Re: RE: [Xen-API] Xen-API: XMLRPC Documentation

[George Shuklin <george.shuklin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ð ÐÑÐ, 27/08/2010 Ð 16:28 +0200, Alberto GonzÃlez RodrÃguez ÐÐÑÐÑ:

> > ... And this cause problems for any third party applications: they
> need
> > to use XenAPI calls to host master to get any, may be non-important
> > information every time. We wants to show customer list of 10 VMs? We
> > need to do _TEN_ XenAPI call just to get data to display (customer
> press
> > 'f5' and we sending requests again). As alternative we can get
> status
> > for all VM, but this unacceptable in case of thousands customers.
> >
> 
> I think you should use another strategy for it. On xenwebmanager i
> only do a call for get all data (when user is connected), and i get
> updates from xapi calling to event.next, then i save it into memory
> and i only need use this information saved in memory for show data 


Yes, this works fine until you are talking about 100-200-300 VM. But let
assume a some big cloud with 10000 VMs. Customer see only 10-20-30 of
them, and he needs to see their status and get updates of their state.

What is shall do? Requesting state for all VM? Requesting state for each
vm in list? Both of them are N.G. Simple selection from database will
helps. Right now we implement a DB as additional level over XCP, wich
serve requests.

But isn't it too much levels? xen, libxc, xapi, XenAPI, mongo DB, yet
another interface to clients.... I'm still in research state, but I hope
we will find some kind of cute solution (and I can't decide between
ocaml xapi and python xend... Tune xend may be simpler in term of
language, but xapi is already have many functions implemented...)


(skip)


>>> I don't understand... xapi does support HTTP/1.1 with persistent
connections-- do you mean something different?
>>OK, may be I wrong, but how I could do few post requests for XenAPI
>>via single http connections? It is really possible? If yes, this will
>>close this nasty question.

>if you sniff xencenter connections (or openxenmanager/xenwebmanager
>using xmlrpclib on python) you will see only a connection

>Here there is some information
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_persistent_connection

Thank you, I will dig in it and hope it helps.
---
wBR, George.
 


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