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The future
integration points for
oVirt storage
Birds of a feather session
Sean Cohen, Ayal Baron
Red Hat
KVM Forum, October 2013
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Agenda

What's new in oVirt 3.3 Storage?

Storage directions

Software Defned Storage

Storage Ofoading

IO Performance

Repication

!he f"t"re integration points for oVirt Storage

Openstac#

DRD$

%&tending oVIrt 'PI

3.( ) $e*ond
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What's new in oVirt 3.3 Storage?
Business Continuity:

$ac#"p and Restore 'PI for Independent Software Ve

ndors
(3.3.2)

+anage Storage ,onnections -+"tipath ) DR.(3.3.1)

Disk Management:

%na/e onine 0irt"a dri0e resi1e

Virtio2S,SI s"pport

Dis#s $oc# 'ignment scan

Dis# 3oo#s -for dis# hot2p"g4"np"g.

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Storage directions
Sotware De!ned Storage "SDS#

5"ster6S nati0e storage domain in oVirt 3.3

,on0erged Storage 3*per0isor 0ision -sef hosted.

Storage $%oading:

&i'StorageMgmt integration

'/iit* to p"gin e&terna storage arra* into

oVirt4VDS+ 0irt"ai1ation stac#7 in a 0endor
ne"tra wa*

,an pro0ide 'rra* Ofoad capa/iities7 s"ch as

Snapshots4,ones7 &,op*
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Storage directions
&i'StorageMgmt
Storage $%oading

Open so"rce7 0endor agnostic

i/rar* which pro0ides an 'PI
for managing e&terna storage
arra*s

,"rrent arra* s"pport -0ar*ing

e0es of f"nctionait*.

8in"& software target

S+I2I compiant arra*s

-9et'pp7 %+, etc.
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Storage directions
Storage $%oading:

$(enStack C)nder integration

Storage ofoad /* design

8i/S+ Dri0er

%&isting %co S*stem

)$ *erormance:

On 3*per0isors r"nning m"tipe V+s a writes

end "p Random

$ad for:

SSD

S+R

Storage +e(,ication directions

Array Based

3.3 DR s"pport 0ia +anage Storage ,onnections

Distri'uted

5"ster

,eph

DR$D

-y(er.isor 'ased

;%+<2=V+

Cinder?
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/uture integration (oints

$(enStack Storage stack integration

5ance 2 cons"med in oVirt 3.3

,inder

,ons"me

Pro0ide

01tending oVirt A*)

oVirt third2part* <I p"g2in framewor#:

9et'pp V,S >.? integration a0aia/e for oVirt 3.@

oVirt $ac#"p ) Restore 'PI ne&t phases:

8e0erage Aem"2Aa +icrosoft Windows Vo"me

Shadow ,op* Ser0ice -VSS.

8e0erage Aem" /oc# a*er ,hange $oc# !rac#ing

-,$!. to co0er incrementa /ac#"ps.
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3.2 3 Beyond

5et rid of Storage Poo +anager

Proper iS,SI2m"tipathing

Singe dis# snapshots

Import e&isting storage domain

Read2on* dis#s

S"pport V+ 6eecing -Aem"2#0m48i/0irt.

Snapshots 8i0e +erge

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