Authors:

Moti Asayag

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Detailed Reporting Vnic Information

Reporting vNIC information reported by Guest Agent Detailed Design

Summary

The Guest Agent reports the vNic details:

IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6).
vNic internal name

Reporting vNIC implementation reported by Guest Agent Feature Page

Owner

Name: Moti Asayag
Email: masayag@redhat.com

Current status

Target Release: 3.2
Status: Design
Last updated date: Nov 12 2012

Detailed Description

The internal vNic implementation details are reported by VDSM by verbs getVmStats and getAllVmStats.

netIfaces = [
    {
        'name': 'eth8',
        'inet6': ['fe80::21a:4aff:fe16:1ac'],
        'inet': ['10.35.17.36'],
        'hw': '00:1a:4a:16:01:ac'
    },
    {
        'name': 'eth9',
        'inet6': ['fe80::21a:4aff:fe16:160','fe80::21a:4aff:fe16:161'],
        'inet': ['10.35.1.254'],
        'hw': '00:1a:4a:16:01:60'
    },
    {
        'name': 'eth7',
        'inet6': ['fe80::21a:4aff:fe16:1af'],
        'inet': ['10.35.18.69'],
        'hw': '00:1a:4a:16:01:af'
    }
]

The vNic device data from the guest contains interface name, IPv4 addresses, IPv6 addresses and MAC Address.

Engine

VM_GUEST_AGENT_INTERFACES a new satellite table of vm, contains the vNic configuration reported by the guest agent

Column Name	Column Type	Null? / Default	Definition
vm_id	UUID	not null	The VM’s ID, foreign key to vm_static.vm_guid
interface_name	VARCHAR(50)	null	The vNic’s name within the VM
mac_address	VARCHAR(59)	null	The vNic’s MAC address within the VM
ipv4_addresses	text	null	The vNic’s IPv4 addresses
ipv6_addresses	text	null	The vNic’s IPv6 addresses

The IP addresses columns might contain multiple addresses per vNic and will be stored concatenated by comma. The table will be updated only when a change is detected by the reported data from VDSM.

VmGuestAgentInterface a new class for representing the data reported by the guest agent:

Guid vmId   // VM's ID
String name // the internal nic's name
String macAddress // the internal nic's macAddress
List<String> ipv4Addresses // the vNic's IPv4 addresses
List<String> ipv6Addresses // the vNic's IPv6 addresses

VmGuestAgentInterfaceDao new DAO will serve as the interface of the VmGuestAgentInterface entity database related actions. VmGuestAgentInterface is stored to the database only as part of refresh VMs.

Engine Flows

GetVmGuestAgentInterfacesForVmQuery - A query to return the vNic’s data for a specific vm by the VM’s ID.

VdsUpdateRunTimeInfo.refreshVms - will refresh the vnic’s data (as an optimization only if the data was changed). Update should be performed as a mass-operation.

Populating the VMs IP addresses and VM guest agent interfaces is done by getVmStats and getAllVmStats
- When the netIfaces element is reported by VDSM, it will be used both for populating the VM’s IP addresses list on vm_dynamic(vm_ip) as well as the vm guest agent interfaces.
- If netIfaces is not reported by VDSM (earlier VDSM versions), the VM’s IP addresses list will be populate by guestIPs as done today.

Rest API

Populating the VM’s network_devices element under guest_info is implemented by mechanism introduced by “All-Content Header” patch Rest API will invoke GetVmGuestAgentInterfacesForVmQuery from the populate method of VM Resource BackendVmResource in order to populate the additional information of guest_info. A mapper should be created as well between VmGuestAgentInterface to the equivalent Rest API entity.

On BackendVmNicResource, the new properties of the HostNic (interface_name, ipv4 and ipv6) will be populated by using same query to get relevant data if exists.

UI

Changes should be made for both Admin-Portal and User-Portal. The client will invoke GetVmGuestAgentInterfacesForVmQuery for getting the information and will map them on client side by MAC address for matching the management vNic to the VM interface reported by the guest agent and populating the information on the VM Interface sub-tab.

VDSM API

No changes for VDSM API.

Upgrade DB

Add the new table VM_GUEST_AGENT_INTERFACES and related stored-procedure for save/update/delete/get.