On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 04:45:23PM -0700, Min Chen wrote: > Hi All, > > Currently CloudStack does not offer a flexible pluggable framework > for users to easily integrate and configure any 3rd-party object > stores for such backup services as registering templates, taking > snapshots, etc. Along with Edison's recent refactored storage > subsystem 2.0 that mainly refactored current CloudStack primary > storage implementation, we are proposing to develop a storage > backup object store plugin framework to allow CloudStack to > systematically manage and configure various types of backup data > stores from different vendors, like NFS, S3, Swift, etc. With this > new plugin framework, we would like to achieve following > functionalities:
> 1. Support different object store providers in a uniform and > pluggable fashion. > 2. Enable region wide object backup using S3-like object store. > 3. Provide pluggable data motion strategies to handle data transfer > from one data store to another data store. > 4. Provide a scalable cache storage framework while moving data > between primary storage and backup storage for certain hypervisor > needs. > 5. Support flexible combinations of primary storage, secondary > storage and hypervisors, such as (NFS, NFS, Xen), (NF3, S3, Vmware), > (ISCSI, Swift, KVM), ?., etc. > The proposed ImageStore plugin framework architecture is detailed in > our FS here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Storage+Backup+Object+Store+Plugin+Framework. > The JIRA ticket to track this feature is: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1975. The work is > currently carried out in feature branch "object_store". > Please let me know your comments and suggestions. Perhaps it is too early to ask, will there be a reference implementation done for any object store solutions as part of the refactoring? -- Prasanna.,
