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ManageVMware Vsphere With ManageIQ

The document discusses new features in ManageIQ for VMware vSphere in the Darga release. It covers support for vSphere distributed switches, ability to add and remove disks from VMs, and collection of datastore clusters. It also discusses performance improvements from using paged inventory collection and handling of read-only datastores. Future plans mentioned include support for storage policy based management and enhanced vApp capabilities.

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ManageVMware Vsphere With ManageIQ

The document discusses new features in ManageIQ for VMware vSphere in the Darga release. It covers support for vSphere distributed switches, ability to add and remove disks from VMs, and collection of datastore clusters. It also discusses performance improvements from using paged inventory collection and handling of read-only datastores. Future plans mentioned include support for storage policy based management and enhanced vApp capabilities.

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ManageIQ for VMware

vSphere
Adam Grare
Agenda

Introduction

What’s new for vSphere in Darga?

What’s next?

Q&A
Introduction

Adam Grare - ManageIQ Developer and Red Hat Senior Software


Engineer focusing on VMware vSphere Provider

Email: [email protected]

Gitter: @agrare
What’s new in Darga?

Features
vSphere Distributed Switches (VDS)

VM Reconfigure - Adding/Removing Disks

Datastore Clusters

Behind the scenes


Paged inventory collection for large environments

Read-only datastore handling


New Features in Darga for vSphere
vSphere Distributed Switches (VDS)
vSphere Distributed Switches - what are they?
The Problem:
Traditionally host networking was configured per-host, and multiple
networks had to have the same name for vMotion to work
vSphere Distributed Switches - what are they?
The Problem:
As the number of hosts grew configuration overhead increased as did the
potential for errors
vSphere Distributed Switches - what are they?
The Solution:
A VDS aggregates host NICs into a single switch

This allows the administrator to configure networking in a single location


vSphere Distributed Switches in ManageIQ

ManageIQ already supported provisioning a VM to a VDS by querying the


vCenter directly (a temporary workaround added in 2010)

This caused issues with networking and session size due to caching all
the VDS and LANs
vSphere Distributed Switches - what’s new?

DistributedVirtualSwitch and DistributedVirtualPortGroup were added to


our VMwareWebService gem

The relationship between switches and hosts was changed from 1:1 to
many-to-many, and a new model, HostSwitch, was created to track the
associations
vSphere Distributed Switches - what’s new?

Distributed switches are now collected with inventory refresh, are stored in
VMDB, and can be seen on the host network summary page
vSphere Distributed Switches - what’s new?
This allows you to provision VMs to a VDS LAN without communicating
directly to the vCenter
vSphere Distributed Switches - Demo
vSphere Distributed Switches - what’s next?

Improve how VDS are displayed


Currently a switch is shown for each host member

Want to move display of VDS to the provider level with better


summary screens
vSphere Distributed Switches - what’s next?

Extend the EventCatcher to pick up new DVPortGroups without a full


refresh

This will help us integrate better with SDDC tools like NSX which
dynamically create DVS LANs
VM Reconfigure - Adding/Removing Disks
VM Reconfigure - Adding/Removing Disks

In Addition to CPUs and Memory, Disks can now be added to and


removed from VMs using the Reconfigure Virtual Machine page
VM Reconfigure - Adding/Removing Disks

Multiple disks can be added and removed in the same ReconfigVM_Task


up to the maximum number that VMware supports (60 disks)

Disks can be thin or thick provisioned, and snapshot dependence and


persistence can be set by the user
VM Reconfigure - Adding/Removing Disks - Demo
Datastore Clusters
Datastore Clusters
Similar to Compute Clusters for hosts, Datastore Clusters allow
aggregation of individual datastore resources and automated Storage
vMotion through Storage DRS
Datastore Clusters - what’s new?

The StoragePod type was added to our VMwareWebService


gem

Datastore Clusters are now collected in inventory refresh


Datastore Clusters - what’s new?

Displayed in a tree-view on the Storage page


Datastore Clusters - what’s new?
When provisioning a VM, datastores will show which cluster
they are in
Datastore Clusters - what’s next?

Collect if Storage DRS is enabled and allow provisioning to


the datastore cluster, not just a specific datastore
Behind the Scenes
Paged inventory collection

Initial inventory collection used to be done in a single API call

With large environments it would hit our HTTP timeout, and we would
progressively increase this timeout and retry
Paged inventory collection

Now initial inventory is retrieved in pages and the timeout+retry loop has
been removed, speeding up large inventory collection

Both WaitForUpdates and RetrieveProperties were updated to collect


inventory in pages
Read-only datastores

Mounting an NFS datastore read-only is common for datastores


containing e.g.: ISO images

These were sometimes being picked by users or auto-placement during


provisioning and the VM provision would fail
Read-only datastores

Now we track the mount-info of each datastore to each host in the


HostStorage model

If a datastore is mounted read-only it will be excluded from the


provisioning dialog
What’s next for the E-Release?

Add Support for Storage Policy Based Management

Display Policy on VMs and Datastores

Select an existing policy when provisioning a VM

This will be first new vSphere Management SDK endpoint added since
VIM
What’s next for the E-Release?

Enhanced vApp support

Power Operations

Cloning

Provisioning
What’s next for the E-Release?

Improve on features added in Darga

VDS

Datastore Clusters
Q&A

Questions?
Thank You!

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