Feature #1154

image/transfer driver for qcow2 and multiple datastore

Added by Chris Johnston over 9 years ago. Updated over 9 years ago.

Status:ClosedStart date:03/02/2012
Priority:NormalDue date:
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Category:Drivers - Auth
Target version:Release 3.4
Resolution:fixed Pull request:

Description

The attached qcow2+mds.tar.gz provides image/transfer drivers for qcow2 and multiple datastore. The primary purpose for these drivers was to provide qcow2 thin cloning and multiple datastore support. For our use cases the drivers work perfectly with 3.0.

These drivers change datastore pathing (see attached image). On the frontend, datastores are mounted under /srv/datastore/${GNAME} where GNAME is the same as VDC. On hosts, its assumed a host belongs to a single VDC, the specific datastore is mounted as /srv/vm.

The image driver (mds) supports both url and file based images and will place images into the appropriate datastore. Note the mkfs script has never been implemented and will simply log and exit.

The transfer manager (qcow2) thin cloning reduces VM provisioning to seconds and saves significant storage. Any 'saveas' operations converts the thin clone back to a full image before copying back into the image repository. Persistent VMs, just like the nfs/shared transfer manager, is a symlink. Portions of the driver borrow from the ssh driver.

qcow2_mds.tar.gz - code (3.31 KB) Chris Johnston, 03/02/2012 03:27 PM

qcow2_msd.png - image (32 KB) Chris Johnston, 03/02/2012 03:27 PM

Associated revisions

Revision 63f03bbe
Added by Jaime Melis over 9 years ago

Feature #1154: image/transfer driver for qcow2 and multiple datastore

History

#1 Updated by Ruben S. Montero over 9 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • Target version set to Release 3.4
  • Resolution set to fixed

Available in 3.4 beta...

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