Problem: In Vmware, appliances that have options that are required to be answered before deployments are configurable through vSphere vCenter user interface but it is not possible from the CloudStack user interface.
Root cause: CloudStack does not handle vApp configuration options during deployments if the appliance contains configurable options. These configurations are mandatory for VM deployment from the appliance on Vmware vSphere vCenter. As shown in the image below, Vmware detects there are mandatory configurations that the administrator must set before deploy the VM from the appliance (in red on the image below):
Solution:
On template registration, after it is downloaded to secondary storage, the OVF file is examined and OVF properties are extracted from the file when available.
OVF properties extracted from templates after being downloaded to secondary storage are stored on the new table 'template_ovf_properties'.
A new optional section is added to the VM deployment wizard in the UI:
If the selected template does not contain OVF properties, then the optional section is not displayed on the wizard.
If the selected template contains OVF properties, then the optional new section is displayed. Each OVF property is displayed and the user must complete every property before proceeding to the next section.
If any configuration property is empty, then a dialog is displayed indicating that there are empty properties which must be set before proceeding
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The specific OVF properties set on deployment are stored on the 'user_vm_details' table with the prefix: 'ovfproperties-'.
The VM is configured with the vApp configuration section containing the values that the user provided on the wizard.
Currently an admin can choose which host a VM is to be started on.
They should be able to 'override' the allocation algorthm to a greater
or lesser extent at will, and be able to choose the pod, cluster or host
that they wish a new VM to be deployed in.
DeployVirtualMachine API has been extended with additional, optional
parameters podid and clusterid that will be passed to and used in the
deployment planner, when selecting a viable host. If the user supplies
a pod, a suitable host in the given pod will be selected. If the user
supplies a cluster, a suitable host in the given cluster will be selected.
Based on the parameter supplied and on passing validation, the VM will
then be deployed on the selected host, cluster or pod.
Allows creating storage offerings associated with particular domain(s) and zone(s). In create disk/storage offfering form UI, a mult-select control has been addded to select desired zone(s) and domain select element has been made multi-select.
createDiskOffering API has been modified to allow passing list of domain and zone IDs with keys domainids and zoneids respectively. These lists are stored in DB in cloud.disk_offering_details table with 'domainids' and 'zoneids' key as string of comma separated list of IDs. Response for create, update and list disk offering APIs will return domainids, domainnames, zoneids and zonenames in details object of offering.
listDiskOfferings API has been modified to allow passing zoneid to return only offerings which are associated with the zone.
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com>
Problem: Custom compute offering does not allow setting min and max values for CPU and VRAM for custom VMs.
Root Cause: Custom compute offerings cannot be created with a given range of CPU number and memory instead it allows only fixed values.
Solution: createServiceOffering API has been modified to allow setting a defined range for CPU number and memory. Also, UI form for compute offering creation is provided with a new field named 'compute offering type’ with values - Fixed, Custom Constrained, Custom Constrained. It will allow the creation of compute offerings either with a fixed CPU speed and memory for fixed compute offering, or with a range of CPU number and memory for custom constrained compute offering or without predefined CPU number, CPU speed and memory for custom unconstrained compute offering.
To allow the user to set CPU number, CPU speed and memory during VM deployment, UI form for VM deployment has been modified to provide controls to change these values. These controls are depicted in screenshots below for custom constrained and custom unconstrained compute offering types.
Sample API calls using cmk to create a constrained service offering and deploying a VM using it,
create serviceoffering name=Constrained displaytext=Constrained customized=true mincpunumber=2 maxcpunumber=4 cpuspeed=400 minmemory=256 maxmemory=1024
deploy virtualmachine displayname=ConstrainedVM serviceofferingid=60f3e500-6559-40b2-9a61-2192891c2bd6 templateid=8e0f4a3e-601b-11e9-9df4-a0afbd4a2d60 zoneid=9612a0c6-ed28-4fae-9a48-6eb207af29e3 details[0].cpuNumber=3 details[0].memory=800
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.kumar@shapeblue.com>
In the cloudstack UI fields get '<', '>' and '&' replaced by xml-entities
these are generic for all fields and hurt us in the case of userdata
this fix calls the existing method to reverse character replacements.
it also removes the ccs class that pretends to prevent special chars
Fixes#3202
While executing the find/replace, I found some blocks of duplicated code. Therefore, I extracted the duplicated part to an utils file, and then removed the duplicated blocks.
CloudStack volumes and templates are one single virtual disk in case of XenServer/XCP and KVM hypervisors since the files used for templates and volumes are virtual disks (VHD, QCOW2). However, VMware volumes and templates are in OVA format, which are archives that can contain a complete VM including multiple VMDKs and other files such as ISOs. And currently, Cloudstack only supports Template creation based on OVA files containing a single disk. If a user creates a template from a OVA file containing more than 1 disk and launches an instance using this template, only the first disk is attached to the new instance and other disks are ignored.
Similarly with uploaded volumes, attaching an uploaded volume that contains multiple disks to a VM will result in only one VMDK to being attached to the VM.
FS: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Support+OVA+files+containing+multiple+disks
This behavior needs to be improved in VMWare to support OVA files with multiple disks for both uploaded volumes and templates. i.e. If a user creates a template from a OVA file containing more than 1 disk and launches an instance using this template, the first disk should be attached to the new instance as the ROOT disk and volumes should be created based on other VMDK disks in the OVA file and should be attached to the instance.
Signed-off-by: Abhinandan Prateek <abhinandan.prateek@shapeblue.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohit Yadav <rohit.yadav@shapeblue.com>
This commit includes three changes:
(1) Revert commit 13bf1ec5da9891eca98ef5dab61bf74b6db9530b to show the 'root disk size' field
(2) Set the default value from '1' to empty. This also changes the default value of customized service offerings from '1' to empty.
(3) show 'root disk size' field only when users choose a KVM template, as cloudstack supports deployvm with rootdisksize on KVM only.
CLOUDSTACK-8976 - Sorting of security groupsSimple change to sort the security groups in alphabetical order within the instance creation wizard.
This makes it much easier to find a security group when the user is presented with a long list.
* pr/937:
Sorting of security groups
Signed-off-by: Remi Bergsma <github@remi.nl>
For UI plugin development, add new event
'cloudStack.deployVirtualMachine'
-- This passes the wizard form data and all parameters that will be
passed to deployVirtualMachine; allows plugin to extend data to pass
additonal data automatically (i.e, custom form fields)
Adds front-end support to instance wizard UI for service offerings
supporting multiple disks.
The UI changes will show if a list 'multipleDisks: []' is passed with
the disk offering data options.
Added fields to /api and /server classes for CustomDiskOfferingMinSize
to be available in CapabilitiesResponse. Fixed UI code in Instance
Wizard to have this config value as the minimum selectable option when
we are in custom disk size mode.
