[one-users] Datastore questions

[Tino Vazquez]

Hi Michael,

That is a very good question indeed ;) In fact, we had that feature
(multiple system datastores [1]) scheduled for 4.2 (Flame), but we
want to test it more thoroughly, so we delayed it for 4.4.

Best,

-Tino

[1] http://dev.opennebula.org/issues/1712
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Michael Curran
<michael.curran at connectsolutions.com> wrote:
> Hello –
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> This is a generalized question about the system datastore and the images
> datastore
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> In OpenNebula – you store all your running VM’s in the system datastore ,
> and images in the aptly named images datastore.  I am using it on top of
> VMware, with SAN attached storage. In my test environment for this it is not
> an issue, there will never be more environments than I have room for in my
> system datastore
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> Now the tricky part of this question – my current production environment is
> made up of anywhere from 4 – 10 ESXi hosts in a VMware cluster (depending on
> location) and I have no less than 30 LUNS attached as Datastores for vmware
> – since it can see and use each of them individually on all nodes in the
> cluster
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> When the time comes to stand up my production Opennebula I will be building
> it on top of the existing environment, but I will not be destroying any
> current VM’s – especially since VMware created VM’s and OpenNebula created
> VM’s can co-exist on the same set of infrastructure
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> Why has ON been limited to 1 system Datastore? Why can’t it take advantage
> of whatever storage is attached to the ESXi hosts and I choose the DS it
> goes onto. Presently the way its built, I would have to stand up one ON
> server per DS for VM’s and share the same images DS – that seems a bit
> cumbersome to manage and also a waste of resources. Also if you outgrow your
> system datastore, you can just grow it once created at a HW raid level – it
> has to be destroyed to be expanded – I should just be able to add storage
> and take advantage of the extra datastores for adding new VM’s to run on.
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> Am I just reading the documentation wrong?
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> Michael Curran | connectsolutions | Lead Network Architect
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> Phone 614.568.2285 | Mobile 614.403.6320 | www.connectsolutions.com
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