Shireesh Anjal wrote:
> As part of adding Gluster support in ovirt, we need to introduce some Storage > Device management capabilities (on the host). Since these are quite generic > and not specific to Gluster as such, we think it might be > useful to add it as a core vdsm and oVirt feature. At a high level, this > involves following: > - A "Storage Devices" sub-tab on "Host" entity, displaying information about > all the storage devices* > - Listing of different types of storage devices of a host > - Regular Disks and Partitions* > - LVM* > - Software RAID* > - Various actions related to device configuration > - Partition disks* > - Format and mount disks / partitions* > - Create, resize and delete LVM Volume Groups (VGs) > - Create, resize, delete, format and mount LVM Logical Volumes (LVs) > - Create, resize, delete, partition, format and mount Software RAID > devices > - Edit properties of the devices > - UI can be modeled similar to the system-config-lvm tool This actually strikes me as a very limited set of servi ces from the volume layer. Storage Devices should also be able to optionally expose the following capabilities: - Snapshot/rollback - Clone volume from existing volume (or snapshot) - Control of thin provisioning. - Specification of a Class of Storage (to guide selection of drives, SSD vs HDD, etc.) _______________________________________________ Engine-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel
