Xen Management APIs for backup and recovery

Xen Management APIs for backup and recovery

[Manigandan]

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Hello Everyone,

I am from a backup software company and am looking into the methods to
backup the Xen vms. We have already solutions for Vmware and HyperV. We are
now concentrating on the Xen virtualization due to the market gain that Xen
is gettting. So wanted to know

1) If Xen has a management SDK/APIs that can be used to manage the VMs
remotely
2) If Xen has disk access APIs that can be used to read/write Xen virtual
disks.

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Thanks in Advance,
-Mani.

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Re: Xen Management APIs for backup and recovery

[George Dunlap]

I think your best bet is to interface with xapi, which is being run as
a separate project (though obviously tightly coupled).
xen-api@lists.xensource.com is the best place to find the people you
want to talk to.

Peace,
 -George

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Manigandan <bmani27@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> I am from a backup software company and am looking into the methods to
> backup the Xen vms. We have already solutions for Vmware and HyperV. We are
> now concentrating on the Xen virtualization due to the market gain that Xen
> is gettting. So wanted to know
> 1) If Xen has a management SDK/APIs that can be used to manage the VMs
> remotely
> 2) If Xen has disk access APIs that can be used to read/write Xen virtual
> disks.
>
> --
> Thanks in Advance,
> -Mani.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xen-devel mailing list
> Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
>
>

Re: Xen Management APIs for backup and recovery

[Manigandan]

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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@eu.citrix.com>wrote:

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



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Take Care,
-Mani.

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Re: Xen Management APIs for backup and recovery

[George Shuklin]

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...).


В Втр, 21/06/2011 в 15:56 +0530, Manigandan пишет:
> 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@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>         I think your best bet is to interface with xapi, which is
>         being run as
>         a separate project (though obviously tightly coupled).
>         xen-api@lists.xensource.com is the best place to find the
>         people you
>         want to talk to.
>         
>         Peace,
>          -George
>         
>         
>         On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Manigandan
>         <bmani27@gmail.com> wrote:
>         > Hello Everyone,
>         > I am from a backup software company and am looking into the
>         methods to
>         > backup the Xen vms. We have already solutions for Vmware and
>         HyperV. We are
>         > now concentrating on the Xen virtualization due to the
>         market gain that Xen
>         > is gettting. So wanted to know
>         > 1) If Xen has a management SDK/APIs that can be used to
>         manage the VMs
>         > remotely
>         > 2) If Xen has disk access APIs that can be used to
>         read/write Xen virtual
>         > disks.
>         >
>         > --
>         > Thanks in Advance,
>         > -Mani.
>         >
>         
>         > _______________________________________________
>         > Xen-devel mailing list
>         > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>         > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
>         >
>         >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Take Care,
> -Mani.
> 
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> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

Re: Xen Management APIs for backup and recovery

[Mike McClurg]

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On 21/06/11 11:26, Manigandan wrote:
> Thanks George...
>
> Folks at xen-api, can you help with the below question?
>
>     > Hello Everyone,
>     > I am from a backup software company and am looking into the
>     methods to
>     > backup the Xen vms. We have already solutions for Vmware and
>     HyperV. We are
>     > now concentrating on the Xen virtualization due to the market
>     gain that Xen
>     > is gettting. So wanted to know
>     > 1) If Xen has a management SDK/APIs that can be used to manage
>     the VMs
>     > remotely
>     > 2) If Xen has disk access APIs that can be used to read/write
>     Xen virtual
>     > disks.
>     >
>     > --
>     > Thanks in Advance,
>     > -Mani.
>     >
>

Here is a link to the Xen API documentation: 
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/5.6.0fp1/1.0/en_gb/api/ . It is a 
XML-RPC based API, so you can use whatever language you like to 
interface with it, though most people seem to prefer the Python bindings 
that ship with XCP and XenServer. And yes, the Xen API handles both (1) 
and (2).

Mike

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Re: Xen Management APIs for backup and recovery

[Manigandan]

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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@gmail.com>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...).
>
>
> В Втр, 21/06/2011 в 15:56 +0530, Manigandan пишет:
> > 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@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> >         I think your best bet is to interface with xapi, which is
> >         being run as
> >         a separate project (though obviously tightly coupled).
> >         xen-api@lists.xensource.com is the best place to find the
> >         people you
> >         want to talk to.
> >
> >         Peace,
> >          -George
> >
> >
> >         On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Manigandan
> >         <bmani27@gmail.com> wrote:
> >         > Hello Everyone,
> >         > I am from a backup software company and am looking into the
> >         methods to
> >         > backup the Xen vms. We have already solutions for Vmware and
> >         HyperV. We are
> >         > now concentrating on the Xen virtualization due to the
> >         market gain that Xen
> >         > is gettting. So wanted to know
> >         > 1) If Xen has a management SDK/APIs that can be used to
> >         manage the VMs
> >         > remotely
> >         > 2) If Xen has disk access APIs that can be used to
> >         read/write Xen virtual
> >         > disks.
> >         >
> >         > --
> >         > Thanks in Advance,
> >         > -Mani.
> >         >
> >
> >         > _______________________________________________
> >         > Xen-devel mailing list
> >         > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> >         > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
> >         >
> >         >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Take Care,
> > -Mani.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
>
>
>


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-Mani.

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