Open Stack

Hi Qui Xing, 

We are planning to address the vCenter template issue by levering the OVF/OVA capabilities. 
Kiran's implementation is tied to a specific VC and requires to add Glance properties that are not generic. 
For existing templates, the workflow will be: 
. generate an *.ova tarball (containing the *.ovf descriptor + *.vmdk stream-optimized) out of the template, 
. register the *.ova as a Glance image location (using the VMware Glance driver see bp [1]) or simply upload the *.ova to another Glance store, 
. The VMware driver in Nova will be able to consume the *.ova (either through the location or by downloading the content to the cache): see bp [2]. However, for Icehouse, we are not planning to actually consume the *.ovf descriptor (work scheduled for the J/K release). 

[1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/vmware-datastore-storage-backend 
[2] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/vmware-driver-ova-support 

If you have questions about [1], please send me an email. For [2], please reach vuil. 


Thanks, 
Arnaud 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Shawn Hartsock" <hartsock at acm.org> 
To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org> 
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 9:37:34 AM 
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][VMware] Deploy from vCenter template 

IIRC someone who shows up at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/VMwareAPI#Meetings is planning on working on that again for Icehouse-3 but there's some new debate on the best way to implement the desired effect. The goal of that change would be to avoid streaming the disk image out of vCenter for the purpose of then streaming the same image back into the same vCenter. That's really inefficient. 

So there's a Nova level change that could happen (that's the patch you saw) and there's a Glance level change that could happen, and there's a combination of both approaches that could happen. 

If you want to discuss it informally with the group that's looking into the problem I could probably make sure you end up talking to the right people on #openstack-vmware or if you pop into the weekly team meeting on IRC you could mention it during open discussion time. 


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Qing Xin Meng < mengqxqx at cn.ibm.com > wrote: 





I saw a commit for Deploying from VMware vCenter template and found it's abandoned. 
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/34903 

Anyone knows the plan to support the deployment from VMware vCenter template? 


Thanks! 



Best Regards 

_______________________________________________ 
OpenStack-dev mailing list 
OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org 
http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev 







-- 
# Shawn.Hartsock - twitter: @hartsock - plus.google.com/+ShawnHartsock 

_______________________________________________ 
OpenStack-dev mailing list 
OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev&k=oIvRg1%2BdGAgOoM1BIlLLqw%3D%3D%0A&r=5wWaXo2oVaivfKLCMyU6Z9UTO8HOfeGCzbGHAT4gZpo%3D%0A&m=KCBtvBVSZCslDQrTvSEqBcTEcx%2FSKxtF0ZRIjtTFmSw%3D%0A&s=f45fbe293564be6a16c90b0125534e5e62f7505fea9f92708b72aa60e5e1dc5f 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20131217/d6ac7a19/attachment.html>