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• Console access
  • RDP sessions to Hyper-V VMs

Architecture

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• Reuse KVM-style Agent Container
  • Java-based agent executes on hypervisor
  • Call out to WMI
• Use existing SystemVMs
• Local Primary Storage
  • Local folder
• Secondary storage accessed as NFS/SMB via Windows Server 2012
  • Free license Hyper-V Server 2012 has no NFS client
  • Admin manually mounts secondary storage to appear as local folder

Design changes

Near

Adopt Javelin Storage model

• Avoid NFS requirements

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Agent model

• Cloudstack agent model.
• C# based agent which makes WMI calls for operations on the hypervisor.
• Agent accepts json requests and does the necessary operations on the hypervisor.

V2 WMI API

• Currently mix of v1 and v2

Access WMI from Java

• Remove use of scripts
• Remove agent from Hyper-V server2012 R2 supports only root/virtualization/v2 namespace. WMI calls on the agent will use the same namespace.

Misc Design Notes

Local Storage

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