Hi, if you can, and it looks like you do, then please do. You’ll make a whole bunch of people happy, including those who don’t answer in mailing lists and forums. I have personally never worked with a Hitachi storage (only HP, 3PAR, NetApp and Dell), but the functionality you describe is exactly where I’d shout “yes, I want it too”. Regards, Karel
> On 2026. Jun 30., at 4:24, Cyrus <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > It's currently working!: > > - LUN create/elimination > - Mapping/Masking > - Masking/Unmasking on migration > - Snapshots > - Clone was implemented, but PVE cannot drive it (at least I could > find how to avoid cloning via dd on host side and offload to the > storage layer) > > Everything is driven from PVE 9.2, the only annoyance is that the > storage REST interface is taking 6 seconds to respond to simple > queries (upgrade pending). Today is SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation day. > I will enable some use cases like Windows Server Failover Clusters. > > The module is centered in Hitachi VSP, I'm mostly interested in > understanding if there are more users to justify a full refactor to > accommodate multi-vendor support. > > Regards. > >> El lun, 29 jun 2026 a las 18:09, Karel Beneš (<[email protected]>) escribió: >> >> Hi, >> If you’re seeking for reassurance, then lately I was thinking about this >> too. Why VM-level snapshots on FC storage, when nowadays these storage boxes >> are smart enough to do LUN-level snapshots. All it would require is proper >> layout on the storage side. If a LUN (or more LUNs) is dedicated to a VM, >> then you need to freeze the writes in a VM for a little and call the API of >> the storage to snapshot the LUN. Removal of a snapshot would be fully >> transparent. Where it gets more complicated is an app-aware snapshot. And >> revert to a snapshot, that would have to be done very carefully, nodes >> should not start panicking that they lost storage. Is this what you meant? >> >> Regards, >> Karel >> >> >>>> On 2026. Jun 29., at 14:20, Andrei Boros <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> We are interested in using FC based storage in PVE, including HA with >>> multipath. >>> >>> I am not sure what you mean by "the specialized box". The plugin, the >>> backend, other? >>> >>>> On 2026-06-26 1:06 AM, Cyrus wrote: >>>> Hello!, >>>> >>>> It seems the pve-devel mail list is not very welcoming or I am doing >>>> something wrong. I would try another angle: asking the users. >>>> >>>> Is there any interest in having a storage plugin to integrate to FC >>>> Storage systems in a 1 vdisk = 1 LUN fashion?. That should allow you >>>> to offload some operations like cloning/snapshots operations to the >>>> specialized box. >>>> >>>> I'm currently testing an integration with Hitachi VSP, but it could be >>>> generalized to accommodate specific brand/model drivers (would assume >>>> Dell, HPE, Huawei, Purestorage are still selling similar systems) >>>> >>>> Regards. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> *ing. Andrei Boros* >>> >>> Serviciul IT&C >>> *Radio Romania* >>> |Tel: +40-21-303-1870 >>> +40-745-115721 >>> Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>| >>> >>
