[Openstack] Which volume API in Nova ?

John Griffith john.griffith at solidfire.com
Tue Sep 11 16:42:18 UTC 2012


On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Day, Phil <philip.day at hp.com> wrote:

>  Thanks Vish,****
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> So are both maintained at present – for example if there was a bug fix to
> volume creation would it be applied to the VolumeController in both places ?
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> I’m just trying to work out how best to provide compatibility as we roll
> forwards – seems like for some period we may need to have both the compute
> extension and the Volume API server running.****
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> Phil****
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> *From:* Vishvananda Ishaya [mailto:vishvananda at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 10 September 2012 18:08
> *To:* Day, Phil
> *Cc:* openstack at lists.launchpad.net (openstack at lists.launchpad.net) (
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> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Which volume API in Nova ?****
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> Prior to creating our own endpoint for volumes inside of nova (one of the
> first steps in the transition that happened right before the essex
> release), volume control was done by compute extensions. We left these
> extensions in case anyone was using them. They should be roughly
> functionally equivalent, but the compute extension is located at:****
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> http://host:8774/os-volumes (host and port of the compute endpoint)****
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> and the volume api is at:****
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> http://host:8776/volumes (host and port of the volume endpoint)****
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> Vish****
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> On Sep 10, 2012, at 8:34 AM, "Day, Phil" <philip.day at hp.com> wrote:****
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> Hi Folks,****
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> I know things are in transition right now from Nova to Cinder, but can
> someone shed light on the difference between
> “api.openstack.compute.contrib.volumes” and “api.openstack.volume” ?    **
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> Thanks****
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> Phil****
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> Hey Phil,

You would probably want to move off of the extensions if you're in a
position to make that sort of change.  Also keep in mind the switch to the
Cinder volume service after Folsom.  It may be worth looking at this now
rather than waiting.

John
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