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

[Adrian Costin <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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


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[mailto:xen-api-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of George Shuklin
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 6:24 PM
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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.

Ð ÐÑÐ, 29/08/2010 Ð 15:16 +0000, Adrian Costin ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> Weâre planning on deploying a few servers using XCP and NexentaStor 
> for ISCSI based storage. Weâve looked at using the lvmoiscsi model, 
> however it doesnât 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 Iâm only a Python beginner and also donât have a lot of time on 
> my hands currently, Iâm wondering if someone would be interested in 
> taking on this project and releasing the work as Open Source. I know 
> this is not on XCPâs 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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