Edison, Thanks for your clarification. It's very clear now. Cloudstack does not care about how hypervisor access PS, admin can configure a separate NIC on hypervisors only for primary storage access if necessary.
Regards Mice -----Original Message----- From: Edison Su [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 8:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Regarding storage network > -----Original Message----- > From: Mice Xia [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 4:52 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Regarding storage network > > > Hi, All > > This has been discussed in a previous thread but i did not get the > conclusion so here i started a new one. > > In CS 2.2.y,for xenserver there is a storage network dedicated for > traffic between hypervisor and primary storage, users can separate this > traffic from others simply by assigning a label on specific xenserver > interface and matching it in global configuration > 'xen.storage.network.device'. This network is not configured and used by CloudStack, even you can add xen.storage.network.device in cloudstack mgt server. The storage network between hypervisor and primary storage, or secondary storage is configured by admin himself, the hypervisor or cloudstack doesn't care about it much, as hypervisor accesses storage through Layer 3. As long as the routing table(storage pool ip address and the dedicated storage network nic) on hypervisor host is configured correctly, storage network works well automatically. > > In CS 3.x, the term 'storage network' seems to describe traffic between > primary storage and secondary storage[1], which is completely different > from that in 2.2.y. The storage network added in CS 3.x, is for secondary storage. The typical usage case is for VMware, copying snapshot from primary storage to secondary storage(and vice versa) is operated inside SSVM. Having a separate network to access secondary storage will improve the process. For xenserver and KVM, it only used when downloading templates/ISO, copying volumes between zone, etc, that all the operations conducted inside SSVM. > > Can I jump to a conclusion that, the old storage network has been > eliminated and it would use the same network as management network use, > and from now on storage network always refer to [1] ? The old storage network still there, but you can't configure and don't need to configure in cloudstack. > > > [1] > http://wiki.cloudstack.org/display/DesignDocs/Storage+network+in+Acton > > > Regards > Mice
