diff --git a/api/src/com/cloud/storage/Storage.java b/api/src/com/cloud/storage/Storage.java
index 24ceb5b3fec..7ebdc5e187e 100644
--- a/api/src/com/cloud/storage/Storage.java
+++ b/api/src/com/cloud/storage/Storage.java
@@ -23,16 +23,25 @@ public class Storage {
         RAW(false, false, false),
         VHD(true, true, true),
         ISO(false, false, false),
-        VMDK(true, true, true);
+        VMDK(true, true, true, ".tar.bz2");
         
         private final boolean thinProvisioned;
         private final boolean supportSparse;
         private final boolean supportSnapshot;
+        private final String fileExtension;
         
         private ImageFormat(boolean thinProvisioned, boolean supportSparse, boolean supportSnapshot) {
             this.thinProvisioned = thinProvisioned;
             this.supportSparse = supportSparse;
             this.supportSnapshot = supportSnapshot;
+            fileExtension = null;
+        }
+        
+        private ImageFormat(boolean thinProvisioned, boolean supportSparse, boolean supportSnapshot, String fileExtension) {
+            this.thinProvisioned = thinProvisioned;
+            this.supportSparse = supportSparse;
+            this.supportSnapshot = supportSnapshot;
+            this.fileExtension = fileExtension;
         }
         
         public boolean isThinProvisioned() {
@@ -48,7 +57,10 @@ public class Storage {
         }
         
         public String getFileExtension() {
-            return toString().toLowerCase();
+        	if(fileExtension == null)
+        		return toString().toLowerCase();
+        	
+        	return fileExtension;
         }
     }
     
diff --git a/core/src/com/cloud/agent/api/storage/PrimaryStorageDownloadCommand.java b/core/src/com/cloud/agent/api/storage/PrimaryStorageDownloadCommand.java
index a9010d5782e..f11f17f1bb5 100644
--- a/core/src/com/cloud/agent/api/storage/PrimaryStorageDownloadCommand.java
+++ b/core/src/com/cloud/agent/api/storage/PrimaryStorageDownloadCommand.java
@@ -28,6 +28,16 @@ public class PrimaryStorageDownloadCommand extends AbstractDownloadCommand {
 	String localPath;
 	String poolUuid;
 	long poolId;
+	
+	//
+	// Temporary hacking to make vmware work quickly, expose NFS raw information to allow
+	// agent do quick copy over NFS.
+	//
+	// provide storage URL (it contains all information to help agent resource to mount the
+	// storage if needed, example of such URL may be as following
+	// 		nfs://192.168.10.231/export/home/kelven/vmware-test/secondary
+	String secondaryStorageUrl;
+	String primaryStorageUrl;
 
 	protected PrimaryStorageDownloadCommand() {
 	}
@@ -54,6 +64,22 @@ public class PrimaryStorageDownloadCommand extends AbstractDownloadCommand {
     	return localPath;
     }
     
+    public void setSecondaryStorageUrl(String url) {
+    	secondaryStorageUrl = url;
+    }
+    
+    public String getSecondaryStorageUrl() {
+    	return secondaryStorageUrl;
+    }
+    
+    public void setPrimaryStorageUrl(String url) {
+    	primaryStorageUrl = url;
+    }
+    
+    public String getPrimaryStorageUrl() {
+    	return primaryStorageUrl;
+    }
+    
     @Override
     public boolean executeInSequence() {
         return true;
diff --git a/core/src/com/cloud/storage/template/VmdkProcessor.java b/core/src/com/cloud/storage/template/VmdkProcessor.java
index b8d037c3538..fe060ab02de 100644
--- a/core/src/com/cloud/storage/template/VmdkProcessor.java
+++ b/core/src/com/cloud/storage/template/VmdkProcessor.java
@@ -20,20 +20,22 @@ public class VmdkProcessor implements Processor {
     @Override
     public FormatInfo process(String templatePath, ImageFormat format, String templateName) throws InternalErrorException {
         if (format != null) {
-            s_logger.debug("We currently don't handle conversion from " + format + " to VMDK.");
+        	if(s_logger.isInfoEnabled())
+        		s_logger.info("We currently don't handle conversion from " + format + " to VMDK.");
             return null;
         }
         
         s_logger.info("Template processing. templatePath: " + templatePath + ", templateName: " + templateName);
-        String templateFilePath = templatePath + File.separator + templateName + ".tar.bz2";
+        String templateFilePath = templatePath + File.separator + templateName + ImageFormat.VMDK.getFileExtension();
         if (!_storage.exists(templateFilePath)) {
-            s_logger.debug("Unable to find the vmware template file: " + templateFilePath);
+        	if(s_logger.isInfoEnabled())
+        		s_logger.info("Unable to find the vmware template file: " + templateFilePath);
             return null;
         }
         
         FormatInfo info = new FormatInfo();
         info.format = ImageFormat.VMDK;
-        info.filename = templateName + ".tar.bz2";
+        info.filename = templateName + ImageFormat.VMDK.getFileExtension();
         info.size = _storage.getSize(templateFilePath);
         info.virtualSize = info.size;
         return info;
diff --git a/server/src/com/cloud/template/TemplateManagerImpl.java b/server/src/com/cloud/template/TemplateManagerImpl.java
index 700aa85c42c..71fe9be0052 100644
--- a/server/src/com/cloud/template/TemplateManagerImpl.java
+++ b/server/src/com/cloud/template/TemplateManagerImpl.java
@@ -223,7 +223,13 @@ public class TemplateManagerImpl implements TemplateManager {
                 return templateStoragePoolRef;
             }
             String url = origUrl + "/" + templateHostRef.getInstallPath();
-            PrimaryStorageDownloadCommand dcmd = new PrimaryStorageDownloadCommand(template.getUniqueName(), url, template.getFormat(), template.getAccountId(), pool.getId(), pool.getUuid());
+            PrimaryStorageDownloadCommand dcmd = new PrimaryStorageDownloadCommand(template.getUniqueName(), url, template.getFormat(), 
+            	template.getAccountId(), pool.getId(), pool.getUuid());
+            HostVO secondaryStorageHost = _hostDao.findSecondaryStorageHost(pool.getDataCenterId());
+            assert(secondaryStorageHost != null);
+            dcmd.setSecondaryStorageUrl(secondaryStorageHost.getStorageUrl());
+            // TODO temporary hacking, hard-coded to NFS primary data store
+            dcmd.setPrimaryStorageUrl("nfs://" + pool.getHostAddress() + pool.getPath());
             
             for (StoragePoolHostVO vo : vos) {
                 if (s_logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
diff --git a/utils/src/com/cloud/utils/DateUtil.java b/utils/src/com/cloud/utils/DateUtil.java
index 436bb8df231..c6659a7cfe1 100644
--- a/utils/src/com/cloud/utils/DateUtil.java
+++ b/utils/src/com/cloud/utils/DateUtil.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
 package com.cloud.utils;
 
+import java.net.URI;
 import java.text.DateFormat;
 import java.text.ParseException;
 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
@@ -235,14 +236,22 @@ public class DateUtil {
     		throw new CloudRuntimeException("Incorrect interval: "+type.toString());
     	}
 
-
     	return scheduleTime.getTime();
     }
 
 	
 	// test only
 	public static void main(String[] args) {
-		
+		try {
+			URI uri = new URI("nfs://192.168.10.231/export/home/kelven/vmware-test/secondary");
+			System.out.println("protocol: " + uri.getScheme());
+			System.out.println("Host: " + uri.getHost());
+			System.out.println("path: " + uri.getPath());
+			System.out.println("port: " + uri.getPort());
+		} catch(Exception e) {
+		}
+		
+/*		
 		TimeZone localTimezone = Calendar.getInstance().getTimeZone();
 		TimeZone gmtTimezone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT");
 		TimeZone estTimezone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("EST");
@@ -265,6 +274,7 @@ public class DateUtil {
 			System.out.println("Parsed TZ time string : "+ dtParsed.toString());
 		} catch (ParseException e) {
 		}
+*/		
 	}
 }