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Hello,

Thank you ! nice :)
I'm really impatient to test cinder with NetApp device (soon it will be).

In the documentation :
http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/boot-from-volume.html
The process is quite painful   ...

Regards,

2013/1/29 Avishay Traeger <AVISHAY at il.ibm.com>:
> Benoit,
>
> openstack-bounces+avishay=il.ibm.com at lists.launchpad.net wrote on
> 01/29/2013 10:56:33 AM:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have an openstack installation with 1 controller node, 1 network
>> node and 2 compute node, configured with GRE tunnel for the network,
>> and NFS backend for volumes.
>>
>> I'd like to create a bootable cinder volume from a glance image to
>> have persistant disque for VMs, and tests live migration in this
>> setup.
>>
>> But when I ask cinder to create a volume from a image, cinder report
>> "not supported" ... And I have look into the code, it's seems to be
>> supportend only with Ceph/Rados or Iscsi driver.
>>
>> So I have many questions :
>> - Any plan to support it for other driver/setupe like :  NetAppIscsi
>> (or netappNFS Driver) ; NFS driver   ?
>
> I have a patch submitted that will implement this for all iSCSI drivers:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/19808/
> I don't know about NetApp's plans for other drivers.
>
>> - Any simple way to create a bootable cinder volume from the
>> controller node shell ?  (In the doc I must mount the volume on a VM
>> ... create partition .. copy data and so on ; lots of manipulation..)
>
> I don't understand this question.
>
>> And of course, I have the same question for cinder snapshot.
>>
>> Thank you in advance !
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Benoit
>
> Thanks,
> Avishay
>



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