Using HttpNfcLease to transfer vmdk files.
The current VMware driver supported only "sparse" and "preallocated"
vmware_disktype property set in a "vmdk" glance image. Both of these were just
copied over as *-flat.vmdk files into the vmfs or nfs file system of the
underlying datastore. This was used during copy_image_to_volume() api.
Unfortunately for a vsan datastore this work flow breaks since there is no
access to the flat vmdk file in the underlying datastore.
This patch introduces a new vmware_disktype for a glance image called
"streamOptimized". This is a format generated when a VM/vApp is exported using
the HttpNfc APIs. AS the name suggests this is a highly optimized format for
streaming in chunks and thus would result in much faster upload / download
speeds. The driver's copy_volume_to_image() implementation now always uploads
the vmdk contents using HttpNfc api so that the glance image ends up in the
"streamOptimized" disk type. Also the driver's copy_image_to_volume()
implementation now understands a "streamOptmized" disk type and uses HttpNfc to
import that vmdk into a backing VM.
Note that the same "streamOptmized" glance image format will also be supported
by VMware nova driver. This change is in a different patch -
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/53976/
Patch Set 4: Removing changes to requirements.txt that got in by mistake.
Patch Set 5: Fixing a small bug around progress updates.
Patch Set 6: Addressing comments from Avishay.
Fixes bug:
1229998
Change-Id: I6b55945cb61efded826e0bcf7e2a678ebbbbd9d3