1. Backend: (1)API definition: POST /storagepools/isos/storagevolumes/upload {'file': fileobject} -- This is from backend view, as cherrypy's embedded support wraps fileobject. REF:http://docs.cherrypy.org/en/latest/pkg/cherrypy.tutorial.html?highlight=uplo... (2) implementation: We can get the file handler from cherrypy's embedded scheme, and use it to read and write to a local file, ref: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cherrypy-users/xGvxBGgQ90k The only thing we need to concern at backend is the file size, cherrypy demo has proposed a example leverage cgi lib: http://tools.cherrypy.org/wiki/DirectToDiskFileUpload 2. For UI, we need to supply user with a form which input type is 'file', or we construct formdata in ajax(for IE only supported in IE10+): REF: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6974684/how-to-send-formdata-objects-with... 3. To support the progress bar in UI, we can utilize resumable js: http://github.com/23/resumable.js