See my another reply. The storage network(I admit it's a bad term for this feature) is indeed for secondary storage now.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Weiran Xia [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 4:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Storage Networks XenServer > > here i got a similar question, there seems be some confusion in terminology. > > From > http://wiki.cloudstack.org/display/DesignDocs/Storage+network+in+Acton > it says a storage network is for speeding up template/snapshot copying > process, and indeed during the zone creation process there is a step of > configuring this network(ip range,gateway..). when the SSVM is up and > running it gets 4 NICs, one of them is dedicated for this purpose. > > But where is the storage network for primary storage? is this storage > network only defined by label in step two (drag and drop) of zone creation? > is there any relationship between two 'storage networks'? > > thanks very much if someone can clarify the storage nework in 3.0.x > > Regards > Mice
