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Hi Gary,
I notice a new blueprint is opened last night by somebody, which is very
similar with my question.
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/driver-specific-snapshot
Could you please have a quick look and share your position for this
blueprint? Thanks!


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Gary Kotton <gkotton at vmware.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> This is something that would be nice to add as an extension. At the moment
> it is not part of our near term development plans. It would be nice to
> engage the community to discuss and see how this can be exposed correctly
> using the Nova API's. It may be something worthwhile discussing at the up
> and coming summit.
> Thanks
> Gary
>
> From: Qin Zhao <chaochin at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <
> openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 2:05 PM
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <
> openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][VMWare] VMware VM snapshot
>
> What I mean is the snapshot of vsphere, which is describe in this page -->
> http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50%2FGUID-CA948C69-7F58-4519-AEB1-739545EA94E5.html
>
> It is very useful, if the user plan to perform some risky operations in a
> VM. I am not quite sure if we can model it in Nova, and let the user to
> create snapshot chain via Nova api. Has it been discussed in design session
> or mail group? Anybody know that?
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 6:40 PM, John Garbutt <john at johngarbutt.com>wrote:
>
>> On 25 February 2014 09:27, Qin Zhao <chaochin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > One simple question about VCenter driver. I feel the VM snapshot
>> function of
>> > VCenter is very useful and is loved by VCenter users. Does anybody think
>> > about to let VCenter driver support it?
>>
>> It depends if that can be modelled well with the current
>> Nova/Cinder/Glance primitives.
>>
>> If you do boot from volume, and you see the volume snapshots, and they
>> behave how cinder expects, and you can model that snapshot as an image
>> in glance that you can boot new instances from, then maybe it would
>> work just fine. But we need to take care not to bend the current API
>> primitives too far out of place.
>>
>> I remember there being some talk about this at the last summit. How did
>> that go?
>>
>> John
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