Hey Edison, It is entirely possible that Zone wide for my plug-in would make sense. I'm trying to understand what restrictions, if any, are in place if it is Zone wide versus Cluster wide.
In my case, the plug-in I'm developing will be creating an iSCSI target (volume/LUN) (nothing NFS related) and if that is best to make available at a Zone level, that is totally fine with me. What would you suggest for my situation? Thanks! On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Edison Su <edison...@citrix.com> wrote: > That API will be easy to be added, and yes, I’ll add it next week.**** > > In the last email, I just give zone-wide primary storage as an example, > and I thought your storage box will be zone-wide? As you can see, > createstoragepoolcmd api is quite flexible, it can be used for > zone-wide/cluster storage, so do the storage plugin.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Mike Tutkowski [mailto:mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com] > *Sent:* Friday, March 08, 2013 4:09 PM > *To:* Edison Su > *Cc:* cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: Making use of a 4.2 storage plug-in from the GUI or API**** > > ** ** > > OK, cool - thanks for the info, Edison.**** > > ** ** > > When you say, "One API is missing," does that mean you're still working on > implementing that functionality?**** > > ** ** > > Also, it sounds like these plug-ins are associated with Zone-wide Primary > Storage. I thought Zone-wide Primary Storage wasn't available for all > hypervisors?**** > > ** ** > > This is from a different e-mail you sent out: > > "Xenserver and vmware doesn’t support zone wide primary storage, > currently, this feature is only for NFS/Ceph in KVM. And I think it should > be useful for your storage box? I am thinking per data volume per LUN for > xenserver."**** > > ** ** > > I'm not sure how my plug-in would work with XenServer, VMware, etc. if it > has to be Zone-wide.**** > > ** ** > > Can you clarify this for me?**** > > ** ** > > Thanks!**** > > ** ** > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Edison Su <edison...@citrix.com> wrote:*** > * > > One API is missing, liststorageproviderscmd, which will list all the > storage providers registered in the mgt server. **** > > When adding a zone wide storage pool on the UI, the UI will have a > drop-down list to show all the primary storage providers. Then user will > choose one of them, and select some other parameters for the storage user > wants to add. At the end, UI will call, createstoragepoolcmd, with > provider=the-storage-provider-uuid-returned from liststoageprovidercmd, > scope=zone, and other input parameters. Mgt server will then call > corresponding storage provider based on provider uuid, to register the > storage into cloudstack.**** > > **** > > *From:* Mike Tutkowski [mailto:mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com] > *Sent:* Friday, March 08, 2013 2:46 PM > *To:* cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > *Cc:* Edison Su > *Subject:* Making use of a 4.2 storage plug-in from the GUI or API**** > > **** > > Hi,**** > > **** > > As you may remember, I'm leveraging Edison's new (4.2) storage plug-in > framework to build what is probably the first such plug-in for CloudStack. > **** > > **** > > I was wondering, does anyone know how to make the system aware of the > plug-in? I believe once the plug-in is ready (i.e. usable) that the intent > is to be able to select it when creating Primary Storage (instead of having > to select a pre-existent iSCSI target).**** > > **** > > I'm curious how to get this working (i.e. select my plug-in) in the GUI > and via the API.**** > > **** > > Thanks!**** > > **** > > -- > *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> *™*
