Mike Tutkowski created CLOUDSTACK-4810:
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             Summary: Enable hypervisor snapshots for CloudStack-managed 
storage (for XenServer and VMware)
                 Key: CLOUDSTACK-4810
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-4810
             Project: CloudStack
          Issue Type: Bug
      Security Level: Public (Anyone can view this level - this is the default.)
    Affects Versions: 4.2.0
         Environment: Ubuntu 12.04
            Reporter: Mike Tutkowski
            Assignee: Mike Tutkowski
             Fix For: Future


CloudStack-managed storage was introduced into CloudStack with the new storage 
framework in 4.2.

This allows CloudStack to create and delete storage repositories and datastores 
as needed.

For 4.2 the VDI inside of an SR takes up almost as much space as is available 
in the SR (so there is a one-to-one mapping between an SR and a VDI). This is 
the same idea for datastores and VMDKs.

The SR or datastore should be sized larger than its VDI or VMDK so there is 
space available for hypervisor snapshots that get stored on the same SR or 
datastore.

How much larger can be determined by a cluster-level setting.

For example, if you want a 10 GB CloudStack volume, the storage plug-in in 
question can create, say, a 20 GB volume on its SAN. 10 GB to be used for the 
CloudStack volume and an additional 10 GB for hypervisor snapshots.



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