vsphere / vrealize provider

["Zin, Nicolas" <ni...@sap.com>]

Hi,

I think Brooklyn doesn’t support vmware as a provider (it seems that vsphere support is discontinued in jclouds). If I want to write my own provider, where in the code should I look at?
Also another question: does brooklyn allow to trigger policy by hand? (I want to be able to scale up/down but manually)


Regards,


Nicolas Zin

Re: vsphere / vrealize provider

[Alex Heneveld <al...@cloudsoftcorp.com>]

Hi Nicolas,

We've been encouraging VMware to support jclouds-vsphere but there are 
deprecated projects available and there are some commercial plugins for 
several of the vmware items including vsphere.  (Drop me a non-list 
email if you're interested in that.)

If you want to write your own you'll either want to provide a 
`MachineProvisioningLocation` implementation in Brooklyn (non-jclouds) 
or write a jclouds provider (or build on one of the deprecated ones) and 
add it to the `dropins` folder of Brooklyn (it will get picked up 
automatically).

And yes, you can manually invoke "effectors" via REST or UI or CLI -- 
these are the levers policies pull e.g. the autoscaler policy typically 
calls "resize".  You can also change policies (suspend, reconfigure, 
add, remove) at runtime.

HTH
Alex


On 14/12/2015 17:41, Zin, Nicolas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think Brooklyn doesn’t support vmware as a provider (it seems that vsphere support is discontinued in jclouds). If I want to write my own provider, where in the code should I look at?
> Also another question: does brooklyn allow to trigger policy by hand? (I want to be able to scale up/down but manually)
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Nicolas Zin
>