Thank you so much for both of the suggestions ! Aiming to build a platform which has load balancing functionality of vm operation, we've tried for a while. We are now trying to use a load balancing tool to call the functions that vcl has implemented based on the vmware perl toolkit. In this respect, the vcl project has given us considerable help. For the fact Brian has shown, we'll try to research on and find a practical method to customize part of the code of vcl to meet our need. Thanks again for your help !
2009/5/16 Brian Bouterse <[email protected]> > When Andrew and I built the esx.pm provisioning module that was developed > at the Open Systems Collaboration and Research Lab (OSCaR), we wanted to > build load balancing functionality based on feedback from the usage of the > servers in real time. From our evaluation, there is not reasonable way to > do this with the VCL 2.X architecture. The heart of the problem is that the > 2.X architecture achieves scheduling through a combination of frontend code, > backend code, and a database in the middle. The placement decision (which > hypervisor an image will run on) is decided in the frontend, so no amount of > API's will enable this decision to be more intelligent without rewriting > portions of both the frontend and backend to being ESX aware and ESX > specific. Over time, integrating a large number of resource types makes > this integration path intractable. > > Having tried to implement this into VCL 2.X, this feature use case is what > brought about the proposal of an alternative VCL architecture to accommodate > these types of features and extensions in a more reasonable way/ (found > here: > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Experimental+VCL+Architecture+Document). > An implementation of this experimental architecture is nearing the proof of > concept stage, and I will commit the POC code of the proposed experimental > architecture to a branch of the SVN next week. I would encourage your team > to use that as a starting point for the integration you propose. It could > be done easily by rewriting the PlacementController component inside the ESX > Resource Manager, which will contain a simple round robin scheduler as it > goes to pair images with hypervisors to run on. More documentation will > also be provided along with the initial code commit to help get you started. > > Best, > Brian > > > Brian Bouterse > Secure Open Systems Initiative > 919.698.8796 > > > > > > On May 15, 2009, at 12:44 AM, 杨杰 wrote: > > Hi, >> We are now trying to integrate VCL as a provision manager to a load >> banlancing tool. The experiment may help us to manage the VMs according to >> the server load automatically. >> >> The task demands definite understand on the API of VCL, which will >> considerably advance our experiment. How could i get it ? or is there any >> website to view the API document ? >> >> Thank you ! >> >> -- >> Yang Jie（杨杰） >> >> Team of MRMSS, Xi'an Jiaotong University >> >> Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University >> >> TEL: +8613468883723;029-82665263 EXT.24 >> >> MSN: [email protected] >> >> E-mail: [email protected] >> Don Marquis <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/don_marquis.html >> > >> - "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." >> > > -- Yang Jie（杨杰） Team of MRMSS, Xi'an Jiaotong University Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University TEL: +8613468883723;029-82665263 EXT.24 MSN: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Vince Lombardi<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/v/vince_lombardi.html> - "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
