[jira] [Created] (CLOUDSTACK-3279) Need mechanism to detect if hotadd for cpu/memory is supported per a specific guest OS supported by VMware.

["Sateesh Chodapuneedi (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Sateesh Chodapuneedi created CLOUDSTACK-3279:
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             Summary: Need mechanism to detect if hotadd for cpu/memory is supported per a specific guest OS supported by VMware.
                 Key: CLOUDSTACK-3279
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-3279
             Project: CloudStack
          Issue Type: Bug
      Security Level: Public (Anyone can view this level - this is the default.)
          Components: VMware
    Affects Versions: 4.2.0
            Reporter: Sateesh Chodapuneedi
            Assignee: Sateesh Chodapuneedi
            Priority: Critical
             Fix For: 4.2.0


Vmware publishes a list for  vmware guest os and their supported capabilities for each vmware release. Example for guest OS Ubuntu 10.04 and ESX some release 4.x we only support hot add of vcpu (and not hot add memory)
GuestOS Release 
Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop 
Supported Releases 
ESX 4.1 U31, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 4.1 U21, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 4.1 U11, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 4.12, 1, 6, 5, 4, 3
Support Details 
Hot Add vCPU etc....
More info @ http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/pdf/VMware_GOS_Compatibility_Guide.pdf

Vmware says that the attributes hot add cpu and memory should be turned on during deployment of vm (i.e. As part of deployvm api) so that in future the user can dynamically scale cpu and memory(scale vm api). Now I wanted to understand how to enforce this check in Cloudstack. The best would be Vmware providing a method to check whether hot add cpu and memory is enabled for the current GuestOS version in the vmware release. Need such mechanism. 

This is related to dynamic scaling of cpu/memory in case of VMware environments.

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