Thank you Xing , can snapshot work with thick LUN? can i just buy snapshot license and make it work
Thanks On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 1:58 AM, yang, xing <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > The document you referenced is for the VNX Direct Driver. If you use the > VNX Direct driver, you need the “thin provisioning license” to create thin > LUNs. If you are only creating thick LUNs, you can skip this license. You > need the VNX Snapshot license to create a snapshot in Cinder. > > > > I’m not sure why the licenses are not required when you are using VMWare > cluster. Maybe they are thick LUNs only and snapshots are snapview > snapshots instead of VNX snapshots. > > > > You need to have cinder-volume running, either on a separate node or on > the controller node in order to use a cinder driver. > > > > Thanks, > > Xing > > > > > > > > *From:* mad Engineer [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, November 14, 2014 12:44 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Openstack] cinder and EMC VNX storage > > > > Hi all, > > Currently i am using icehouse release with KVM compute nodes and a > server with *cinder-volume* installed as my storage server,(it uses iscsi > to export lvm disks to compute nodes.) > > Now i got a chance to TEST EMC storage ie EMC VNX for couple of days which > is currently used by our vmware cluster . > > > > but as per icehouse documentation > > > > *You must activate VNX Snapshot and Thin Provisioning license for the > array.* > > > > But i don't have separate license for this and i am sure vmware was using > this array without any issue (not managed by openstack) > > > > 1.Do i really need this license to make it work with cinder (if i don't > care about thin provisioning). > > 2.Isn't it possible to use qcow2 image format with EMC VNX and use its > native snapshot feature? > > 3.Do i still need to keep a separate node with cinder-volume installed or > can my controller node with cinder-api running can directly communicate? > > > > > > i am not aware whether there is any separate mailing list for cinder > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > >
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