Oops I meant Harika, I know that Nathan you were working on something like this a while back with Ceph so I assumed you where the one who proposed this. Anyways, Harika, look at the locationType parameter in the CreateSnaphsot API command. This is what you are looking to implement. Note that this currently only works for Managed storage (SolidFire) so you'd have to work it into the standard non-managed storage.
Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, -Syed On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Syed Ahmed <sah...@cloudops.com> wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > This option to choose between primary and secondary was added by me a > while back. You want to look at > > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1600 > > > On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Nathan Johnson <njohn...@ena.com> wrote: > >> Harika Punna <harika.pu...@accelerite.com> wrote: >> > >> > Currently, Volume Snapshots in Cloudstack take considerable amount of >> > time to complete as snapshot involves creation on primary and backup on >> > secondary. I would like to introduce an optional parameter in >> > CreateSnapshotCmd API to separate these operations. >> > >> > >> > More details in the FS: >> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Separ >> ate+creation+and+backup+operations+for+a+volume+snapshot >> > >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Harika. >> >> Hello Harika. There was a related discussion around a global >> configuration >> parameter snapshot.backup.rightafter >> >> See the thread here: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-4858 >> >> And here is the PR where this was merged into 4.9: >> >> https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1697 >> >> This is distinct from what you propose, and I like the idea of being able >> to specify whether or not to back up at snapshot creation time, versus >> only >> having a global configuration parameter. >> >> Also one remaining issue with the current implementation of snapshots and >> backups is that if the snapshot.backup.rightafter parameter is set to >> false, on doing certain operations with snapshots (create template from >> snapshot iirc, perhaps some others) it will then need to take the backup >> to >> secondary at that time, and it will be very slow. I think at some point >> you have to take that hit, so maybe there is no way around this. >> >> But that brings me to a followup point: since the PR was merged above, ACS >> will backup on-demand any snapshots that need to be on secondary that only >> exist on primary. it would be nice to also have an optional cleanup thread >> and an expiration of backups to secondary. Or maybe API endpoints that >> would allow some external management of backups. >> >> What do you think? >> >> >> Nathan Johnson >> R&D Engineer >> Education Networks of America >> >> >
