RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-03-18 Thread Devdeep Singh
comments. Regards, Devdeep -Original Message- From: Devdeep Singh [mailto:devdeep.si...@citrix.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 7:24 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 Hi Alex, Please see inline

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-03-11 Thread Sateesh Chodapuneedi
January 2013 07:35 To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 I will double check, maybe things have changed in newer versions, but last I checked the copy storage qemu option doesn't support the fancy stuff like backing images

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-22 Thread Devdeep Singh
works in this scenario. Regards, Devdeep -Original Message- From: Anthony Xu [mailto:xuefei...@citrix.com] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 7:19 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 Devdeep, You mentioned one

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-18 Thread Devdeep Singh
- From: Edison Su [mailto:edison...@citrix.com] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 6:58 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 -Original Message- From: Devdeep Singh [mailto:devdeep.si...@citrix.com] Sent: Wednesday

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-17 Thread Edison Su
-Original Message- From: Devdeep Singh [mailto:devdeep.si...@citrix.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 2:44 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 Hi Anthony, I tried storage xenmotion for two VMs

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-17 Thread Edison Su
-Original Message- From: Marcus Sorensen [mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 4:35 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 The main blocker for KVM is that you can't start the vm

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-17 Thread Edison Su
Do you have document about how xenmotion works? I looked at http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/08/24/storage_xenmotion/ and http://www.citrix.com/wsdm/restServe/skb/attachments/RDY8035/LiveStorageMigrationwithXenServer.pdf, still not quite sure, what happened underneath. For example, what the

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-17 Thread Anthony Xu
: Thursday, January 17, 2013 5:28 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 -Original Message- From: Devdeep Singh [mailto:devdeep.si...@citrix.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 2:44 AM To: cloudstack-dev

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-17 Thread Marcus Sorensen
[mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 4:35 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 The main blocker for KVM is that you can't start the vm with the -snapshot command (which is a way to start

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-16 Thread Devdeep Singh
in the destination storage pool. Is this an issue? Regards, Devdeep -Original Message- From: Anthony Xu [mailto:xuefei...@citrix.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 7:21 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-16 Thread Srikanteswararao Talluri
@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 If we are thinking about VMware compatibility, there are a number of factors can prevent a VM from being eligible for storage vMotion: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-16 Thread Devdeep Singh
Hi Alex, Please see inline. Regards, Devdeep -Original Message- From: Alex Huang [mailto:alex.hu...@citrix.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 5:47 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 Devdeep, I read

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-16 Thread Sateesh Chodapuneedi
16, 2013 8:05 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 If we are thinking about VMware compatibility, there are a number of factors can prevent a VM from being eligible for storage vMotion: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere

Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-16 Thread Chris Sears
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Koushik Das koushik@citrix.comwrote: Looks like storage vmotion is not possible for VMs with linked clone. Check this KB http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1014249. This is for 4.x, not sure if the

Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-16 Thread Marcus Sorensen
We want this for KVM as well. libvirt has been able to do a storage copy along with a live migrate for awhile now, so it's just a matter of making sure that the implementation is compatible so we can plumb in the libvirt stuff. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Chris Sears

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-16 Thread Alex Huang
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 We want this for KVM as well. libvirt has been able to do a storage copy along with a live migrate for awhile now, so it's just a matter of making sure that the implementation is compatible so we can plumb in the libvirt stuff

Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-16 Thread Marcus Sorensen
[mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 1:33 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 We want this for KVM as well. libvirt has been able to do a storage copy along with a live migrate for awhile now, so

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-15 Thread Alex Huang
To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 Hi Swamy, In the following scenario when a VM has disks in different repositories, all the virtual disks of the VM will be moved to the same destination repository. Moving individual disks

Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-15 Thread Chris Sears
? --Alex -Original Message- From: Devdeep Singh [mailto:devdeep.si...@citrix.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 1:58 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 Hi Swamy, In the following scenario when a VM

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-08 Thread Devdeep Singh
@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 Hi Devdeep, Does this also cover the following use case ? VM1 = ROOT(Storage Repository 1) = DATA-1 (Storage Repository 2) Can I migrate DATA-1 vdi alone to a different repository

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-08 Thread Hari Kannan
Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 I have created an initial draft of the FS here https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Enabling+Storage+XenMotion+for+XenServer. I'll keep updating it based on discussion and comments. Regards, Devdeep

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2013-01-08 Thread Anthony Xu
if this has any impact for XenMotion ? Anthony -Original Message- From: Hari Kannan [mailto:hari.kan...@citrix.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:44 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 Hi Devdeep, Can you

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2012-12-27 Thread Venkata SwamyBabu Budumuru
destination repository? Thanks, SWAMY -Original Message- From: Hari Kannan [mailto:hari.kan...@citrix.com] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:18 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 Hi Devdeep, Should this discussion

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2012-12-26 Thread Devdeep Singh
I have created an initial draft of the FS here https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Enabling+Storage+XenMotion+for+XenServer. I'll keep updating it based on discussion and comments. Regards, Devdeep -Original Message- From: Devdeep Singh

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2012-12-26 Thread Hari Kannan
, December 26, 2012 4:44 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 I have created an initial draft of the FS here https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Enabling+Storage+XenMotion+for+XenServer. I'll keep updating

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2012-12-20 Thread Devdeep Singh
-Original Message- From: Abhinandan Prateek [mailto:abhinandan.prat...@citrix.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 9:20 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 On 19/12/12 12:13 PM, Devdeep Singh

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2012-12-20 Thread Alex Huang
- From: jerry jiang. 蒋维 [mailto:jerry.ji...@tyxtech.com] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 6:52 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 Hi Devdeep, Shall we need to add an option -- support storage motion when

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2012-12-20 Thread Alex Huang
If the hypervisor doesn't support it, shouldn't we just fail the request with a proper message. The user/admin can shutdown the vm and then move/migrate it. The behavior would be similar to how cloudstack currently lets the VM volumes be migrated to another storage pool. Devdeep,

Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2012-12-20 Thread Nitin Mehta
On 20-Dec-2012, at 6:57 PM, Alex Huang wrote: If the hypervisor doesn't support it, shouldn't we just fail the request with a proper message. The user/admin can shutdown the vm and then move/migrate it. The behavior would be similar to how cloudstack currently lets the VM volumes be

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2012-12-19 Thread Devdeep Singh
AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 Devdeep, It sounds like from this that all you're doing is the ability to live migrate vms from one cluster to another cluster. Is there anything on storage migration itself

Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2012-12-19 Thread Nitin Mehta
using local storage too. Regards, Devdeep -Original Message- From: Alex Huang [mailto:alex.hu...@citrix.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:56 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 Devdeep, It sounds

Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2012-12-19 Thread Abhinandan Prateek
On 19/12/12 12:13 PM, Devdeep Singh devdeep.si...@citrix.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:07 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion

Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2012-12-19 Thread jerry jiang . 蒋维
, 2012年 12 月 19日 下午 5:03:34 Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 Hi Alex, I was planning to cover the following scenarios: 1. Live migrate a VM with disks from Host A to Host B within the same cluster. This currently works with shared storage. I was thinking

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2012-12-19 Thread Devdeep Singh
jiang. 蒋维 [mailto:jerry.ji...@tyxtech.com] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 6:52 AM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 Hi Devdeep, Shall we need to add an option -- support storage motion when adding a cluster against

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2012-12-19 Thread Devdeep Singh
[mailto:nitin.me...@citrix.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 9:07 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 +1 Would this be available for system vms (ssvm, cpvm and rvm ) as well ? Thanks, -Nitin On 19-Dec-2012

Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2012-12-18 Thread Chip Childers
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Devdeep Singh devdeep.si...@citrix.com wrote: Hi, XenServer introduced support for Storage XenMotion in the latest version (6.1). Storage XenMotion allows VMs to be moved from one host to another, where the VMs are not located on storage shared between the

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2012-12-18 Thread Alex Huang
Devdeep, It sounds like from this that all you're doing is the ability to live migrate vms from one cluster to another cluster. Is there anything on storage migration itself? --Alex -Original Message- From: Devdeep Singh [mailto:devdeep.si...@citrix.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 18,

RE: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1

2012-12-18 Thread Devdeep Singh
-Original Message- From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:07 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Enabling storage xenmotion on xenserver 6.1 On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Devdeep Singh devdeep.si