Hi Devdeep, Can you please elaborate on the restrictions, if any on XenMotion implementation when a volume has snapshots?
Hari -----Original Message----- From: Devdeep Singh [mailto:devdeep.si...@citrix.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 4:44 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 I have created an initial draft of the FS here https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Enabling+Storage+XenMotion+for+XenServer. I'll keep updating it based on discussion and comments. Regards, Devdeep > -----Original Message----- > From: Devdeep Singh [mailto:devdeep.si...@citrix.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:10 PM > 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
