[pve-devel] FreeNAS storage plugin

Michael Rasmussen mir at datanom.net
Fri May 26 18:20:16 CEST 2017


Yes, I intend to upstream this plugin.

On May 26, 2017 9:09:33 AM GMT+02:00, "Fabian Grünbichler" <f.gruenbichler at proxmox.com> wrote:
>On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:58:28PM +0200, datanom.net wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have started developing a storage plugin for FreeNAS which uses the
>> FreeNAS REST API.
>> I have tested this using a combination of Postman, iscsi_discovery,
>and
>> iscsi-inq and everything seems to work perfectly. Using the REST API
>also
>> circumvent the limitations in CLD because with the API you create a
>target
>> group for every VM which can hold up to 25 LUNs (I think 25 LUNs for
>each VM
>> is sufficient).
>> 
>> In stead of extending the current ZFS_over_iSCSI plugin I would
>prefer
>> making a stand-alone plugin named FreeNAS. Any objection to this
>decision?
>
>if you do all the operations (like create a snapshot, allocate a
>volume,
>...) over the REST API, shoe-horning that into the existing
>ZFS-over-SSH approach of the ZFS-over-iSCSI plugin does not make much
>sense IMHO ;)
>
>is your plan to upstream this, or will you just publish it as custom
>storage plugin?
>
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