From: Mike Tutkowski [mailto:mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 8:07 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: Edison Su Subject: Storage plug-in question
Hi Edison, I have a quick question for you. :) A week or so ago, I went through the process of setting up iSCSI storage to be used from CloudStack with XenServer. When I tried to set the storage up by creating a Primary Storage type and selecting iSCSI as the protocol, the process did not work (I received an error message that Primary Storage could not be created). [Edison] Do you have more detailed error messages? Adding an existing iSCSI target into xenserver host, should work. What I had to do was set XenServer up to see the iSCSI storage first, then go into CloudStack and create a Primary Storage type by selecting the PreSetup option. I am wondering if in the storage_refactor branch we have solved this issue? For example, in the storage_refactor branch, the admin could associate a Primary Storage type with the SolidFire plug-in. When the user makes use of a Compute or Disk Offering that leverages the Primary Storage type that is based on the SolidFire plug-in, storage will need to be created (that's the plug-in's job) and then associated with a Cluster. If that Cluster is running XenServer, will this work? [Edison] Yes, that the PrimaryDataStoreLifeCycle will do, in the initialize method call, you can create an iSCSI LUN, then in attachCluster, you can attach it into one xenserver cluster. Basically, I just wanted to confirm that we expect this new plug-in architecture will be compatible with all of the hypervisors that CloudStack supports. Thanks! -- Mike Tutkowski Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc. e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com<mailto:mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> o: 303.746.7302 Advancing the way the world uses the cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play>(tm)
