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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi all:<br> I want to know whether the backend-group concept have been discussed or have other recommendations to us?<br> The backend-group concept means can be regarded as a mechanism to manage same type cinder backends .<br>(backend-group concept like nova Aggregate. The Falvor in Nova correspond to VolumeType in Cinder)<br>While backends are visible to users, backend-group are only visible to admin.<br> <br> We can use this mechanism dynamic to add/delete one backend form backend-group without restarting volume services.<br> <br> User case 1:<br> The backends in backend-group-1 have SSD disk, more memory . The backend-group-1 can provide higher performance to user.<br> The other backends in backend-group-2 have HHD disk, more capacity. The backend-group-2 can provide more storage space to user .<br> User case 2:<br> The backend-group is set with specific metadata/extra-spec (capability), Each node can have multiple backend-group, each backend-group<br>can have multiple key-value pairs, and the same key-value pair can be assigned to multiple backend-group. This information can be used in<br>the scheduler to enable advanced scheduling,<br> scheduler will select the backends from backend-group only.<br> <br> <br> <br> Thanks<br> </div></body>
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