SSVM, templates and managed storage (iscsi/KVM)... how does it work ?

2019-03-03 Thread Jean-Francois Nadeau
Hi all, Im kicking the tires with managed storage with under 4.11.2 with KVM and Datera as primary storage. My first attempt at creating a VM from a template stored on NFS secondary failed silently. Looking at the SSVM cloud logs I saw no exception. The VM root disks gets properly created on

Re: Managed Storage

2016-08-03 Thread Jeff Hair
arrays have a special > understanding of CloudStack and expose additional configuration options. > > Local storage > - Unless explicitly configured for use with CS, this is unused. Any > existing local storage on a XenServer host when the host is added to > CloudStack will be los

Re: Managed Storage

2016-08-03 Thread Tim Mackey
rstanding of CloudStack and expose additional configuration options. Local storage - Unless explicitly configured for use with CS, this is unused. Any existing local storage on a XenServer host when the host is added to CloudStack will be lost. In the case of everything *except* PreSetup, I think

Re: Managed Storage

2016-08-03 Thread Jeff Hair
So essentially, CS is categorizing managed storage as something it needs to make a series of API calls etc to in order to set up and configure it? Whereas unmanaged is something it expects you to provide settings for when adding, and expects you to have set it up yourself prior to adding? *Jeff

Re: Managed Storage

2016-08-03 Thread Erik Weber
My understanding is that managed storage are managed by a cloudstack plugin, e.g. where cloudstack does something on the actual storage (provision a lun or something), whilst unmanaged is managed outside of cloudstack (for instance by you). An example of a manged storage is Solidfire, an example

Managed Storage

2016-08-03 Thread Jeff Hair
Hi, Is there anywhere in the mailing list, documentation, etc about what exactly "managed storage" means? Or can someone explain the difference between managed and unmanaged? The API docs say that it means whether or not the storage is "managed by CloudStack." This isn't