VMware: Support for Virtual Volumes
Virtual Volumes is a new virtual machine disk management and integration
framework that exposes virtual disks as primary unit of data management for
storage arrays. This new framework enables array-based operations at the virtual
disk level that can be precisely aligned to application boundaries.
Virtual Volumes virtualizes SAN and NAS devices by abstracting physical hardware
resources into logical pools of capacity (represented as Virtual Datastore in
vSphere) that can be more flexibly consumed and configured to span a portion of,
one or several storage arrays.
To enable efficient storage operations at scale, Virtual Volumes uses vSphere
Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM)
The VMware driver in Nova already supports SPBM, so we only need to make it
aware of Virtual Datastores which has type "VVOL".
References:
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Started
- Approver:
- John Garbutt
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- Radoslav Gerganov
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Radoslav Gerganov
- Definition:
- Pending Approval
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Beta Available
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Radoslav Gerganov
- Completed by
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I think this really needs a nova-spec before we can approve it, please submit a nova-spec for mitaka. --johnthetubaguy 13th October 2015
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As there is no code up for review, removing this blueprint from mitaka, as part of the non-priority Feature Freeze. For more details please see: http://
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