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
