When you say, "expose luns to vm's," do you mean attach disks based on iSCSI targets to VMs? I can see that as a possible use case for zone-wide iSCSI Primary Storage.
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Ahmad Emneina <aemne...@gmail.com> wrote: > i've seen the request to expose luns to vm's which would more or less be > zone wide primary storage. as far as it being something people would do in > real life is another question. > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Mike Tutkowski < > mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > > wrote: > > > Well, I'm trying to think if it would be beneficial for my use case. :) > > > > So, it looks like I'll be presenting at a CloudStack Meetup in CA on > April > > 3rd. I was hoping to get my plug-in done a week or so before then and > then > > show people how to build one. Any chance you might have a little time to > > respond back to that e-mail I sent a couple days about about implementing > > plug-in methods? Any help with that is greatly appreciated! :) > > > > Thanks!! > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Edison Su <edison...@citrix.com> wrote: > > > > > Xenserver and vmware doesn’t support zone wide primary storage, > > currently, > > > this feature is only for NFS/Ceph in KVM. And I think it should be > useful > > > for your storage box? I am thinking per data volume per LUN for > > xenserver. > > > **** > > > > > > ** ** > > > > > > *From:* Mike Tutkowski [mailto:mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com] > > > *Sent:* Thursday, March 07, 2013 1:47 PM > > > *To:* cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > > > *Cc:* Edison Su > > > *Subject:* Question about Zone-wide Primary Storage (4.2 Feature)**** > > > > > > ** ** > > > > > > Hi,**** > > > > > > ** ** > > > > > > It looks like in 4.2 we can assign Primary Storage to be not only for a > > > single Cluster, but Zone-wide (or specific to a Host).**** > > > > > > ** ** > > > > > > I'm wondering how Zone-wide Primary Storage works for iSCSI.**** > > > > > > ** ** > > > > > > For example, in 4.1 when you create a Primary Storage based on iSCSI > and > > > specify, say, a XenServer Cluster, CloudStack creates a Shared Storage > > > Repository for that Cluster based on the iSCSI target.**** > > > > > > ** ** > > > > > > How will this work with Zone-wide iSCSI-based Primary Storage? If you > > > have, say, two XenServer Clusters, which one will CloudStack create the > > > Shared Storage Repository on? What if one Cluster is VMware and > another > > is > > > XenServer, etc.?**** > > > > > > ** ** > > > > > > Thanks! > > > **** > > > > > > ** ** > > > > > > -- > > > *Mike Tutkowski***** > > > > > > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.***** > > > > > > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com**** > > > > > > o: 303.746.7302**** > > > > > > Advancing the way the world uses the cloud< > > http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > > > *™***** > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > *Mike Tutkowski* > > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > > o: 303.746.7302 > > Advancing the way the world uses the > > cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > > *™* > > > -- *Mike Tutkowski* *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com o: 303.746.7302 Advancing the way the world uses the cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> *™*
