Storage Device Management in VDSM and oVirt
Yaniv Kaul
ykaul at redhat.com
Tue Apr 17 11:06:40 UTC 2012
On 04/17/2012 01:08 PM, Shireesh Anjal wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As part of adding Gluster support in ovirt, we need to introduce some
> Storage Device management capabilities (on the host). Since these are
> quite generic and not specific to Gluster as such, we think it might
> be useful to add it as a core vdsm and oVirt feature. At a high level,
> this involves following:
>
> - A "Storage Devices" sub-tab on "Host" entity, displaying
> information about all the storage devices*
> - Listing of different types of storage devices of a host
> - Regular Disks and Partitions*
> - LVM*
> - Software RAID*
> - Various actions related to device configuration
> - Partition disks*
> - Format and mount disks / partitions*
> - Create, resize and delete LVM Volume Groups (VGs)
> - Create, resize, delete, format and mount LVM Logical Volumes (LVs)
> - Create, resize, delete, partition, format and mount Software
> RAID devices
> - Edit properties of the devices
> - UI can be modeled similar to the system-config-lvm tool
>
> The items marked with (*) in above list are urgently required for the
> Gluster feature, and will be developed first.
>
> Comments / inputs welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Shireesh
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Anything we can share with rtslib (
http://www.risingtidesystems.com/doc/rtslib/html/) which is the API
behind targetcli which is the CLI for LIO (linux-iscsi.org) target,
which is in Linux kernel now) ?
They have some VERY basic LV and VG handling.
Y.
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