RE: [Xen-API] RE: Questions about the api

[Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
 
Julian wrote:
...
> I've thought for a while that it
> would be beneficial to store more metadata persistently within the SR
> itself, to make it more portable and to overcome synchronisation issues
> like this. This was the original intention for the MGT volume in LVHD.

It would be great to store stuff like VDI name_labels and VM metadata snapshots 
for DR. We should definitely do some more thinking about this.

Dave wrote (about the snapshot VDI fields)
...
> > We should consider allowing the backend to read/write these fields.
> > There's already precedent for that kind of thing: the backend can call
> > VDI.set_virtual_size but it looks read/only to everyone else.
> >
> I would be strongly in favour of this also.

Great. I think once we've branched for the next release we could make this 
happen in XCP unstable.

Cheers,
Dave


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