FYI StorageLink has a NexentaStor support. It might be worth considering?


On 29 August 2010 16:16, Adrian Costin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
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> We’re planning on deploying a few servers using XCP and NexentaStor for
> ISCSI based storage. We’ve looked at using the lvmoiscsi model, however it
> doesn’t take advantage of all the ZFS features. Also if we use the LUNperVDI
> driver we will have tons of SR (one per VM) which will be too complicated to
> manage, not to mention the fact that snapshotting and cloning VDIs will have
> to be handled manually.
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> Nexenta comes with a HTTP based API so I think creating a SR for it will be
> fairly easy. I found the following documentation on creating a SR for XCP
> and the NexentaStor API documentation:
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> http://www.xen.org/files/XenCloud/storage.pdf
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> http://www.nexenta.com/static/NexentaStor-API.html
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> http://www.nexenta.com/static/NexentaStor-API.html
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> Since I’m only a Python beginner and also don’t have a lot of time on my
> hands currently, I’m wondering if someone would be interested in taking on
> this project and releasing the work as Open Source. I know this is not on
> XCP’s roadmap so we are looking at sponsoring the project. We can also
> provide a test/development environment (XCP server and NexentaStor server)
> for the interested party.
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> Best regards,
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> Adrian Costin
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