Description

This PR introduces the initial implementation of Veeam integration support for KVM in CloudStack by adding a UHAPI-compatible server and image server components.

Veeam Backup & Replication interacts with virtualization platforms using its Universal Hypervisor API (UHAPI). To enable backup and restore workflows for CloudStack-managed KVM environments, this change introduces a UHAPI server that exposes CloudStack resources through a UHAPI-compatible interface.

In addition to the control plane APIs, an image server component is introduced to handle the data transfer operations required during backup and restore workflows.

Architecture

The integration consists of two main components:

1. UHAPI Server (Control Plane) named CloudStack Veeam Control Service

A lightweight UHAPI server runs inside the CloudStack management server and exposes endpoints under:

/ovirt-engine/api

This server provides inventory discovery APIs required by Veeam and translates CloudStack resources into the structures expected by UHAPI.

The server:

• exposes infrastructure inventory
• handles authentication and session tokens
• maps CloudStack resources to UHAPI-compatible representations

2. Image Server (Data Plane) named CloudStack Image Service

A separate image server component is introduced to handle backup and restore data transfer operations.

This component:

• serves disk image data during backup
• receives image data during restore operations
• exposes endpoints used by Veeam worker components
• integrates with CloudStack storage to read and write VM disk data

The separation between both these components server ensures that:

• metadata APIs and control operations remain lightweight
• bulk image transfer operations are handled independently

Co-authored by @abh1sar @weizhouapache

Types of changes

• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• Enhancement (improves an existing feature and functionality)
• Cleanup (Code refactoring and cleanup, that may add test cases)
• Build/CI
• Test (unit or integration test code)

Feature/Enhancement Scale or Bug Severity

Feature/Enhancement Scale

• Major
• Minor

Bug Severity

• BLOCKER
• Critical
• Major
• Minor
• Trivial

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