So essentially, CS is categorizing managed storage as something it needs to make a series of API calls etc to in order to set up and configure it? Whereas unmanaged is something it expects you to provide settings for when adding, and expects you to have set it up yourself prior to adding?
*Jeff Hair* Technical Lead and Software Developer Tel: (+354) 415 0200 [email protected] www.greenqloud.com On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Erik Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > My understanding is that managed storage are managed by a cloudstack > plugin, e.g. where cloudstack does something on the actual storage > (provision a lun or something), whilst unmanaged is managed outside of > cloudstack (for instance by you). > An example of a manged storage is Solidfire, an example of unmanaged is > Your local NFS server where you manually exported a mountpoint. > > Hope that clears it up :-) > > -- > Erik > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Jeff Hair <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Is there anywhere in the mailing list, documentation, etc about what > > exactly "managed storage" means? Or can someone explain the difference > > between managed and unmanaged? The API docs say that it means whether or > > not the storage is "managed by CloudStack." This isn't very detailed > > information though. I've scoured the docs via Google but I don't see > > anything really about it. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jeff > > >
