What about using ATA over ethernet (AoE) as an optional storage transport within ovirt?  Is this feasible?  It seems that the protocol is fast and efficient.

On Sep 10, 2013 11:58 AM, "Baptiste AGASSE" <baptiste.agasse@lyra-network.com> wrote:

Hi all,

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Itamar Heim" <iheim@redhat.com>
> À: users@ovirt.org
> Envoyé: Mardi 20 Août 2013 23:19:16
> Objet: [Users] so, what do you want next in oVirt?
>
> earlier in the year we did a survey for feature requests /
> improvements
> / etc.
>
> since a lot of things were added, and priorities usually change, I'd
> like to ask again for "what do you need the most from oVirt / what
> are
> your pain points" next?
>
> below[1] I've listed my understanding of what already went in from
> previous survey requests (to various degrees of coverage).
>
> Thanks,
>     Itamar
>
> [1] from the top 12
> V Allow disk resize
> V Integrate Nagios/Zabbix monitoring - via a ui plugin
> V Highly Available engine - via hosted engine[2]
> V Open vSwitch integration - via neutron integration
> X Allow cloning VMs without template
> ? Enable hypervisor upgrade/updates through engine[3]
> V Allow engine on an oVirt hosted VM - via hosted engine[2]
> V Enable guest configuration (root password, SSH keys, network) via
>    guest agent in engine - via cloud-init
> X Integrate v2v into engine
> ? Bond/extend ovirtmgmt with a second network for HA/increased
>    bandwidth[4]
> X Integrate scheduling of snapshots and VM export for backups in
>    engine[5]
> V Spice – support Google Chrome - via mime based launch
>
>
> Other items mentioned in previous survey which should be covered by
> now:
> - Fix timeout when adding local host during all-in-one configuration
> - Fix engine set-up when SELinux is disabled
> - Provide packages for el6 (CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
> - Allow multiple VMs to be deployed from the same template at the
> same
>    time
> - ISO domains on local/GlusterS
> - Show IP addresses in Virtual Machines->Network Interfaces
> - OpenStack Quantum support (now called Neutron)
> - noVNC support
> - Support spice.html5 and websocket proxy
> - Add other guest OSes to list
> - Port oVirt guest agent to Ubuntu[6]
> - SLA - Allow resource time-sharing
> - Spice - Mac client (via mime based launch)
> - Spice - port XPI plug-in to Windows (not sure this will happen, but
>    mime based launch allows using firefox now)
> - Spice - client for Ubuntu/Debian (should be covered via mime based
>    launch)
>
>
> [2] hosted engine is in active development, but not released yet.
> [3] host update is supported, but not for general yum update.
> [4] a lot of improvements were done in this space, but i'm not sure
> if
>      they cover this exact use case
> [5] backup api is now being pushed to master, and orchestration of
>      backups should probably happen via 3rd part backup vendors?
> [6] I'm not sure packaging exists yet, but ubuntu is covered for the
>      basic functionality of the guest agent.
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Thanks for this thread !

- ISCSI EqualLogic SAN support or use standard iscsi tools/configuration
- SSO for webui and cli (IPA integration)
- PXE boot for nodes
- VMs dependencies on startup

Have a nice day.

Regards.

---
Baptiste
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