[ovirt-devel] Interacting with VDSM storage without oVirt Engine

[Hayley Swimelar]

On 05/31/2016 12:15 PM, Yaniv Dary wrote:
> Have you considered submitting a design document to the oVirt website.
> We will be happy to help in making this happen.


I believe there is already one here: 
http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/infra/drbd/

I would be happy to update it as that was written for DRBD 8.4 and I'm 
working with DRBD 9.

>
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Hayley Swimelar <hayley at linbit.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 05/31/2016 10:40 AM, Nir Soffer wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Hayley Swimelar <hayley at linbit.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 05/31/2016 08:25 AM, Yaniv Dary wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you explain the use case? What are you trying to use VDSM for?
>>>>> The API you want to use is internal and can break without notice.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Yaniv,
>>>>
>>>> I'm working to to integrate DRBD storage into VDSM.
>>>>
>>>> It will be a new type of storage domain, so I can't use the GUI since the
>>>> engine component won't be aware of it as far as I can tell.
>>>>
>>>> The current plan is to have another developer on our end make changes to
>>>> the
>>>> Engine once the VDSM side is working.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Hayley,
>>>
>>> Sounds cool, can you describe in more details the use case, and how do
>>> you think this
>>> can work?
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Nir,
>>
>> The use case is to make replicated block level storage available in oVirt.
>>
>> VDSM should be able to communicate with DRBD via DRBD Manage, which is a
>> new administrative layer for the latest release.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>> Nir
>>>
>>
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Hayley Swimelar
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DRBD — Corosync — Pacemaker
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