Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Management APIs for backup and recovery

[Manigandan <bmani27@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much.. I will read about this more. Let me know if you find anything interesting in your research :)

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:04 PM, George Shuklin <george.shuklin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes, xapi do have XenAPI (pretty good documented for XenServer and XCP).
You can do snapshots and export them.

Right now I'm researching more interesting way to backup VMs via
snapshot on storage LVM (not created by xapi) and accessing LVM within
this snapshot locally on storage (kinda hack...).


Ð ÐÑÑ, 21/06/2011 Ð 15:56 +0530, Manigandan ÐÐÑÐÑ:

> Thanks George...
>
>
> Folks at xen-api, can you help with the below question?
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:09 PM, George Dunlap
> <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Â Â Â Â I think your best bet is to interface with xapi, which is
> Â Â Â Â being run as
> Â Â Â Â a separate project (though obviously tightly coupled).
> Â Â Â Â xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is the best place to find the
> Â Â Â Â people you
> Â Â Â Â want to talk to.
>
> Â Â Â Â Peace,
> Â Â Â Â Â-George
>
>
> Â Â Â Â On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Manigandan
> Â Â Â Â <bmani27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Â Â Â Â > Hello Everyone,
> Â Â Â Â > I am from a backup software company and am looking into the
> Â Â Â Â methods to
> Â Â Â Â > backup the Xen vms. We have already solutions for Vmware and
> Â Â Â Â HyperV. We are
> Â Â Â Â > now concentrating on the Xen virtualization due to the
> Â Â Â Â market gain that Xen
> Â Â Â Â > is gettting. So wanted to know
> Â Â Â Â > 1) If Xen has a management SDK/APIs that can be used to
> Â Â Â Â manage the VMs
> Â Â Â Â > remotely
> Â Â Â Â > 2) If Xen has disk access APIs that can be used to
> Â Â Â Â read/write Xen virtual
> Â Â Â Â > disks.
> Â Â Â Â >
> Â Â Â Â > --
> Â Â Â Â > Thanks in Advance,
> Â Â Â Â > -Mani.
> Â Â Â Â >
>
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> -Mani.
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