Very useful info, Edison - thanks!! By the way, can you confirm for me that this storage plug-in framework is expected to work for all hypervisors supported by CS in 4.2.
Thanks again! On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Vladimir Popovski < vladi...@zadarastorage.com> wrote: > Hi Edison, > > > > Thank you for the reply. We will check it out. > > > > Regards, > > -Vladimir > > > > > > *From:* Edison Su [mailto:edison...@citrix.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, March 21, 2013 11:36 AM > *To:* 'Vladimir Popovski'; cloudstack > *Cc:* mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > *Subject:* RE: Storage Subsystem 2.0 plugin docs > > > > > > > > *From:* Vladimir Popovski > [mailto:vladi...@zadarastorage.com<vladi...@zadarastorage.com>] > > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 20, 2013 9:05 AM > *To:* cloudstack > *Cc:* mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com; Edison Su > *Subject:* Storage Subsystem 2.0 plugin docs > > > > Hi All, > > > > Thank you for a great work on CloudStack! We are interested in integrating > CS with our storage system and started to look at your documentation and > storage-related code. I see that Mike from SolidFire started working on > something similar some time ago and Edison even created an empty plugin for > it (in Nov’12?). > > > > We have couple of questions related to that: > > - Is there any documentation about plugins (except of > https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/storage-subsystem-20.html) > > [Edison] There are not much docs about the plugins other than the above > link. See below. > > - Are there any exemplary plugins for primary & secondary > datastores? Was the SolidFire plugin ever finished? > > [Edison] yesterday, I checked in some code to separate existing cloudstack > storage code into a standalone maven project, called: > cloud-plugin-storage-volume-default, which can give you an example how a > storage plugin will look like. > > - How to activate a new plugin and use it (at least through > CLIs/APIs) > > [Edison] First, put a bean configuration in client/tomcatconf/ > componentContext.xml.in for your plugin provider class, like: > > <bean id="ClassicalPrimaryDataStoreProvider" > class="org.apache.cloudstack.storage.datastore.provider.CloudStackPrimaryDataStoreProviderImpl"> > > </bean> > > Second, when adding a data store into cloudstack, with an extra parameter > in createstoragepoolcmd: provider=your-provider-name, > liststorageproviderscmd can list all the registered providers in mgt server. > > > > > > - How to integrate it with the UI > > There is no UI part of example code for storage yet, the idea is to use > pluggable UI( > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/UI+Plugin+Tutorial), > for each storage provider may need a separate UI to add a storage. For > example, in adding primary storage ui, there will be a drop down list, show > all the registered providers, if user selects one of the drop down list, > then UI will pop up a diagram, based on providers’ pluggable ui, then user > can type whatever information needed for a storage(e.g. nfs server, nfs > path, if its nfs). At the end, UI will call createstoragepoolcmd to > register a storage into cloudstack. > > > > Thanks, > > -Vladimir > > > > > > ------- > > Vladimir Popovski > > VP, Cloud Operations > > Zadara Storage > (949) 677-2095 > > vladi...@zadarastorage.com > > www.zadarastorage.com > > > > > -- *Mike Tutkowski* *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com o: 303.746.7302 Advancing the way the world uses the cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> *™*
