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RE: [Xen-API] [XCP] Looking to sponsor someone to create a new SR

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Subject: RE: [Xen-API] [XCP] Looking to sponsor someone to create a new SR
From: George Shuklin <george.shuklin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:05:18 +0400
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ОК, sorry. That's different story.

But what do you except from storing block device images of filesystem?
I think, more interesting is creating some kind of filesystem to be
running under xen kernel (in PV environment) to support block device
resizing without huge overhead... (somethink like xenballoon for
filesystem).

В Вск, 29/08/2010 в 15:30 +0000, Adrian Costin пишет:
> NexentaStor is an open source project that's basically an OpenSolaris 
> distribution installed on commodity hardware. More information here:
> 
> http://www.nexentastor.org/
> 
> Best regards,
> Adrian Costin
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-api-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-api-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of George Shuklin
> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 6:24 PM
> To: xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-API] [XCP] Looking to sponsor someone to create a new SR
> 
> I think, in this case Nexenta (or who produce those storage) may be main 
> target to ask to implement.
> 
> В Вск, 29/08/2010 в 15:16 +0000, Adrian Costin пишет:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > We’re planning on deploying a few servers using XCP and NexentaStor 
> > for ISCSI based storage. We’ve looked at using the lvmoiscsi model, 
> > however it doesn’t take advantage of all the ZFS features. Also if we 
> > use the LUNperVDI driver we will have tons of SR (one per VM) which 
> > will be too complicated to manage, not to mention the fact that 
> > snapshotting and cloning VDIs will have to be handled manually.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Nexenta comes with a HTTP based API so I think creating a SR for it 
> > will be fairly easy. I found the following documentation on creating a 
> > SR for XCP and the NexentaStor API documentation:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > http://www.xen.org/files/XenCloud/storage.pdf
> > 
> > http://www.nexenta.com/static/NexentaStor-API.html
> > 
> > http://www.nexenta.com/static/NexentaStor-API.html
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Since I’m only a Python beginner and also don’t have a lot of time on 
> > my hands currently, I’m wondering if someone would be interested in 
> > taking on this project and releasing the work as Open Source. I know 
> > this is not on XCP’s roadmap so we are looking at sponsoring the 
> > project. We can also provide a test/development environment (XCP 
> > server and NexentaStor server) for the interested party.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Adrian Costin
> > 
> >  
> > 
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