Can we not provide the flexibility while adding a host. So when the admin adds a host he has the provision of enabling/disabling local storage for that host. I think that is the lowest level of granularity that we can provide to the admin ? Another question - With this feature would upload volume functionality work for local storage as well ? Also if the end user chooses HA service offering and local storage disk offering would that deployment go through ?
Thanks, -Nitin -----Original Message----- From: Koushik Das [mailto:koushik....@citrix.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 10:32 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: Local storage support for data volumes I think it is always better to give control to the administrator on whether to enable/disable local storage in a cluster/zone level. If local storage pool is available by default then it may be difficult to manage all of them in case of a cluster with large number of hosts. Also in some cases it may be required not to allow local volume creation on a selected set of hosts (say in a particular cluster). -Koushik -----Original Message----- From: Edison Su [mailto:edison...@citrix.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 10:08 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: Local storage support for data volumes > -----Original Message----- > From: Koushik Das [mailto:koushik....@citrix.com] > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 4:04 AM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: Local storage support for data volumes > > Yes the idea is to have local storage setting at zone level. Currently > it is a global setting (use.local.storage). How about get rid of use.local.storage at all? Local storage as a storage pool resource, by default, is always available on each hypervisor host. CloudStack mgt server should not hide the existing available resource. To use local storage or not, that all depends on disk/service offering. > > -Koushik > > -----Original Message----- > From: Prasanna Santhanam [mailto:prasanna.santha...@citrix.com] > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 4:13 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Local storage support for data volumes > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 06:23:44AM -0400, Koushik Das wrote: > > Currently in CS only root volume can be created on local storage. > > This feature is to support creation of data volumes on local storage. > > Please refer to [1] for the details. There is already a bug > > CS-14277 created for this. Reviews/comments? > > > > Thanks, > > Koushik > > > > [1] > > > http://wiki.cloudstack.org/display/RelOps/Local+storage+for+data+volum > > es > > First question from a skim of the spec: > > Why is the `data_center` table getting a new column about local storage? > Seems out of place for it to be there. Can this not be a global > setting/ Or are you looking to control this setting per data center? > > > -- > Prasanna.,
