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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4B4B4B">Hello, guys!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
We are currently making an installation of XS6.5+OS Juno (maybe we'll switch to kilo)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
We have 2 servers, controller has<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><code><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#DD1144;border:solid #E1E1E8 1.0pt;padding:2.0pt;background:#F7F7F9">glance, nova and keystone</span></code><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4B4B4B">,
and compute vms have only<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><code><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#DD1144;border:solid #E1E1E8 1.0pt;padding:2.0pt;background:#F7F7F9">nova-compute</span></code><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4B4B4B"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4B4B4B">installed.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
We use local storage on each server, not shared one (this is important)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4B4B4B">We want to implement<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><code><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#DD1144;border:solid #E1E1E8 1.0pt;padding:2.0pt;background:#F7F7F9">cinder</span></code><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4B4B4B"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4B4B4B">service
to manage volumes easily, but i can't understand how can we do it.</span><code><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#DD1144;border:solid #E1E1E8 1.0pt;padding:2.0pt;background:#F7F7F9">XenAPINFSDriver</span></code><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4B4B4B"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4B4B4B">is
deprecated and isn't supported any more.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
The only solution i found so far is to create storage VM, give it some space and use this space for cinder volumes, and then mount it in VMs as ISCSI targets.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
And in the same time nova uses xenAPI to create and manage volumes when it creates instances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4B4B4B">And what i want to make is to make cinder use Xenserver volumes both when nova creates VM and when i create volume with cinder.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
Without second level of abstraction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4B4B4B">Can you tell me what are the best practices to use cinder for Xenservers with local storage?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:RU">Regards, <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:RU">Ivan Derbenev<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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