Hi, I was referring to the cloudstack documentation (working with storage -> best practices for primary storage). According to this topic dynamic primary storage is a model where a ccp disk has a one to one matching to a volume in the primary storage.
Here is is the abstract from the documentation: "Dynamic: This is a newer way for CloudStack to manage storage. In this model, a storage system (rather than a preallocated amount of storage) is given to CloudStack. CloudStack, working in concert with a storage plug-in, dynamically creates volumes on the storage system and each volume on the storage system maps to a single CloudStack volume. This is highly useful for features such as storage Quality of Service. Currently this feature is supported for data disks (Disk Offerings).” Regards Christian > On 08 Dec 2015, at 14:23, Simon Weller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Christian, > > So when you say dynamic storage, are you just referring to storage that can > grow as your requirements change? > > If so, there are many options. I can't speak for VMware, but I can for KVM: > > NFS > Ceph (using RBD) > Solidfire > Nexenta > Cloudbyte > Various SANs via either a mount point or CLVM clustering > > - Si > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 3:42 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Dynamic Primary Storage for VMware and KVM > > Hi all, > > I searched through the documentation to find some more information about how > to provide dynamic primary storage for VMware vspehere 5.5 and KVM, but > didn’t found a good hint. > > Can somebody tell me how I can setup dynamic primary storage for vmware and > kvm and what kind of storage system is needed? > If I understood it right SolidFire is a good candidate for it, but are there > any other storage systems which do support this feature or is it even > possible to use it with any kind of nfs storage? > > Thanks in advance. > > Kind Regards > Christian
