Hi Gary, I notice a new blueprint is opened last night by somebody, which is very similar with my question. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/driver-specific-snapshot Could you please have a quick look and share your position for this blueprint? Thanks!
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Gary Kotton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > This is something that would be nice to add as an extension. At the moment > it is not part of our near term development plans. It would be nice to > engage the community to discuss and see how this can be exposed correctly > using the Nova API's. It may be something worthwhile discussing at the up > and coming summit. > Thanks > Gary > > From: Qin Zhao <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" < > [email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 2:05 PM > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" < > [email protected]> > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][VMWare] VMware VM snapshot > > What I mean is the snapshot of vsphere, which is describe in this page --> > http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-CA948C69-7F58-4519-AEB1-739545EA94E5.html > > It is very useful, if the user plan to perform some risky operations in a > VM. I am not quite sure if we can model it in Nova, and let the user to > create snapshot chain via Nova api. Has it been discussed in design session > or mail group? Anybody know that? > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 6:40 PM, John Garbutt <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 25 February 2014 09:27, Qin Zhao <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > One simple question about VCenter driver. I feel the VM snapshot >> function of >> > VCenter is very useful and is loved by VCenter users. Does anybody think >> > about to let VCenter driver support it? >> >> It depends if that can be modelled well with the current >> Nova/Cinder/Glance primitives. >> >> If you do boot from volume, and you see the volume snapshots, and they >> behave how cinder expects, and you can model that snapshot as an image >> in glance that you can boot new instances from, then maybe it would >> work just fine. But we need to take care not to bend the current API >> primitives too far out of place. >> >> I remember there being some talk about this at the last summit. How did >> that go? >> >> John >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev&k=oIvRg1%2BdGAgOoM1BIlLLqw%3D%3D%0A&r=eH0pxTUZo8NPZyF6hgoMQu%2BfDtysg45MkPhCZFxPEq8%3D%0A&m=HIkeI2LxCwLrVL13ha6fGUuaB%2Fd1GMZdBl5zsu8jMAE%3D%0A&s=53c780e5a48bdf84774db49876ef2ef822a63a8b8d20e23190bb42273a40c1d0> >> > > > > -- > Qin Zhao > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > -- Qin Zhao
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