[jira] [Commented] (CLOUDSTACK-8341) [GSoC 2015] Enable snapshots to be taken on primary storage for ESXi using managed storage

["Pierre-Luc Dion (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Pierre-Luc Dion commented on CLOUDSTACK-8341:
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[~mike-tutkowski] does this work got completed and in fact this Jira issue could be close ?

thanks!

> [GSoC 2015] Enable snapshots to be taken on primary storage for ESXi using managed storage
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CLOUDSTACK-8341
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-8341
>             Project: CloudStack
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>      Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the default.) 
>          Components: Management Server, VMware
>    Affects Versions: Future, 4.6.0
>         Environment: All OSes the CloudStack Management Server is expected to run on.
>            Reporter: Mike Tutkowski
>            Assignee: Seif Eddine Jemli
>             Fix For: Future
>
>
> ACS users could benefit from the ability to take snapshots (for managed storage) that reside on primary storage (instead of backups that reside on secondary storage).
> Benefits could include the following:
> * Fast snapshots instead of slower backups
> * Make use of compression, de-duplication, and thin provisioning that may be supported on the primary storage
> Some work has already been done with regards to this topic using the XenServer hypervisor. However, that hypervisor currently has restrictions around immutable UUIDs on its SRs and VDIs that effectively limit the value proposition of backend snapshots.
> Let's target VMware for this feature as it has the ability to resignature its datastores and thus make effective use of backend snapshots of datastores.
> Related: https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.wssdk.pg.doc_50%2FPG_Ch8_Storage.10.9.html
> This work may entail modifying components in the management server that expect snapshots to only reside on secondary storage.
> In addition, the VMware agent code will need to be updated.
> Also, a custom snapshot strategy and a custom data motion strategy will either need to be created (or the code will have to be placed inside of an existing snapshot strategy and data motion strategy).
> Once the snapshots can be created on primary storage, we need to make sure we can create volumes and templates from them.



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