Re: [Kimchi-devel] [RFC] FIBRE CHANNEL StoragePool

Hi Rodrigo, In my understanding, this task could include the following sub-tasks: 1. Allow user to define a storage pool by specifying a fc host. (by the second link you added) 2. Allow user to configure vm to use LUN contained in the storage pool defined in 1. It can be done by "type='volume'", which only available from libvirt 1.0.5. You also can get an example from the link 1 you added. That also needs to change the vm template and kimchi's vm creation flow, because kimchi can't use existing volume or image. And we can't create new volume in a 'scsi' pool or 'iscsi' pool. For these two kinds of storage pool, we only can use the volumes(LUNs) predefined on the storage backend. 3. Add a 'refresh' operation for the storage pool. It will invoke a scsi rescan automatically by libvirt. So after the storage admin add new luns on the storage, it can just click the 'refresh' button instead of manually invoking rescan manually. What benefits can provide this feature? Actually, except it can help the host storage management a little bit easier, I don't see others. Because we can just use logical pool on top of the LUNs provided by fc host. It also provide more flexibility. It doesn't like iscsi, libvirt provide connection management. For fc host, kernel can probe and attach the LUNs on boot up. On Fri 20 Dec 2013 05:27:52 AM CST, Rodrigo Trujillo wrote: