OK, thanks, Marcus I am currently looking through some of the classes you pointed out last week or so.
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com>wrote: > Yes, my guess is that you will need the iscsi initiator utilities > installed. There should be standard packages for any distro. Then you'd > call an agent storage adaptor to do the initiator login. See the info I > sent previously about LibvirtStorageAdaptor.java and libvirt iscsi storage > type to see if that fits your need. > On Sep 13, 2013 4:55 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> As you may remember, during the 4.2 release I developed a SolidFire >> (storage) plug-in for CloudStack. >> >> This plug-in was invoked by the storage framework at the necessary times >> so that I could dynamically create and delete volumes on the SolidFire SAN >> (among other activities). >> >> This is necessary so I can establish a 1:1 mapping between a CloudStack >> volume and a SolidFire volume for QoS. >> >> In the past, CloudStack always expected the admin to create large volumes >> ahead of time and those volumes would likely house many root and data disks >> (which is not QoS friendly). >> >> To make this 1:1 mapping scheme work, I needed to modify logic in the >> XenServer and VMware plug-ins so they could create/delete storage >> repositories/datastores as needed. >> >> For 4.3 I want to make this happen with KVM. >> >> I'm coming up to speed with how this might work on KVM, but I'm still >> pretty new to KVM. >> >> Does anyone familiar with KVM know how I will need to interact with the >> iSCSI target? For example, will I have to expect Open iSCSI will be >> installed on the KVM host and use it for this to work? >> >> Thanks for any suggestions, >> Mike >> >> -- >> *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> >> *™* >> > -- *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> *™*
