Just a document to work on a patch. :)

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Is there a patch, or is this to document work on a forthcoming patch?
> I'd just be interested in looking at the KVM Storage Adaptor.
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Mike Tutkowski
> <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've drawn up a Review Board Request for 4.3 and assigned it to myself.
> >
> > https://reviews.apache.org/r/13865/
> >
> > Here is the JIRA ticket:
> >
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-4527
> >
> > Here is the gist:
> >
> > This patch is part two of the SolidFire plug-in. Part one is described
> > in Review Request 11479 and was implemented in CS 4.2.
> >
> > The focus of this patch is to support a one-to-one mapping between a
> > CloudStack volume and a SolidFire volume when using KVM.
> >
> > The hypervisor plug-ins were initially developed to expect storage was
> > preallocated from a storage device. In 4.2, with the storage plug-in
> > framework, this model has changed to additionally support Primary
> > Storage representing a storage device itself (ex. a SAN) as opposed to
> > it having to represent preallocated storage (ex. a volume from a SAN).
> >
> > In the new model, Primary Storage can represent a SAN like
> > SolidFire's. When a CloudStack volume is attached to a VM for the
> > first time, the storage framework asks the storage plug-in to execute
> > some logic. In the SolidFire case, this is where a volume is created
> > on the SolidFire SAN.
> >
> > In CS 4.2, I created the SolidFire plug-in and modified necessary
> > parts of the storage framework as well as XenServer and VMware plug-in
> > logic to enable a one-to-one mapping between a CS volume and a
> > SolidFire volume when using XenServer and ESX(i).
> >
> > This patch aims to extend this support to KVM.
> >
> >
> > Please let me know if you have any comments.
> >
> > 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>
> > *™*
>



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*Mike Tutkowski*
*Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.*
e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com
o: 303.746.7302
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