Hi, Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but do Sun''s new Amber road storage boxes have any kind of integration with ESX? Most importantly, quiescing the VMs, before snapshotting the zvols, and/or some level of management integration thru either the web UI or ESX''s console ? If there''s nothing official, did anyone hack any scripts for that? Regards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20081124/e7434534/attachment.html>
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Ahmed Kamal < email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com> wrote:> Hi, > Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but do Sun''s new Amber road > storage boxes have any kind of integration with ESX? Most importantly, > quiescing the VMs, before snapshotting the zvols, and/or some level of > management integration thru either the web UI or ESX''s console ? If there''s > nothing official, did anyone hack any scripts for that? > > Regards >It can be scripted, no there''s no integration. If there were it would have to be a client-side/esx service console application. --Tim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20081124/1dea197b/attachment.html>
On Nov 24, 2008, at 17:32, Tim wrote:> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Ahmed Kamal < > email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com> wrote: >> > >> Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but do Sun''s new Amber >> road >> storage boxes have any kind of integration with ESX? Most >> importantly, >> quiescing the VMs, before snapshotting the zvols, and/or some level >> of >> management integration thru either the web UI or ESX''s console ? If >> there''s >> nothing official, did anyone hack any scripts for that? > > It can be scripted, no there''s no integration. If there were it > would have > to be a client-side/esx service console application.There is a command-line interface to the systems, so if you could configure SSH keys (or an expect script?), then you could set up a cron job on your guest to of some kind to go an and do a snapshot once you''ve determined that things are quiet. There''s a VMware image of the Amber Road OS that you can play with ("Get Sun Unified Storage Simulator"; 495.30 MB): http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/unified_storage/resources.jsp
Hi Ahmed I''m part of the team that is working on such integration and snapshot integration (and SRM) is definitely on the roadmap. Right now, there is nothing official, but as other have mentioned, some simple scripting wouldn''t be too hard. I like to use the Remote Command Line appliance and runs my scripts from there. Makes it easy to have one location to quiesce the VMs, run the ssh script to snap the 7000 (AmberRoad) array and then return the VMs to full operation. Stay tuned for lots of work in this area. -ryan Ahmed Kamal wrote:> Hi, > Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but do Sun''s new Amber road > storage boxes have any kind of integration with ESX? Most importantly, > quiescing the VMs, before snapshotting the zvols, and/or some level of > management integration thru either the web UI or ESX''s console ? If > there''s nothing official, did anyone hack any scripts for that? > > Regards > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
Will this be for Sun''s xVM Server as well as for ESX? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Ross wrote:> Will this be for Sun''s xVM Server as well as for ESX? >That would be the goal. I will just depend on what features/APIs are available and when. -ryan -- Ryan Arneson Sun Microsystems, Inc. 303-223-6264 ryan.arneson at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/rarneson