[vdsm] Storage Device Management in VDSM and oVirt

Deepak C Shetty deepakcs at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu May 3 15:24:25 UTC 2012


On 04/25/2012 04:52 PM, Deepak C Shetty wrote:
>
> This seems interesting.
>
> I am interested in pursuing this further and helping contribute to the 
> vdsm lsm integration. lsm is still in the early stages, but i feel its 
> the right time to start influencing it so that vdsm integration can be 
> smooth. My interest mainly lies in how external storage array can be 
> integrated into oVirt/VDSM and help oVirt exploit the array offload 
> features as part of the virtualization stack.
>
> I didn't find any oVirt wiki page on this topic, tho' there is a old 
> mailing list thread on vdsm lsm integration, which when read brings up 
> more issues to discuss :)
> How does storage repo engine and possible vdsm services framework ( i 
> learnt about these in my brief chat with Saggie some time back) play a 
> role here ?
>
> Can "Provisioning Storage" itself be like a high level service, with 
> gluster and lsm  exposing storage services, which vdsm can enumerate 
> and send to oVirt GUI, is that the idea ?
> Is there any wiki page on this topic which lists the todos on this 
> front, which I can start looking at ?
>

Hello Ayal,
     Looking for you opinion here.

thanx,
deepak




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