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Migrate - move between backends of the same volume type
Retype - move between types. Will migrate the volume for you if necessary

On 1 March 2015 at 09:40, Avishay Traeger <avishay at stratoscale.com> wrote:

> Nikesh,
> The case you are trying is supposed to fail.  You have a volume of type
> dothill_realstor1 which is defined to say "this volume must be on backend
> DotHill_RealStor1".  This is a requirement that you defined for that
> volume.  Now you want to migrate it to realstor2, which is a violation of
> the requirement that you specified.  To migrate it, you should change the
> volume type (retype), which changes the requirement.
>
> Thanks,
> Avishay
>
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Nikesh Kumar Mahalka <
> nikeshmahalka at vedams.com> wrote:
>
>> I tried below link  for volume migration on my driver and also similar
>> efforts for LVM.
>> Even whatever documents available in openstack for
>> volume-migration,each one showing volume migration of a volume having
>> volume type None
>>
>> I added host assisted volume migration function in my cinder driver.
>> When i am trying volume migration on a volume without volume type,then
>> my volume migration function is getting called and i  am able to do
>> volume migration.
>>
>> But when i am trying volume migration on a volume having volume
>> type,then my volume migration function is not getting called.
>>
>>
>> http://paste.openstack.org/show/183392/
>> http://paste.openstack.org/show/183405/
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Nikesh Kumar Mahalka
>> <nikeshmahalka at vedams.com> wrote:
>> > do cinder retype (v2) works for lvm?
>> > How to use cinder retype?
>> >
>> > I tried for volume migration from one volume-type LVM backend to
>> > another volume-type LVM backend.But its failed.
>> > How can i acheive this?
>> >
>> > Similarly i am writing a cinder volume driver for my array and want to
>> > migrate volume from one volume type to another volume type for my
>> > array backends.
>> > so want to know how can i achieve this in cinder driver?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Nikesh
>>
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