[Users] some ovirt questions

Oved Ourfalli ovedo at redhat.com
Wed Feb 29 08:00:31 UTC 2012



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Livnat Peer" <lpeer at redhat.com>
> To: "hai wu" <haiwu.us at gmail.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:56:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] some ovirt questions
> 
> On 29/02/12 00:56, hai wu wrote:
> > 1. For ovirt, and future rhev, what's the recommended way going
> > forward: ovirt node vs vsdm?
> 
> oVirt node has VDSM installed as well.
> 
> > 2. For ovirt, and future rhev, libvirt would be supported i think,
> > what's the recommended way in terms of API going forward? libvirt
> > API
> > or REST API? I am not sure what's the difference between these 2.
> > My
> > understanding is libvirt might only be good for one physical host,
> > and
> > REST API would be good for the whole cluster, is this the case?
> 
> VDSM is using libvirt to manage the VM lifecycle within the host.
> 
> There are 2 APIs that are being exposed and 'supported' in oVirt one
> is
> the REST-API the engine exposes which is used to manage Datacenters
> (Host, Networks, Storage, VMs etc.), and there is VDSM API which is
> used
> by the engine to execute operations in the host level.
> 
> You can take a look in the architecture slides to get a better
> understanding of what is going on -
> 
> http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Workshop_November_2011_-_Day_One
> 
> Arch & Work in progress (continued ) - slides
> 
You can also take a look at http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Architecture
It contains information from the slides mentioned above as well, but it gathers it all in one location.
(It is still lacking the UI architecture, but all the rest is there).

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