RE: [Xen-cim] How can I use xen-CIM?

["Ashit Kumar" <Ashit_Kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gareth,

Thanks for the info.Actually i wanted to know if we can manage the VBDs on DomU from the Dom0. And how can we discover the backing storage on host system.Can we anyhow map these Xen-CIM model through CLI?

I hope i am making sense.Actually i want to map these Xen-CIM object through CLI for RHEL,as of now. This i guess will definitely make a contribution to the Xen development because RHEL distro for Xen-CIM is not targetted currently and these mappings may be a help for the users.

And i will be more than happy to volunteer :)

Thanks and regards

Ashit 

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From: Gareth S Bestor [mailto:bestor@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:49 PM
To: Ashit Kumar
Cc: xen-cim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-cim] How can I use xen-CIM?

Can you be more specific as to what 
you mean by "storage management"? The Xen-CIM providers today allow you to 
add/remove vbds to/from a DomU config, and have some rudimentary methods to 
discover backing storage on the host system, but otherwise there's no detailed 
'storage' instrumentation, like creating LUNs, etc. 

Please note the Xen-CIM providers are only intended to 
instrument the *virtualization* side of the story. To fully manage a 
virtualization environment you are probably going to want a suite of host-side 
CIM instrumentation to manage the actual physical resources on the host system, 
ie the backing resource which are then 'virtualized' to individual guests. 
There's a whole bunch of regular CIM providers out there, both Open Source and 
proprietary, for instrumenting regular host resource (processors, memory, SMIS 
storage, ...) that you can use to hook up to the Xen CIM providers to manage the 
host-side. I might suggest looking at the OMC project 
(http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/OMC). 

Storage virtualization modelling is still a 
work-in-progress in the DMTF SVPC workgroup; once a clearer picture with MOFs 
and Profiles mature from this effort the Xen CIM providers will start 
implementing more detailed instrumentation for it. If you'd like to contribute 
to either effort, we're always looking for volunteers! :-) 

- Gareth

Dr. Gareth S. Bestor
IBM Linux 
Technology Center
M/S DES2-01
15300 SW Koll Parkway, Beaverton, OR 
97006
503-578-3186, T/L 775-3186, Fax 503-578-3186

"Ashit Kumar" <Ashit_Kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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03/06/2007 09:12 AM

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Subject	[Xen-cim] How can I use xen-CIM?

Hi, 
Can anyone 
tell me that how can I use the Xen-CIM provider  for my Storage 
management? 
Basically I 
want some guidelines to get the xen-CIM and use it for Managing the Storage.I 
know it’s still in development but I guess I can use it for testing.

Otherwise, how can I do it (managing storage) through CLI .I am using XenLinx.
Thanks and regards
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