[one-users] Local storage on the node (lvm, etc)

Pentium100 pentium100 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 21 01:02:42 PDT 2013


Hello again,

Could I have the customized TM, please?


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Maxence Dunnewind <
maxence.dunnewind at inria.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > As far as I understand the documentation, it looks like all storage
> options
> > for OpenNebula are shared - ceph, iSCSI, nfs, cLVM.
>
> No, you can also use filesystem DS in combination with ssh TM for exemple.
>
> > However, configuring the storage locally on the node would allow for
> better
> > performance (especially if using SSDs), even though the VM then would not
> > be fault tolerant (node goes down, so does the storage for the VM). On
> the
> > other hand it would still be possible to migrate the VM, assuming the
> > original node is up (by copying the data to the new node).
>
> I customized the TM (see http://blog.opennebula.org/?p=4002 ), so that
> image is
> copied from "remote" storage (could be ssh or nfs) to the local LVM. I
> still
> plan to publish these patch, even if they are based on 3.6, so I'll
> probably
> first update them so that they work on 4.x.
>
> > Is there a way to configure OpenNebula to use local logical volumes as a
> > datastore? Create the lv on the node, boot the VM, if nned be create the
> lv
> > on another node, migrate the VM.
>
> If you join OpenNebulaConf in Berlin, I'll give a talk about it Thursday
> afternoon (http://opennebulaconf.com/schedule/), I'll be happy to discuss
> it
> with you.
>
> In a nutshell, you can basically use filesystem DS with a customized
> version
> of ssh TM which creates LV on the flight.
>
> Maxence
>
> --
> Maxence Dunnewind <maxence.dunnewind at inria.fr>
> Engineer - System administrator on BonFIRE, Eco2Clouds and Grid5000
> projects
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>
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