Dynamic Primary Storage for VMware and KVM

[ch...@zv.fraunhofer.de]

Hi all,

I searched through the documentation to find some more information about how to provide dynamic primary storage for VMware vspehere 5.5 and KVM, but didn’t found a good hint.

Can somebody tell me how I can setup dynamic primary storage for vmware and kvm and what kind of storage system is needed?
If I understood it right SolidFire is a good candidate for it, but are there any other storage systems which do support this feature or is it even possible to use it with any kind of nfs storage?

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards
Christian

Re: Dynamic Primary Storage for VMware and KVM

[ch...@zv.fraunhofer.de]

Hi,

I was referring to the cloudstack documentation (working with storage -> best practices for primary storage).
According to this topic dynamic primary storage is a model where a ccp disk has a one to one matching to a volume in the primary storage.

Here is is the abstract from the documentation:
"Dynamic: This is a newer way for CloudStack to manage storage. In this model, a storage system (rather than a preallocated amount of storage) is given to CloudStack. CloudStack, working in concert with a storage plug-in, dynamically creates volumes on the storage system and each volume on the storage system maps to a single CloudStack volume. This is highly useful for features such as storage Quality of Service. Currently this feature is supported for data disks (Disk Offerings).”

Regards
Christian

> On 08 Dec 2015, at 14:23, Simon Weller <sw...@ena.com> wrote:
> 
> Christian,
> 
> So when you say dynamic storage, are you just referring to storage that can grow as your requirements change?
> 
> If so, there are many options. I can't speak for VMware, but I can for KVM:
> 
> NFS
> Ceph (using RBD)
> Solidfire
> Nexenta
> Cloudbyte
> Various SANs via either a mount point or CLVM clustering
> 
> - Si
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: christian.kirmse@zv.fraunhofer.de <ch...@zv.fraunhofer.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 3:42 AM
> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: Dynamic Primary Storage for VMware and KVM
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I searched through the documentation to find some more information about how to provide dynamic primary storage for VMware vspehere 5.5 and KVM, but didn’t found a good hint.
> 
> Can somebody tell me how I can setup dynamic primary storage for vmware and kvm and what kind of storage system is needed?
> If I understood it right SolidFire is a good candidate for it, but are there any other storage systems which do support this feature or is it even possible to use it with any kind of nfs storage?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Kind Regards
> Christian

Re: Dynamic Primary Storage for VMware and KVM

[Simon Weller <sw...@ena.com>]

Christian,

So when you say dynamic storage, are you just referring to storage that can grow as your requirements change?

If so, there are many options. I can't speak for VMware, but I can for KVM:

NFS
Ceph (using RBD)
Solidfire
Nexenta
Cloudbyte
Various SANs via either a mount point or CLVM clustering

- Si

________________________________________
From: christian.kirmse@zv.fraunhofer.de <ch...@zv.fraunhofer.de>
Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 3:42 AM
To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Dynamic Primary Storage for VMware and KVM

Hi all,

I searched through the documentation to find some more information about how to provide dynamic primary storage for VMware vspehere 5.5 and KVM, but didn’t found a good hint.

Can somebody tell me how I can setup dynamic primary storage for vmware and kvm and what kind of storage system is needed?
If I understood it right SolidFire is a good candidate for it, but are there any other storage systems which do support this feature or is it even possible to use it with any kind of nfs storage?

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards
Christian