[ovirt-devel] Interacting with VDSM storage without oVirt Engine

[Hayley Swimelar]

On 05/31/2016 10:40 AM, Nir Soffer wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Hayley Swimelar <hayley at linbit.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 05/31/2016 08:25 AM, Yaniv Dary wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you explain the use case? What are you trying to use VDSM for?
>>> The API you want to use is internal and can break without notice.
>>
>>
>> Hi Yaniv,
>>
>> I'm working to to integrate DRBD storage into VDSM.
>>
>> It will be a new type of storage domain, so I can't use the GUI since the
>> engine component won't be aware of it as far as I can tell.
>>
>> The current plan is to have another developer on our end make changes to the
>> Engine once the VDSM side is working.
>
> Hi Hayley,
>
> Sounds cool, can you describe in more details the use case, and how do
> you think this
> can work?
>

Hi Nir,

The use case is to make replicated block level storage available in oVirt.

VDSM should be able to communicate with DRBD via DRBD Manage, which is a 
new administrative layer for the latest release.

> Cheers,
> Nir

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