Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-12-14 Thread Nathan Johnson
> functionality exactly the way it was originally implemented and if >>>>> a user wished to change the functionality they could via a global config >>>>> variable. >>>>> >>>>> Your original spec for PR 2081 in confluence states that the PR

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-21 Thread Simon Weller
From: Tutkowski, Mike Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2018 8:40 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature Perhaps instead of renaming the setting, we can note in its description the hypervisors it currently pertains to. > On

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-19 Thread Tutkowski, Mike
he create template or download template features are used, use the > primary storage as the source. > > Kind regards, > Glen Baars > > -Original Message- > From: Will Stevens > Sent: Saturday, 19 May 2018 12:57 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: Snap

RE: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-19 Thread Glen Baars
@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature I think reverting the change in 4.11.1 is probably a good idea. *Will Stevens* Chief Technology Officer c 514.826.0190 <https://goo.gl/NYZ8KK> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 2:52 PM ilya musayev wrote: > Perhaps brin

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-18 Thread Will Stevens
which can result in the job timeout and the User may > > assume > > > > > that it is already Backed up based on its state, unless it is > > > documented. > > > > > > > > > > -Suresh > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 18, 201

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-18 Thread ilya musayev
the original PR was to optionally disable this > > > > functionality. > > > > > > > > We don't expose views of the backup state to our customers (we have > our > > > > own customer interfaces) and it's a large waste of space for us to be >

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-18 Thread Suresh Kumar Anaparti
> > > > From: Will Stevens > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2018 6:12 AM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature > > Just because it does not work for VMware should not a reason to rip out the > func

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-18 Thread Simon Weller
be > > backing up tons of VM images when we have a solid primary storage > > infrastructure that already has lots of resiliency. > > > > > > I guess we're going to have to revisit this again before we can consider > > rebasing on 4.11. > > > > ___

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-18 Thread Will Stevens
ons of VM images when we have a solid primary storage > > infrastructure that already has lots of resiliency. > > > > > > I guess we're going to have to revisit this again before we can consider > > rebasing on 4.11. > > > > _____

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-18 Thread Suresh Kumar Anaparti
Anaparti > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 2:21 PM > To: dev > Subject: Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature > > Hi Si, > > No. not possible to disable the backup to secondary. It copies the volume > snapshot to secondary in a background thread using asyncBackup param (set

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-17 Thread Simon Weller
; > - Si > > > From: Suresh Kumar Anaparti > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 1:37 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Cc: Nathan Johnson > Subject: Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature > > Hi Glen / Si, > > In PR# 1697, t

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-17 Thread Will Stevens
ouldn't even be involved in most of > > these options, instead using the native clone features of the underlying > > storage. > > > > > > - Si > > > > ________________ > > From: Suresh Kumar Anaparti > > Sent: Thursda

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-17 Thread Suresh Kumar Anaparti
; > > From: Suresh Kumar Anaparti > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 1:37 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Cc: Nathan Johnson > Subject: Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature > > Hi Glen / Si, > > In PR# 1697, the global setting *sna

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-17 Thread Simon Weller
1:37 PM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Cc: Nathan Johnson Subject: Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature Hi Glen / Si, In PR# 1697, the global setting *snapshot.backup.rightafter* if set to true, it'll be the default behaviour and snapshot is copied to the secondary storage. If set to fals

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-17 Thread Suresh Kumar Anaparti
From: Glen Baars > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 9:46 AM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature > > > Hello Devs, > > > > I have been thinking about a feature request and want to see what people > think about the u

Re: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-17 Thread Simon Weller
. - Si From: Glen Baars Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 9:46 AM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature Hello Devs, I have been thinking about a feature request and want to see what people think about the use case

Snapshots only on Primary Storage feature

2018-05-17 Thread Glen Baars
Hello Devs, I have been thinking about a feature request and want to see what people think about the use case. We use KVM + Ceph RBD as storage. Currently, when a client takes a snapshot, Cloudstack takes a Ceph snapshot and then uses qemu-img to export to secondary storage. This creates