I wonder, Ilya, if you are referring to VM snaps? Seif and I are referring to volume snaps (perhaps we should clarify that in Seif's proposal).
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Mike Tutkowski < mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > Also, Ilya, this is for managed storage. > > Manage storage requires a plug-in that can dynamically create and delete > volumes on its backend storage system. > > Usually you do this when you want each virtual disk to be on its own > datastore. This would be done for quality-of-service purposes. > > > On Friday, March 27, 2015, Mike Tutkowski <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Ilya, >> >> Basically we want to take snapshots on the SAN that is supporting primary >> storage. >> >> We could then use those snapshots when the time comes to create >> CloudStack volumes and templates. >> >> Can you tell me more about the current behavior of snapshots for ESXi, >> Ilya? What release was the behavior changed in and how does it actually >> work as of that release? >> >> Last I understood, when you initiate a snapshot from CS using ESXi, a >> hypervisor >> snapshot is taken and it gets copied to secondary storage. >> >> Thanks, >> Mike >> >> On Friday, March 27, 2015, ilya <ilya.mailing.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Mike/Seif, >>> >>> The snapshot behavior for VmWare vSphere has changed a while ago. >>> CloudStack now uses native VmWare snapshot ability and longer puts it on >>> Secondary Store. >>> >>> So reading this, sort of puzzled me. Maybe explain a work flow as to >>> before and after scenario. >>> >>> Regards >>> ilya >>> >>> On 3/27/15 8:41 AM, Seif Eddine Jemli wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> I am Seif Eddine Jemli, a final year student in a french computer >>>> science >>>> engineering college (ENSEIRB-MATMECA). >>>> >>>> For GSOC 2015, I'm interested in looking at the JIRA Ticket >>>> *CLOUDSTACK-8341* : *Enabling snapshots to be taken on primary storage >>>> for >>>> the ESXi hypervisor using managed storage* >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-8341 >>>> >>>> >>>> My full proposal can be found on Google Melange at: >>>> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/public/google/ >>>> gsoc2015/sjemli/5717271485874176 >>>> >>>> I am relying on your advices and suggestions! >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Seif >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> *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>*™*
