Good suggestion David. The only downside about this is since the config is at multiple level the user hopefully shouldn't get confused figuring out the inheritance.
-Koushik -----Original Message----- From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 9:52 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Local storage support for data volumes On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Koushik Das <koushik....@citrix.com> wrote: > Edison, > Enabling/disabling local storage at host level is a good option for a small > deployment where the number of host is < 20-30. For a large deployment > configuring this for each host is not a very clean experience from the admin > perspective. Hence the idea of doing it at some grouping level > (cluster/pod/zone). > > Nitin, > When local storage is enabled (say at cluster level), then on any new host > addition the local storage for it also gets added. For existing hosts local > storage shows up on MS restart. Also if disabled already created storage > pools will still remain, only new storage pools won't get added. > > Maybe some level of inheritance? Perhaps the setting is at the host level, but you can turn it on/off at the cluster/pod/zone and it inherits to all hosts within that given level. --David
