option 2 - vmprofile table is the definitely the correct location to store
this type of data.
The vmhost table will eventually only have 4 columns
id,computerid,vmlimit,vmprofileid.All additional info about a given
hypervisor should in a profile.
After extending the database - we'll need to extend the query in
utils::get_vmhost_info routine
Are there any other variables for the esx module that should go into the
vmprofile table?
Aaron
--On March 5, 2009 3:19:20 PM -0500 Brian Bouterse <bmbou...@ncsu.edu>
wrote:
Heretofore, VCL SSH's to a hypervisor when it wants to cause some change
(ie: provision or deprovision a VM). The VCL uses pre-shared SSH keys
between VCL and the hypervisor to allow the SSHing the authenticate.
This works for VMware server and regular ESX because they are
configurable to accept SSH keys. ESX 3i isn't configurable to accept an
SSH logon, and can only be communicated with through a web service which
requires a valid hypervisor username and password.
So I'd like to propose that we add a hypervisor username and password in
the VCL database associated. As far as I can tell, there are two places
to add this information.
1) Extend the 'vmhost' table to include a username field and a password
field. This would allow each individual hypervisor to have its own
user/pass. However, if all the hypervisors use the same user/pass then
we've just duplicated a lot of data, and it is very hard to change this
system wide password later.
2) Extend the 'vmprofile' table to include a username field and a
password. In this case a group of hypervisors (linked through the same
vmprofile) would share a single user/pass. This would make password
changes easier since it only has to be updated in one place, but requires
hypervisors to have a consistant username/password across them. Because
of the de-duplication of data, and easyness of password changes, I favor
of this second option.
Whichever table it goes in, here are the lines to be added to the vcl.sql
file:
`username` varchar(8) NOT NULL default ''
`password` varchar(40) NOT NULL default ''
Could someone tell us a bit about how to get that username and password
out of the database and into our module as a variable?
Best,
Brian
Brian Bouterse
Secure Open Systems Initiative
919.698.8796
Aaron Peeler
OIT Advanced Computing
College of Engineering-NCSU
919.513.4571
http://vcl.ncsu.edu
