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On 09/05/13 09:10 -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
>On 05/09/2013 02:45 AM, Vaddi, Kiran Kumar wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Request review and feedback for the blueprint (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/hypervisor-templates-as-glance-images)
>>
>> Rationale:
>> VMware vCenter already has the deployable images in the form of "Templates". (Other hypervisors like RHEVM also have templates) This blueprint proposes to make
>>   1. Glance to be aware the vCenter templates.
>>   2. Avoid upload of VMware templates into the image server.
>>
>> This allows users to leverage their existing vCenter templates and vCenter template deployment optimizations.
>> The same design can be extended to other hypervisors as well.
>
>You use RHEVM (oVirt) as a comparable example here.  The problem is that
>oVirt is *not* a hypervisor.  oVirt is a full-on virtualization
>management system.  oVirt uses libvirt+KVM and Nova supports *that*, not
>oVirt.
>
>It seems like we're violating layers, here.  It feels like all of this
>vCenter stuff is getting hacked in, even though it's not quite
>appropriate for our architecture.

I agree with Russell.

I'd like to see this explained a bit better and see if it really fits
into the project plans. FWIW, I don't see the exact advantage of
implementing this but again, I'd like to know more details about the
idea. 

@Vaddi Would you be able to join todays meeting and share some thoughts in
the open-question time?

Cheers,
FF

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