[ovirt-users] [RFI] oVirt 3.6 Planning

[Itamar Heim]

On 09/18/2014 11:35 AM, Robert Story wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:22:41 +0300 Itamar wrote:
> IH> With oVirt 3.5 nearing GA, time to ask for "what do you want to see in
> IH> oVirt 3.6"?
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> I've always thought it would be a good idea to have a 'storage agent' to
> run on storage domains, which could perform some operations more optimally
> that the current system. For example, exporting/importing domains currently
> reads the whole VM image over the network, then writes it back. In my case,
> my storage is all located on the smae NFS server, which could simply do an
> OS copy locally, instead of reading/writing gigabytes over the network. I
> don't know if other storage type could perform similar optimizations
>

not in 3.6. doing native storage operations is for sure a top item in 
the storage list going forward.
notice you can do these operations today at disk level and register the 
externally cloned disks via the REST API.
since 3.5 you can also detach and attach storage domains across DCs/Engines


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