of your core code, especially > with spec preparation and the like. Cloudstack code already has useful > functions that let you retrieve dynamic properties etc from MORs, so you > would need to replace some of your vi java code with those functions. You > cannot however mix vi java with vi sdk in cloudstack, which uses only vi > sdk. You also won't need to setup the vmware service context, it's already > there in Vmwareresource.java, so you can use that. > > Regards, > Vijay > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Tutkowski [mailto:mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:40 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: VMware API Question > > Hi, > > I recently completed work in the new storage framework related to > XenServer where I dynamically create a storage repository when attaching a > newly created volume, if need be. > > I now need to implement the same concept for VMware. > > The idea is that I have zone-wide primary storage that is backed by a > plug-in (all new in 4.2). > > When the user creates a volume, we still just add a row to the volumes > table that describes this volume. > > When the user goes to attach this volume to a VM, the storage framework > invokes my plug-in and my plug-in goes off to its SAN to create a > volume...returning info like IQN. > > Next the VMware attach logic is invoked. In this dynamic kind of zone-wide > storage, I need to detect in this VMware code that we do not yet have a > datastore and create this datastore based on the IQN I returned earlier > (and other info like IP address). > > I have this all working for XenServer and am now turning my attention to > VMware. > > My question is simply this: > > It looks like VmwareResourse is written with VI SDK. Since I have my > "create/delete datastore" logic already written in the VI Java API ( > http://vijava.sourceforge.net/), I was wondering if it's possible to mix > these two approaches or if I will have to re-write my code. > > Thanks! > > -- > *Mike Tutkowski* > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > o: 303.746.7302 > Advancing the way the world uses the > cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > *(tm)* > -- *Mike Tutkowski* *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com o: 303.746.7302 Advancing the way the world uses the cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> *™*
