----- Original Message ----- > From: "Utkarsh Singh" <utkarshs...@gmail.com> > To: us...@ovirt.org > Sent: Friday, March 7, 2014 7:23:16 PM > Subject: [Users] GSoC 14 Idea Discussion - virt-sparsify integration > > Hello, > > I am Utkarsh, a 4th year undergrad from IIT Delhi and a GSoC-14 > aspirant. I have been lately involved in an ongoing project Baadal > Cloud Computing Platform in my institute, which has got me interested > in oVirt for a potential GSoC project. > > I was going through the virt-sparsify integration project idea. I have > gone through the architecture documentation on the oVirt website. As > far as I understand, the virt-sparsify integration needs to be done on > the VDSM daemon, and it's control is either going to be completely > independent of ovirt-engine (for example running it once every 24 > hours), or it's something that is centrally controlled by the > ovirt-engine through XML/RPC calls. The details are not specified in > the project ideas page. I would like to ask - > > 1. What would be the proposed ideal implementation? (Central-Control > or Independent-Control) > 2. Is virt-sparsify usage going to be automated or > administrator-triggered, or a combination of both? > > > There are some aspects of the idea, which I would like to discuss > before I start working on a proposal. > > It's not necessary that an automated usage of virt-sparsify is limited > to any simple idea. Architecture documentation states that > ovirt-engine has features like Monitoring that would allow > administrators (and possibly users) to be aware of vm-guest > performance as well as vm-host performance. I am not very sure about > how this data is collected, Is it done through MoM, or Is this > directly done by VDSM, or is someone else doing this (for hosts). It > would be great if someone can explain that to me. This information > about vm-guest usage and vm-host health can help in determining how > virt-sparsify is to be used. > > I am also not very clear about the Shared Storage component in the > architecture. Does oVirt make any assumptions about the Shared > Storage. For example, the performance difference between running > virt-sparsify on NFS as compared to running it (if possible) directly > on storage hardware. If the Storage solution is necessarily a NAS > instance, then virt-sparsify on NFS mount is the only option. > > > > Right now, I am in the process of setting up oVirt on my system, and > getting more familiar with the architecture. Regarding my experience. > I am acquainted with both Java and Python. I have little experience > with JBoss, but I have worked on some other Web Application Servers > like web2py and Play Framework. My involvement in Baadal Platform has > got me acquainted with libvirt/QEMU, the details of which I have > mentioned below (if anyone is interested). > > Please advise me about the things that I am missing about this > project. If there are some implementation details that I need to know, > kindly help me with that too. > > > > Looking forward. Thanks. > ===================== > Utkarsh > IIT Delhi > > Ongoing project details - > > Article (Old) > > http://www.cc.iitd.ernet.in/CSC/index.php?view=article&id=123:baadal-the-iitd-computing-cloud > > Github > https://github.com/apoorvemohan/newbaadal > > My contribution - Deployment Scripting and Sandbox Environment Setup for > Testing > https://github.com/apoorvemohan/newbaadal/tree/master/baadaltesting/sandbox > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > us...@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >
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