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On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Stuart Fox <stuart at demonware.net> wrote:

> This sounds cool but wouldn't it put cinder in the data path if you are
> replicating across vendors?
>

​Agreed, this is the challenge, and I'm leaning towards not going the
"cross vendor" path at this time.  Wondering if this is a deal breaker for
people?

Thanks,
John​

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> BR,
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> Stuart
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> On 14-07-28 3:01 PM gustavo panizzo (gfa) wrote:
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>  On 07/26/2014 11:28 AM, John Griffith wrote:
> > Hey OS-Operators,
> >
> > There are two features being worked on currently that I'd love to get
> > some feedback on:
> >
> > 1. Replication
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>  i would like to Cinder to be able to replicate data between different
> backend storages.
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>  sometimes your DR site does not have the same storage backend as your
> primary site, this is common when you rent the DR site.
> the usual workaround for this is restore from backup over the DR
> storage, which is painful and slow.
>
>  ideally i would have a Fast dedicated storage on primary site and a
> bunch of lun(s) attached to a box with iscsi+lvm to provide volumes to
> compute nodes.
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>  if i have storage from the same 'vendor' on both sites that's great!
> cinder could offload data replication to vendor's appliance
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>  i know is a pony what i'm asking for, but i would really make a
> difference
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