Re: What're the differences between vcloud and vcloud-director in labs?

[Andrew Phillips <ap...@qrmedia.com>]

> $Subject? When do you think someone should use one over the other? It's
> kind of confusing as of now.

 From what I know (and I'm hardly the expert here!), the vcloud API in  
jclouds "main" is an implementation for the vCloud 1.0 API [1]. It's  
older than the vcloud-director API in labs , which according to the  
metadata is an implementation for the vCloud Director 1.5 API [2].

The latter, however, was still work-in-progress, and seeing as the  
vCloud API is now at version 5.1, is also outdated. But it would  
appear that the chances of getting jclouds to work with a 5.1  
installations of vCDC are greater with vcloud-director (since 5.1  
installations often still support 1.5) than with vcloud. The latter is  
more complete, but expects an even older version of the API.

It goes without saying that any contribution to help bring either of  
the two back up to date would be highly appreciated!

ap

[1]  
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/apis/vcloud/src/main/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/VCloudApiMetadata.java
[2]  
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-labs/blob/master/vcloud-director/src/main/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/director/v1_5/VCloudDirectorApiMetadata.java

Re: What're the differences between vcloud and vcloud-director in labs?

[Andrew Phillips <ap...@qrmedia.com>]

> I used to try vcloud and I got it to work with vcloud director 5.1 (vcloud
> 1.5) with some patches (that is sometime back).
>
> Would you still like to get them in for vcloud?

Certainly! Any contributions that bring the APIs and providers back up  
to date are welcome.

@all: In order to try to understand the vcloud vs. vcloud-director  
situation better, could anyone with more knowledge of the background  
here help clarify why vcloud-director was started? If we're going to  
get work done to bring vCloud support back up to date, we obviously  
want to do that on the "best" base...

Regards

ap

Re: What're the differences between vcloud and vcloud-director in labs?

[Nirmal Fernando <ni...@wso2.com>]

I used to try vcloud and I got it to work with vcloud director 5.1 (vcloud
1.5) with some patches (that is sometime back).

Would you still like to get them in for vcloud?


On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Andrew Phillips <ap...@qrmedia.com>wrote:

>  $Subject? When do you think someone should use one over the other? It's
>> kind of confusing as of now.
>>
>
> From what I know (and I'm hardly the expert here!), the vcloud API in
> jclouds "main" is an implementation for the vCloud 1.0 API [1]. It's older
> than the vcloud-director API in labs , which according to the metadata is
> an implementation for the vCloud Director 1.5 API [2].
>
> The latter, however, was still work-in-progress, and seeing as the vCloud
> API is now at version 5.1, is also outdated. But it would appear that the
> chances of getting jclouds to work with a 5.1 installations of vCDC are
> greater with vcloud-director (since 5.1 installations often still support
> 1.5) than with vcloud. The latter is more complete, but expects an even
> older version of the API.
>
> It goes without saying that any contribution to help bring either of the
> two back up to date would be highly appreciated!
>
> ap
>
> [1] https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/apis/
> vcloud/src/main/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/VCloudApiMetadata.java
> [2] https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-labs/blob/master/
> vcloud-director/src/main/java/org/jclouds/vcloud/director/v1_5/
> VCloudDirectorApiMetadata.java
>



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