Re: [openstack-dev] Cinder as generic volume manager

2016-05-10 Thread Ivan Kolodyazhny
Hi Team, I'd get several requests about this features in IRC last weeks. I didn't stop working on it but any help is welcome:). Here is the list of proposed patched that are related to 'Use Cinder without Nova' feature: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/use-cinder-without-nova Regards, Ivan Kolod

Re: [openstack-dev] Cinder as generic volume manager

2016-01-11 Thread Ivan Kolodyazhny
Hi Team, Let me introduce updates related to use-cinder-without-nova blueprint [1]. According to spec [2] we've introduced new python-brick-cinderclient-ext project [3]. It's an official Cinder project and implemented as an extension to python-cinderclient. For now, it supports only 'get-connecto

Re: [openstack-dev] Cinder as generic volume manager

2015-09-16 Thread Ivan Kolodyazhny
Jan, all, I've started a work on this task to complete it in Mitaka. Here is a very draft spec [1] and PoC [2]. [1] https://review.openstack.org/224124 [2] https://review.openstack.org/223851 Regards, Ivan Kolodyazhny, Web Developer, http://blog.e0ne.info/, http://notacash.com/, http://kharkivpy

Re: [openstack-dev] Cinder as generic volume manager

2015-07-14 Thread Jan Safranek
On 07/10/2015 12:19 AM, Walter A. Boring IV wrote: > On 07/09/2015 12:21 PM, Tomoki Sekiyama wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Just FYI, here is a sample script I'm using for testing os-brick which >> attaches/detaches the cinder volume to the host using cinderclient and >> os-brick: >> >> https://gist.githu

Re: [openstack-dev] Cinder as generic volume manager

2015-07-09 Thread Walter A. Boring IV
On 07/09/2015 12:21 PM, Tomoki Sekiyama wrote: Hi all, Just FYI, here is a sample script I'm using for testing os-brick which attaches/detaches the cinder volume to the host using cinderclient and os-brick: https://gist.github.com/tsekiyama/ee56cc0a953368a179f9 "python attach.py " will attach

Re: [openstack-dev] Cinder as generic volume manager

2015-07-09 Thread Tomoki Sekiyama
Hi all, Just FYI, here is a sample script I'm using for testing os-brick which attaches/detaches the cinder volume to the host using cinderclient and os-brick: https://gist.github.com/tsekiyama/ee56cc0a953368a179f9 "python attach.py " will attach the volume to the executed host and shows a volum

Re: [openstack-dev] Cinder as generic volume manager

2015-07-09 Thread Walter A. Boring IV
I missed this whole thread due to my mail filtering. Sorry about that. Anyway, Ivan and I have an open Blueprint here: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/use-cinder-without-nova That starts the discussion of adding the end to end ability of attaching a Cinder volume to a host using

Re: [openstack-dev] Cinder as generic volume manager

2015-07-07 Thread Jan Safranek
On 07/07/2015 04:08 PM, Duncan Thomas wrote: > This is entirely possible, and is one of the aims of cinder-agent, > though that has somewhat stalled due to Ironic having different > design goals. > > You should be able to write a simple client that calls reserve, > initialize_connection and pars

Re: [openstack-dev] Cinder as generic volume manager

2015-07-07 Thread Duncan Thomas
This is entirely possible, and is one of the aims of cinder-agent, though that has somewhat stalled due to Ironic having different design goals. You should be able to write a simple client that calls reserve, initialize_connection and parses the result for taget info - if you want it to work with

[openstack-dev] Cinder as generic volume manager

2015-07-07 Thread Jan Safranek
Hello, I'd like to (mis-)use Cinder outside of OpenStack, i.e. without Nova. I can easily create/manage volumes themselves, Cinder API is pretty friendly here. Now, how can I attach a volume somewhere? Something like 'nova volume-attach ', but without Nova and with (=anything) instead of (=vir