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Paul Angus updated CLOUDSTACK-9278:
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Issue Type: New Feature (was: Bug)
> Storage Snapshot API for doing storage level snapshots
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> Key: CLOUDSTACK-9278
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9278
> Project: CloudStack
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the
> default.)
> Reporter: Syed Ahmed
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> The objective of this API is to enable storage vendor side snapshots of
> virtual disk when using managed hardware as Primary Storage. When using the
> Primary storage plugins such as SolidFire vendor, each virtual disks is a
> LUN on the storage array. Using the storage array snapshot capability
> benefits for performance and features sets supported by the storage vendor.
> StorageSnapshot does not fit in the VolumeSnapshot API because it would not
> perform the same tasks, a Volume Snapshot use the hypervisor capability to
> create a volume snapshot then extract it and archive it into the secondary
> storage. The intent of a StorageSnapshot is to perform a snapshot at the
> hardware vendor level, and keep it there for rollback purposes and disk
> cloning. StorageSnapshot is more aligned with the VMsnapshot API capability
> but is intent to be per virtual disk basis.
> Design Spec:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/StorageSnapshot++API
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