esx: Restrict vpx:// to handle a single host in a vCenter

Now a vpx:// connection has an explicitly specified host. This
allows to enabled several functions for a vpx:// connection
again, like host UUID, hostname, general node info, max vCPU
count, free memory, migration and defining new domains.

Lookup datacenter, compute resource, resource pool and host
system once and cache them. This simplifies the rest of the
code and reduces overall HTTP(S) traffic a bit.

esx:// and vpx:// can be mixed freely for a migration.

Ensure that migration source and destination refer to the
same vCenter. Also directly encode the resource pool and
host system object IDs into the migration URI in the prepare
function. Then directly build managed object references in
the perform function instead of re-looking up already known
information.

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/docs/drvesx.html.in b/docs/drvesx.html.in
index 4ae7a5180..dfc91bb6c 100644
--- a/docs/drvesx.html.in
+++ b/docs/drvesx.html.in
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
         Some example remote connection URIs for the driver are:
     </p>
 <pre>
-vpx://example-vcenter.com              (VPX over HTTPS)
+vpx://example-vcenter.com/dc1/srv1     (VPX over HTTPS, select ESX server 'srv1' in datacenter 'dc1')
 esx://example-esx.com                  (ESX over HTTPS)
 gsx://example-gsx.com                  (GSX over HTTPS)
 esx://example-esx.com/?transport=http  (ESX over HTTP)
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ esx://example-esx.com/?no_verify=1     (ESX over HTTPS, but doesn't verify the s
         URIs have this general form (<code>[...]</code> marks an optional part).
     </p>
 <pre>
-type://[username@]hostname[:port]/[?extraparameters]
+type://[username@]hostname[:port]/[datacenter[/cluster]/server][?extraparameters]
 </pre>
     <p>
         The <code>type://</code> is either <code>esx://</code> or
@@ -58,6 +58,20 @@ type://[username@]hostname[:port]/[?extraparameters]
         is 443, for <code>gsx://</code> it is 8333.
         If the port parameter is given, it overrides the default port.
     </p>
+    <p>
+        A <code>vpx://</code> connection is currently restricted to a single
+        ESX server. This might be relaxed in the future. The path part of the
+        URI is used to specify the datacenter and the ESX server in it. If the
+        ESX server is part of a cluster then the cluster has to be specified too.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+        An example: ESX server <code>example-esx.com</code> is managed by
+        vCenter <code>example-vcenter.com</code> and part of cluster
+        <code>cluster1</code>. This cluster is part of datacenter <code>dc1</code>.
+    </p>
+<pre>
+vpx://example-vcenter.com/dc1/cluster1/example-esx.com
+</pre>
 
 
     <h4>Extra parameters</h4>
@@ -588,7 +602,7 @@ ethernet0.address = "00:50:56:25:48:C7"
 esx://example.com/?vcenter=example-vcenter.com
 </pre>
     <p>
-        Here an example how to migrate the domain <code>Fedora11</code> from
+        Here's an example how to migrate the domain <code>Fedora11</code> from
         ESX server <code>example-src.com</code> to ESX server
         <code>example-dst.com</code> implicitly involving vCenter
         <code>example-vcenter.com</code> using <code>virsh</code>.
@@ -604,6 +618,19 @@ Enter root password for example-dst.com:
 Enter username for example-vcenter.com [administrator]:
 Enter administrator password for example-vcenter.com:
 </pre>
+    <p>
+        <span class="since">Since 0.8.3</span> you can directly connect to a vCenter.
+        This simplifies migration a bit. Here's the same migration as above but
+        using <code>vpx://</code> connections and assuming both ESX server are in
+        datacenter <code>dc1</code> and aren't part of a cluster.
+    </p>
+<pre>
+$ virsh -c vpx://example-vcenter.com/dc1/example-src.com migrate Fedora11 vpx://example-vcenter.com/dc1/example-dst.com
+Enter username for example-vcenter.com [administrator]:
+Enter administrator password for example-vcenter.com:
+Enter username for example-vcenter.com [administrator]:
+Enter administrator password for example-vcenter.com:
+</pre>
 
 
     <h2><a name="scheduler">Scheduler configuration</a></h2>