[Openstack-devel] XCP storage repository for OpenStack?

[Thomas Goirand]

On 02/09/2013 01:04 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> Looking in this document, it mentions that XCP should be configured to
> use `EXT' rather than LVM for the storage repository:
> 
> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/install/apt/openstack-install-guide-apt-trunk.pdf
> 
> However, looking at xen-api.git/debian/README.Debian, I notice this at
> the beginning:
> 
> "This is the XCP toolstack ported to Debian. Installing these packages
> will turn
> a Debian system into an XCP virtualization host. While we aim to be
> functionally equivalent to a standard XCP system, not all features are
> currently ported to Debian. Noteably, block-based storage repositories have
> been disabled.
>  -- Jon Ludlam <jonathan.ludlam at eu.citrix.com>  Thu, 07 Jul 2011
> 21:50:18 +0100"

Jon Ludlam is the upstream author for the storage part of XCP, so I
guess he knows what he's talking about, even though he might not express
himself clearly enough.

> The comment about `block-based' storage repositories is still true?  Is
> this a reference to the `EXT' SR required for OpenStack?

I'm not sure what he's talking about when saying "block-based" (if this
means LVM or not...). But for sure, the EXT storage is there. That's
what I used.

Thomas