I would recommend you take a look at a bunch of my most recent 4.6 commits.
On Sunday, February 15, 2015, Mike Tutkowski <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > I am working on creating the necessary infrastructure to support managed > snapshots on XenServer and ESXi in 4.6 (for block storage, that is). > > For example, with XenServer, you cannot simply take a backend snapshot of > the LUN that contains the SR and VDI. > > Technically you can, however, you would find that your snapshot cannot be > attached to any of the XenServer hosts in the cluster if the original LUN > you took a snapshot of is still attached in that cluster (due to > duplicate immutable UUIDs on the SRs and VDIs). > > This is an issue I have been discussing with someone who works on > XenServer. > > ESXi is a bit better here since it allows you to re-signature a datastore > (so taking a backend snapshot should work nicely in 4.6 once I finish the > code). > > If you are talking about NFS, it's probably okay if you just take a > backend snapshot of the VMDK file in question. > > On Sunday, February 15, 2015, Punith S <punit...@cloudbyte.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','punit...@cloudbyte.com');>> wrote: > >> Hi Stackers, >> >> I have been testing out the cloudstack 4.5 RC on vmware setup with >> Cloudbyte as a storage backend for supporting managed storage, while taking >> a snapshot of a data disk i'm only taking the snapshot from the storage >> side only, but on cloning the snapshot of the volume is it enough to just >> clone the particular volume on the storage side ? so that the vmdk also be >> reproduced again! >> >> on the default primary storage i'm guessing, cloning will be just a copy >> of a vmdk file on the same primary datastore! >> >> thanks >> -- >> regards, >> >> punith s >> cloudbyte.com >> > > > -- > *Mike Tutkowski* > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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>*™*
