Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-26 Thread Mike Tutkowski
emplate on the same > SR. > >>> >>>> >>>>> >>> This > >>> >>>> >>>>> >>> will never > >>> >>>> >>>>> >>> be the case for managed storag

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-26 Thread Marcus Sorensen
t; multiple >>> >>>> >>>>> >>> root >>> >>>> >>>>> >>> disks. >>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>>> >>> By the way, I just wa

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-26 Thread Mike Tutkowski
t;>> >>>>> >>> how >> >>>> >>>>> >>> OpenStack >> >>>> >>>>> >>> handles storage by default. >> >>>> >>>>> >

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-26 Thread Mike Tutkowski
;>> >>> By the way, I am currently focused on XenServer, but also > plan > >>>> >>>>> >>> to > >>>> >>>>> >>> implement > >>>> >>>>>

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-26 Thread Marcus Sorensen
gt; >>>>> >>> >>>> >>>>> >>> * It consumes as much of the SR as it can unless you you want >>>> >>>>> >>> extra >>>> >>>>> >>> space >>>> >>>>&

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-26 Thread Marcus Sorensen
gt;> >>>>> >>> to >>>> >>>>> >>> implement >>>> >>>>> >>> support for this on KVM and ESX (although those may be outside >>>> >>>>> >>> of >>>>

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-26 Thread Marcus Sorensen
ots. >>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>>> >>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Marcus Sorensen >>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>>> >>> wrote: >>&g

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-26 Thread Mike Tutkowski
; copy template from secondary storage directly onto root disk >>> every >>> >>>>> >>>> time, and copyPhysicalDisk really does nothing. If you can >>> clone, >>> >>>>> >>>> then >>> >>>>&

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-26 Thread Mike Tutkowski
ver now, and if so put the >> >>>>> >>>> createDiskFromTemplate >> >>>>> >>>> logic there, but you still probably need copyPhysicalDisk to do >> >>>>> >>>> its >> &g

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-25 Thread Marcus Sorensen
now, but >>>> > that call doesn't have to do any work on the agent-side, really. >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Mike Tutkowski >>>> > wrote: >>>> >> Just wanted to throw this

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-25 Thread Mike Tutkowski
> it will be passed to createDiskFromTemplate in your storage adaptor >>> >> > (for KVM), where you can call a clone of that and return it as the >>> >> > root volume . There was once going to be template clone capabilities >>> >> > in the st

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-25 Thread Mike Tutkowski
o or so), so we still >> have >> >> > to call clone to our storage server from the agent side as of now, >> but >> >> > that call doesn't have to do any work on the agent-side, really. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> &g

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-25 Thread Mike Tutkowski
ing we're dealing with templates here and not > an > >> >> ISO), it is possible I may be able to circumvent a new table (or any > >> >> existing table like template_spool_ref) entirely for managed storage. > >> >> > >> >> The purpo

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-25 Thread Marcus Sorensen
7;re dealing with templates here and not an >>> >> ISO), it is possible I may be able to circumvent a new table (or any >>> >> existing table like template_spool_ref) entirely for managed storage. >>> >> >>> >> The purpose of a

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-25 Thread Marcus Sorensen
a new table (or any >> >> existing table like template_spool_ref) entirely for managed storage. >> >> >> >> The purpose of a table like template_spool_ref appears to be mainly to >> >> make >> >> sure we're not downloading the sample

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-25 Thread Mike Tutkowski
a table like template_spool_ref appears to be mainly to >> make >> >> sure we're not downloading the sample template to an SR multiple times >> (and >> >> this doesn't apply in the case of managed storage since each root >> volume >> >&

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-25 Thread Mike Tutkowski
ks! > >> > >> > >> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Mike Tutkowski > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi Edison and Marcus (and anyone else this may be of interest to), > >>> > >>> So, as of 4.3 I have added support for data disk

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-25 Thread Marcus Sorensen
gt;> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Edison and Marcus (and anyone else this may be of interest to), >>> >>> So, as of 4.3 I have added support for data disks for managed storage for >>> XenServer, VMware, and KVM (a 1:1 mapping between a CloudStack volume and a &

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-25 Thread Marcus Sorensen
tween a CloudStack volume and a >> volume on a storage system). One of the most useful abilities this enables >> is support for guaranteed storage quality of service in CloudStack. >> >> One of the areas I'm working on for CS 4.4 is root-disk support for >> managed

Re: Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-24 Thread Mike Tutkowski
disks for managed storage for > XenServer, VMware, and KVM (a 1:1 mapping between a CloudStack volume and a > volume on a storage system). One of the most useful abilities this enables > is support for guaranteed storage quality of service in CloudStack. > > One of the areas I'm workin

Root-disk support for managed storage

2014-01-24 Thread Mike Tutkowski
support for guaranteed storage quality of service in CloudStack. One of the areas I'm working on for CS 4.4 is root-disk support for managed storage (both with templates and ISOs). I'd like to get your opinion about something. I noticed when we download a template to a XenServer SR that w