Managing virtual computing instances and physical servers
The present disclosure is related to managing virtual computing instances and physical servers. An example machine-readable medium may store instructions executable by a processing resource to cause a computer system to provide an application program interface (API) that provides a user with an ability to manage a virtual computing instance (VCI) deployed on a hypervisor and provisioned by a pool of physical computing resources and manage a physical server.
1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions executable by a processing resource to cause a computing system to at least:
transmit, via a host gateway, a first virtual computing instance (VCI) instruction to a VCI deployed on a hypervisor;
in response to a determination that the hypervisor is a third-party hypervisor, provide a translation layer between the VCI and the hypervisor; and
transmit, via the host gateway, a server instruction to a server, the server instruction translated from a second VCI instruction to manage the server.
2. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are executable by the processing resource to manage the server regardless of whether the server has an operating system installed thereon.
3. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are executable by the processing resource to provide the translation layer between the VCI and the hypervisor via an application programming interface (API).
4. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 3 , wherein the instructions further include instructions to provide the API to display information regarding management of the VCI and information regarding management of the server in a user interface.
5. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are executable by the processing resource to restart a different server on which the hypervisor is provisioned responsive to a determination that the VCI has failed.
6. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are executable by the processing resource to monitor the hypervisor by receiving a heartbeat.
7. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are executable by the processing resource to generate a unified set of permissions for managing the VCI and the server.
8. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are executable by the processing resource to provide a user interface in which a console associated with the server and a console associated with the VCI is displayed.
9. A system comprising:
a server;
a virtual computing instance (VCI) deployed on a hypervisor;
a host gateway to, in response to a determination that the hypervisor is a third-party hypervisor, provide a translation layer between the VCI and the hypervisor; and
a centralized virtual server application to transmit, via the host gateway:
a first VCI instruction to the VCI to manage the VCI; and
a server instruction to the server to manage the server, the server instruction translated from a second VCI instruction.
10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the centralized virtual server application is configured to present the server as a managed host to the VCI.
11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the centralized virtual server application is configured to manage the server via an intelligent platform management interface (IPMI).
12. The system of claim 9 , wherein the server has an operating system installed thereon that has crashed.
13. The system of claim 9 , wherein the centralized virtual server application includes:
first instructions executable to facilitate communication between the VCI and the centralized virtual server application in response to a first determination that the hypervisor is a first-party hypervisor; and
second instructions executable to facilitate communication between the VCI and the centralized virtual server application in response to a second determination that the hypervisor is a third-party hypervisor.
14. The system of claim 9 , wherein the centralized virtual server application is configured to restart the server in response to a determination that a management agent associated with the VCI has failed.
15. A method comprising:
transmitting, via a host gateway, a first VCI instruction to a virtual computing instance (VCI) deployed on a hypervisor;
in response to a determination that the hypervisor is a third-party hypervisor, providing a translation layer between the VCI and the hypervisor; and
transmitting, via the host gateway, a server instruction to a server, the server instruction translated from a second VCI instruction to manage the server.
16. The method of claim 15 , further including asserting a command via an intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) to restart the server in response to a determination that a second VCI running on the server has failed.
17. The method of claim 15 , further including asserting a command via an intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) to mount a media image to the server.
18. The method of claim 15 , further including displaying information regarding the VCI and the server concurrently via an application programming interface (API).
19. The method of claim 15 , further including displaying the server as a managed host via an application programming interface (API).
20. The method of claim 15 , further including managing the server including an operating system installed thereon that has crashed.