[Engine-devel] Storage Device Management in VDSM and oVirt

[Yaniv Kaul]

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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