Hi Jerry, I don't think we need an option for "support storage motion" when adding a cluster. A cluster is made of homogenous hosts and cloudstack is already aware of the version of the hypervisor running on them. From the version it can infer if the storage motion is supported on it. One way to do it would be to update the hypervisor_capabilities table in db and have a field for storage_motion_supported in it. If for a particular hypervisor version the field is true, cloudstack will allow storage motion.
What do you think? Regards, Devdeep > -----Original Message----- > From: jerry jiang. 蒋维 [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 6:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 > > Hi Devdeep, > > Shall we need to add an option -- "support storage motion" when adding a > cluster against one type of hypervisor, or add something in the global config. > > Jerry > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Devdeep Singh" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: 星期三, 2012年 12 月 19日 下午 5:03:34 > Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 > > Hi Alex, > > I was planning to cover the following scenarios: > 1. Live migrate a VM with disks from Host A to Host B within the same cluster. > This currently works with shared storage. I was thinking of extending it to > support local storage too. > 2. Live migrate a VM from Host A to Host B across cluster. VM's disks also > move from one storage repository to another. > 3. Live migrate a VM's disks from one storage repository to another, but VM > stays in the same host. I didn't make it clear in my earlier mail, sorry about > that. Should it be a separate jira ticket? > > For each of them the disk offerings for each disk should be honored. That is, > if > a disk is using shared storage it should be moved to a shared SR. Same applies > to disks using local storage too. > > Regards, > Devdeep > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alex Huang [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:56 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 > > > > Devdeep, > > > > It sounds like from this that all you're doing is the ability to live > > migrate vms from one cluster to another cluster. > > > > Is there anything on storage migration itself? > > > > --Alex > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Devdeep Singh [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:40 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > XenServer introduced support for Storage XenMotion in the latest > > > version (6.1). Storage XenMotion allows VMs to be moved from one > > > host to another, where the VMs are not located on storage shared > > > between the two hosts. It provides the option to live migrate a VM's > > > disks along with the VM itself. It is now possible to migrate a VM > > > from one resource pool to another, or to migrate a VM whose disks > > > are on local storage, or even to migrate a VM's disks from one > > > storage repository to > > another, all while the VM is running. > > > More information on Storage XenMotion can be found at [1]. > > > > > > I have filed a jira request [2] to track this feature. I plan to > > > extend the migrate vm cloudstack api call to allow migration of > > > instances across clusters. Do let me know your comments. > > > > > > [1] http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/08/24/storage_xenmotion/ > > > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-659 > > > > > > Regards, > > > Devdeep
