Today I had the opportunity to listen to Kevin Kluge at the inauguration event of Bangalore CloudStack Group. Some thoughts around new storage requirements popped out after this event. I thought I will post to the dev group and check what are already in progress. Kevin said, Edison Su is already in the process of designing and implementing/re-factoring some portions of storage orchestrator.
I could think of the following extensions to the current cloudstack 1. Ability to offload the data protection capabilities to the storage array. (like dedup/snapshot/backup/encypt/compress) 2. Ability to provide an API at storage orchestrator so that the storage array can write to this API 3. Extend the current storage offerings to include some of the storage array capabilities such as IOPS guarantee (or throttle), throughput guarantee (or throttle) Where can I learn the current development threads around these in cloudstack? Edision Su (or) some one who is working on this, can please provide some pointers these so that I can pull myself up to speed ?I would like to actively participate and hack some parts of it :) -- Regards, Uma. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CloudByte ElastiStor 1.0 is now available under Early Access Program<http://www.cloudbyte.com/eap.aspx> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
