Storage

[Chitra Manjunath <Ch...@infosys.com>]

Hi All,

I have a fcsan lun have been used by an exist  VMware vSphere 5.1 platform as a datastore, and
there are lots of available space in this datastore, so I want to use these space and make it as secondary storage.

Will the Cloudstack permit to use an existing space on the Vmware datacenter for storage if yes, How to give the size for the secondary storage or it will take the default free space?

Using local storage for primary storage.

Please suggest on this
It's very urgent.

Thanks & Regards
Chitra.M


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Re: Storage

[Dean Kamali <de...@gmail.com>]

I guess I could be wrong if I assume that your SAN doesn't support NFS, so
I suggest you to provision new lun, and export the volume via NFSv3

What type of fcSAN are you using? Dell? HP?



On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Musayev, Ilya <im...@webmd.net> wrote:

> Presently, secondary datastore is only supported as NFS (and not VMFS) -
> primary can be VMFS.
>
> You can use the remaining space on secondary datastore, but you will need
> to present the VMFS space as NFS - which in simplest terms mean install a
> linux instance on that datastore, allocate desired amount of space and make
> it the NFS server.
>
> If this is proof-of-concept type of work, then I would use the same VM as
> CloudStack Management as well NFS - all on one type of setup.
>
> Regards
> ilya
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chitra Manjunath [mailto:Chitra_Manjunath@infosys.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 12:39 AM
> > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> > Subject: Storage
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a fcsan lun have been used by an exist  VMware vSphere 5.1
> platform
> > as a datastore, and there are lots of available space in this datastore,
> so I
> > want to use these space and make it as secondary storage.
> >
> > Will the Cloudstack permit to use an existing space on the Vmware
> > datacenter for storage if yes, How to give the size for the secondary
> storage
> > or it will take the default free space?
> >
> > Using local storage for primary storage.
> >
> > Please suggest on this
> > It's very urgent.
> >
> > Thanks & Regards
> > Chitra.M
> >
> >
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RE: Storage

["Musayev, Ilya" <im...@webmd.net>]

Presently, secondary datastore is only supported as NFS (and not VMFS) - primary can be VMFS. 

You can use the remaining space on secondary datastore, but you will need to present the VMFS space as NFS - which in simplest terms mean install a linux instance on that datastore, allocate desired amount of space and make it the NFS server.

If this is proof-of-concept type of work, then I would use the same VM as CloudStack Management as well NFS - all on one type of setup.

Regards
ilya 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chitra Manjunath [mailto:Chitra_Manjunath@infosys.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 12:39 AM
> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: Storage
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a fcsan lun have been used by an exist  VMware vSphere 5.1 platform
> as a datastore, and there are lots of available space in this datastore, so I
> want to use these space and make it as secondary storage.
> 
> Will the Cloudstack permit to use an existing space on the Vmware
> datacenter for storage if yes, How to give the size for the secondary storage
> or it will take the default free space?
> 
> Using local storage for primary storage.
> 
> Please suggest on this
> It's very urgent.
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> Chitra.M
> 
> 
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