Hi, I just sent an e-mail to Animesh about this as I can no longer edit this review for some reason.
Thanks! On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Amogh Vasekar <[email protected]>wrote: > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > https://reviews.apache.org/r/13865/ > > Reminder - > Hi, > This review has been pending for long. Please update to "submitted" if this > has already been committed. > Thanks > > > - Amogh Vasekar > > On August 27th, 2013, 9:17 p.m. UTC, Mike Tutkowski wrote: > Review request for cloudstack. > By Mike Tutkowski. > > *Updated Aug. 27, 2013, 9:17 p.m.* > *Bugs: * > CLOUDSTACK-4527<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-4527> > *Repository: * cloudstack-git > Description > > This patch is part two of the SolidFire plug-in. Part one is described in > Review Request 11479 and was implemented in CS 4.2. > > The focus of this patch is to support a one-to-one mapping between a > CloudStack volume and a SolidFire volume when using KVM. > > The hypervisor plug-ins were initially developed to expect storage was > preallocated from a storage device. In 4.2, with the storage plug-in > framework, this model has changed to additionally support Primary Storage > representing a storage device itself (ex. a SAN) as opposed to it having to > represent preallocated storage (ex. a volume from a SAN). > > In the new model, Primary Storage can represent a SAN like SolidFire's. When > a CloudStack volume is attached to a VM for the first time, the storage > framework asks the storage plug-in to execute some logic. In the SolidFire > case, this is where a volume is created on the SolidFire SAN. > > In CS 4.2, I created the SolidFire plug-in and modified necessary parts of > the storage framework as well as XenServer and VMware plug-in logic to enable > a one-to-one mapping between a CS volume and a SolidFire volume when using > XenServer and ESX(i). > > This patch aims to extend this support to KVM. > > Support is offered in the form of Disk Offerings (not Compute Offerings). > > Diffs > > > View Diff <https://reviews.apache.org/r/13865/diff/> > -- *Mike Tutkowski* *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* e: [email protected] o: 303.746.7302 Advancing the way the world uses the cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> *™*
