[one-users] TransportManager for SAN storage, VMs in clvm, templates in GFS2 volume

[Steven Timm]

This is very interesting work.  Jan, do you have any write-up on how
you were able to set up the gfs and clvm setup to work with this driver? 
It's a use case very similar to what we are considering for FermiCloud.

Two other questions that weren't immediately obvious from looking
at the code:

1) with this driver, could the OpenNebula head node itself be
a (static) virtual machine?  Looks like yes, but I want to be sure.

2) How is the notion of an image repository handled--does
openNebula copy the OS image from a separate image repository
every time the VM is instantiated, or is the repository defined
to be the place that the OS image lives on disk?

Steve Timm




On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Borja Sotomayor wrote:

> Hi Jan,
>
>> I call this transfer manager drive **gfs2clvm** and made it (even in
>> current development state - but most of the functions works
>> already) available on github:
>> https://github.com/jhrcz/opennebula-tm-gfs2clvm
>>
>> if anyone is interrested, wants to contribute and help, please contact me.
>
> A good way to get more people involved and interested would be to add
> it to our ecosystem catalog:
>
>    http://www.opennebula.org/software:ecosystem
>
> gfs2clvm definitely sounds like a good candidate for inclusion in the
> ecosystem. If you are interested, you can find instructions here:
>
>    http://www.opennebula.org/community:ecosystem
>
> You're also welcome to write about gfs2clvm on our blog
> (http://blog.opennebula.org/). If you're interested, just drop me a
> line off-list and I'll set you up with an account.
>
> Cheers!
> -- 
> Borja Sotomayor
>
>  Researcher, Computation Institute
>  Lecturer, Department of Computer Science
>  University of Chicago
>  http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~borja/
>
>  Community Manager, OpenNebula project
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