Nebu VMM extension for VMware

##What is it?

This extension brings VMware support to Nebu. It allows users to perform automated virtual machine deployment and placement in combination with vCloud and vSphere. It provides an API to the Nebu Core. The API it provides is specified here.

##How to run it?

This extension has multiple dependencies. These are all explained below.

###Nebu Common Java This project uses objects from the Nebu Common library. To run this extension, the Nebu Common library should be installed with maven. See this page for more details on how to install Nebu Common Java.

###vSphere & vCloud

This extension depends on the use of both vSphere as vCloud. It requires access to Java libraries for both these systems.

####vCloud

For vCloud, the vCloud Director SDK version 5.1.0 is required. This project assumes that this jar is installed through maven with the following specifications:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.vmware</groupId>
  <artifactId>vcloud-java-sdk</artifactId>
  <version>5.1.0</version>
</dependency>

####vSphere

For vSphere, this project depends on vijava version 5.1. This is an open source library that works with vSphere. You can find vijava at sourceforge.

To work, the vijava jar needs to be installed through maven with the following specifications:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.vmware</groupId>
  <artifactId>vijava</artifactId>
  <version>5.1</version>
</dependency>

Additionally, the VMware extension requires the vSphere account that is used to have a number of permissions. These are:

Entity	Permission name
Datastore	Allocate space
Resource	Migrate powered off virtual machine
Resource	Migrate powered on virtual machine
Scheduled Task	Create tasks
Scheduled Task	Modify task
Scheduled Task	Remove task
Scheduled Task	Run task
Virtual Machine Interaction	Power off
Virtual Machine Interaction	Power on
Datastore cluster	Configure a datastore cluster

###Configuration file

To provide an API to the Nebu Core and to connect to the VMware APIs, a configuration file is required. An example file is included in the repo called config.xml. This configuration file is self-explanatory. The key file field is not mandatory.

Can I run it now?

Yes! The repo includes a run script to make things even easier. This script runs the program through maven. This script assumes that the configuration file is called ../nebu-vmm-vmware-config.xml. Please not that this also assumes that the file is in the directory above the current directory.

deltaforge/nebu-vmm-vmware

Nebu VMM extension for VMware

Can I run it now?