Re: [Openstack] Thinking about Openstack Volume API

2011-04-22 Thread Erik Carlin
m>> Cc: Openstack mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Thinking about Openstack Volume API Hey Vish, Yes, we have been thinking about that a bit. The current idea is to have volume types, and depending on the type, it would expect a certain amount of data f

Re: [Openstack] Thinking about Openstack Volume API

2011-04-22 Thread Chuck Thier
Hey Vish, Yes, we have been thinking about that a bit. The current idea is to have volume types, and depending on the type, it would expect a certain amount of data for that type. The scheduler would then map that type and corresponding data to provision the right type of storage. -- Chuck On

Re: [Openstack] Thinking about Openstack Volume API

2011-04-22 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
This all seems reasonable to me. Do you have a concept of how you will expose different SLAs within the deployment. Is it metadata on the volume that and handled by the scheduler? Or will different SLAs be at separate endpoints? In other words am i creating a volume with a PUT /provider.com/

[Openstack] Thinking about Openstack Volume API

2011-04-22 Thread Chuck Thier
One of the first steps needed to help decouple volumes from Nova, is to define what the Openstack Volume API should look like. I would like to start by discussing the main api endpoints, and discussing the interaction of compute attaching/detaching from volumes. All of the following endpoints wil