I explicitly linked the Design Spec in the Jira ticket because it was not clear in the 'mention' section because it shows as a page 'you do not have permission to'.
*Will STEVENS* Lead Developer *CloudOps* *| *Cloud Solutions Experts 420 rue Guy *|* Montreal *|* Quebec *|* H3J 1S6 w cloudops.com *|* tw @CloudOps_ On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Syed Ahmed <sah...@cloudops.com> wrote: > > Design Spec: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/StorageSnapshot++API > > Jira Ticket > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9278 > > > Hi All, > > We plan to propose a new set of APIs to do snapshots on managed storage > backends like SolidFire. Snapshots on current managed storage stay on the > device which is contrary to what CloudStack calls snpshots. But taking > snapshots > on storage and keeping it there has its own advantages and we would > ideally like > to have both ways of doing snapshots. This proposal adds 4 new APIs to > create snapshots on backend storage. > > What do you guys think of this feature? I would love to have some > feedback. I am working on making the design spec more concrete but wanted > to have > a high level feedback first before starting to work on it. > > Thanks, > -Syed > >
