Re: [ovirt-devel] Removal of Export Storage Domain and virt-v2v
Yaniv wrote:
And indeed, we won't deprecate it without a suitable
replacement.
While you can already upload disks, we are working towards upload/download
of VMs.
See
http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/virt/enhance-imp...
My concern with this (if I've understood it correctly) is it's going
to be slow and require considerable extra storage on the conversion
server.
At the moment -- using NFS -- we can stream from VMware to oVirt,
requiring almost no local storage on the conversion server.
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 03:30:12PM +0300, Arik Hadas wrote:
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> Although virt-v2v can still work via the GUI, this isn't really
> suitable for bulk, scripted upload of hundreds or thousands of VMs.
>
We now enable triggering that process also via REST-API (this is mostly
intended for importing from VMware using ManageIQ, which is expected to be
available soon).
That requires virt-v2v to be installed on the oVirt nodes so it's not
quite a replacement for what you can do with ‘virt-v2v -o rhv’ today.
Can we have a REST API so that we can upload the disk images and OVF
metadata to some directory on the NFS server (eg. an ‘/import’
directory), and then the call the REST API which would complete the
import -- ie. update the database, and move the images to their final
places (bonus points if it can handle chown-ing the images too).
Other than that, there is a rumor about introucing a
backup-data-domain.
Hopefully, that plan will also be shared publicly and we'll know more
details about it. If it will be close in concept to the export domain, we
may be able to replace the export domain with that domain in virt-v2v.
Any more details of this?
Rich.
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