+1 Would this be available for system vms (ssvm, cpvm and rvm ) as well ?
Thanks, -Nitin On 19-Dec-2012, at 2:33 PM, Devdeep Singh wrote: > Hi Alex, > > I was planning to cover the following scenarios: > 1. Live migrate a VM with disks from Host A to Host B within the same > cluster. This currently works with shared storage. I was thinking of > extending it to support local storage too. > 2. Live migrate a VM from Host A to Host B across cluster. VM's disks also > move from one storage repository to another. > 3. Live migrate a VM's disks from one storage repository to another, but VM > stays in the same host. I didn't make it clear in my earlier mail, sorry > about that. Should it be a separate jira ticket? > > For each of them the disk offerings for each disk should be honored. That is, > if a disk is using shared storage it should be moved to a shared SR. Same > applies to disks using local storage too. > > Regards, > Devdeep > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alex Huang [mailto:alex.hu...@citrix.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:56 AM >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 >> >> Devdeep, >> >> It sounds like from this that all you're doing is the ability to live >> migrate vms >> from one cluster to another cluster. >> >> Is there anything on storage migration itself? >> >> --Alex >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Devdeep Singh [mailto:devdeep.si...@citrix.com] >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:40 AM >>> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >>> Subject: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> XenServer introduced support for Storage XenMotion in the latest >>> version (6.1). Storage XenMotion allows VMs to be moved from one host >>> to another, where the VMs are not located on storage shared between >>> the two hosts. It provides the option to live migrate a VM's disks >>> along with the VM itself. It is now possible to migrate a VM from one >>> resource pool to another, or to migrate a VM whose disks are on local >>> storage, or even to migrate a VM's disks from one storage repository to >> another, all while the VM is running. >>> More information on Storage XenMotion can be found at [1]. >>> >>> I have filed a jira request [2] to track this feature. I plan to >>> extend the migrate vm cloudstack api call to allow migration of >>> instances across clusters. Do let me know your comments. >>> >>> [1] http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/08/24/storage_xenmotion/ >>> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-659 >>> >>> Regards, >>> Devdeep
