Yep, it is unfortunate that XenServer is not as flexible as ESXi is in this
regard. It means we can't use our backend snapshot technologies. We have to
make a new volume and use front-end CPU cycles and network bandwidth to
copy the VDI.
Not an ideal situation, but it's what we can offer in CS
thanks for the detailed information mike.
since there is a UUID confilct in XenServer we are left with only one
option, that is to copy the VDI over the network to the new volume created
during the process of taking volume snapshot.
but my concern is, when an admin takes a recurring snapshots is
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
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
thanks for the info mike.i'll go through your commits of 4.6.
the updated plugin i pushed for 4.5 used to only take backend storage
snapshot in cloudbyte. but when i'm trying to create a volume out of that
snapshot it is going to motion service where it is trying to copy the vmfs
or vmdk file but
I think it might be easier if you examine my plug-in along with two new
classes:
StorageSystemSnapshotStrategy
StorageSystemDataMotionStrategy
Those last two classes are intended for managed storage in general (i.e.
they are not SolidFire specific).
That code currently only handles XenServer.
thanks mike, i'll go through the classes and i'll try to test it on a
master(4.6) setup for the better understanding.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Mike Tutkowski
mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com wrote:
I think it might be easier if you examine my plug-in along with two new
classes:
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
