Re: [DISCUSS] CloudStack Storage Plugin for CloudByte's ElastiStor

2013-08-07 Thread Mike Tutkowski
Hi, You are definitely free to map one of your SAN volumes to many CloudStack volumes. I'm not sure how this would look code wise, but it should be doable with some changes to CloudStack. We encourage our customers to keep to smaller clusters (like four compute nodes per cluster) as a way of impr

Re: [DISCUSS] CloudStack Storage Plugin for CloudByte's ElastiStor

2013-08-07 Thread Amit Das
Hi Mike, I have gone through the mentioned jira as well the following article in dZone. http://architects.dzone.com/articles/cloudstack-storage It describes the problem & solution pretty well. However, do we have any alternatives w.r.t one-to-one mapping between a CS Volume & a SAN Volume ? Is t

Re: [DISCUSS] CloudStack Storage Plugin for CloudByte's ElastiStor

2013-08-07 Thread Mike Tutkowski
Hi Amit, As I mentioned on a different thread, I would recommend looking at the SolidFire plug-in. Also, John Burwell and I can work with you on changes in 4.3 in the storage framework that might impact your development. The SolidFire plug-in was designed to provide Min and Max IOPS guarantees t

[DISCUSS] CloudStack Storage Plugin for CloudByte's ElastiStor

2013-08-07 Thread Amit Das
I would like to implement a new storage plugin based on the recently refactored CloudStack(CS) storage code. This plugin will allow a CS Admin to interact with ElastiStor's APIs to provision and manage QoS-aware storage volumes for VMs. CloudByte's ElastiStor is a full-featured software-defined s