So, Marcus, I need to investigate libvirt more, but you figure it supports connecting to/disconnecting from iSCSI targets, right?
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Mike Tutkowski < mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > OK, thanks, Marcus > > I am currently looking through some of the classes you pointed out last > week or so. > > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Marcus Sorensen <shadow...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Yes, my guess is that you will need the iscsi initiator utilities >> installed. There should be standard packages for any distro. Then you'd >> call an agent storage adaptor to do the initiator login. See the info I >> sent previously about LibvirtStorageAdaptor.java and libvirt iscsi storage >> type to see if that fits your need. >> On Sep 13, 2013 4:55 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> As you may remember, during the 4.2 release I developed a SolidFire >>> (storage) plug-in for CloudStack. >>> >>> This plug-in was invoked by the storage framework at the necessary times >>> so that I could dynamically create and delete volumes on the SolidFire SAN >>> (among other activities). >>> >>> This is necessary so I can establish a 1:1 mapping between a CloudStack >>> volume and a SolidFire volume for QoS. >>> >>> In the past, CloudStack always expected the admin to create large >>> volumes ahead of time and those volumes would likely house many root and >>> data disks (which is not QoS friendly). >>> >>> To make this 1:1 mapping scheme work, I needed to modify logic in the >>> XenServer and VMware plug-ins so they could create/delete storage >>> repositories/datastores as needed. >>> >>> For 4.3 I want to make this happen with KVM. >>> >>> I'm coming up to speed with how this might work on KVM, but I'm still >>> pretty new to KVM. >>> >>> Does anyone familiar with KVM know how I will need to interact with the >>> iSCSI target? For example, will I have to expect Open iSCSI will be >>> installed on the KVM host and use it for this to work? >>> >>> Thanks for any suggestions, >>> Mike >>> >>> -- >>> *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> *™*
