Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-12-14 Thread Nathan Johnson
> functionality exactly the way it was originally implemented and if >>>>> a user wished to change the functionality they could via a global config >>>>> variable. >>>>> >>>>> Your original spec for PR 2081 in confluence states that the PR

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-21 Thread Simon Weller
From: Tutkowski, Mike Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2018 8:40 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature Perhaps instead of renaming the setting, we can note in its description the hypervisors it currently pertains to. > On

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-19 Thread Tutkowski, Mike
he create template or download template features are used, use the > primary storage as the source. > > Kind regards, > Glen Baars > > -Original Message- > From: Will Stevens > Sent: Saturday, 19 May 2018 12:57 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: Snap

RE: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-19 Thread Glen Baars
@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature I think reverting the change in 4.11.1 is probably a good idea. *Will Stevens* Chief Technology Officer c 514.826.0190 <https://goo.gl/NYZ8KK> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 2:52 PM ilya musayev wrote: > Perhaps brin

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-18 Thread Will Stevens
which can result in the job timeout and the User may > > assume > > > > > that it is already Backed up based on its state, unless it is > > > documented. > > > > > > > > > > -Suresh > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 18, 201

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-18 Thread ilya musayev
the original PR was to optionally disable this > > > > functionality. > > > > > > > > We don't expose views of the backup state to our customers (we have > our > > > > own customer interfaces) and it's a large waste of space for us to be >

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-18 Thread Suresh Kumar Anaparti
> > > > From: Will Stevens > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2018 6:12 AM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature > > Just because it does not work for VMware should not a reason to rip out the > func

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-18 Thread Simon Weller
be > > backing up tons of VM images when we have a solid primary storage > > infrastructure that already has lots of resiliency. > > > > > > I guess we're going to have to revisit this again before we can consider > > rebasing on 4.11. > > > > ___

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-18 Thread Will Stevens
ons of VM images when we have a solid primary storage > > infrastructure that already has lots of resiliency. > > > > > > I guess we're going to have to revisit this again before we can consider > > rebasing on 4.11. > > > > _____

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-18 Thread Suresh Kumar Anaparti
up image was copied on demand to secondary. > > > > In an ideal world, secondary storage wouldn't even be involved in most of > > these options, instead using the native clone features of the underlying > > storage. > > > > > > - Si > > > > ___

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-17 Thread Simon Weller
; > - Si > > > From: Suresh Kumar Anaparti > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 1:37 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Cc: Nathan Johnson > Subject: Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature > > Hi Glen / Si, > > In PR# 1697, t

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-17 Thread Will Stevens
ouldn't even be involved in most of > > these options, instead using the native clone features of the underlying > > storage. > > > > > > - Si > > > > ________________ > > From: Suresh Kumar Anaparti > > Sent: Thursda

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-17 Thread Suresh Kumar Anaparti
; > > From: Suresh Kumar Anaparti > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 1:37 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Cc: Nathan Johnson > Subject: Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature > > Hi Glen / Si, > > In PR# 1697, the global setting *sna

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-17 Thread Simon Weller
1:37 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Cc: Nathan Johnson Subject: Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature Hi Glen / Si, In PR# 1697, the global setting *snapshot.backup.rightafter* if set to true, it'll be the default behaviour and snapshot is copied to the secondary storage. If set to fals

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-17 Thread Suresh Kumar Anaparti
Hi Glen / Si, In PR# 1697, the global setting *snapshot.backup.rightafter* if set to true, it'll be the default behaviour and snapshot is copied to the secondary storage. If set to false, then the snapshot state transitions are mocked and Snapshot would be in BackedUp state even though it is not r

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-17 Thread Simon Weller
Glen, This feature was implemented in 4.9 by my colleague Nathan Johnson. You enable it by changing the global setting snapshot.backup.rightafter to false. The PR is reference here: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1697 We have the exact same use case as you, as we also use Ceph.