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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
VdsmVirtual Desktop and Server Management DaemonKVM Forum 2011, Vancouver
Red Hat
Dan Kenigsberg
August 15, 2011
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DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Agenda
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
What is Vdsm?
Vdsm is a node management API.
High level API for managing ahypervisor node.
Abstracts low level details of underlying Linuxenvironments
Today: RHEL-5 RHEL6 RHEV-HTomorrow: Fedora and other Linux distros (patcheswelcome)
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
What is Vdsm?
Vdsm is a node management API.
High level API for managing ahypervisor node.
Abstracts low level details of underlying Linuxenvironments
Today: RHEL-5 RHEL6 RHEV-HTomorrow: Fedora and other Linux distros (patcheswelcome)
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 3 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
What is Vdsm?
Vdsm is a node management API.
High level API for managing ahypervisor node.
Abstracts low level details of underlying Linuxenvironments
Today: RHEL-5 RHEL6 RHEV-HTomorrow: Fedora and other Linux distros (patcheswelcome)
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
What is Vdsm?
Vdsm is a node management API.
High level API for managing ahypervisor node.
Abstracts low level details of underlying Linuxenvironments
Today: RHEL-5 RHEL6 RHEV-HTomorrow: Fedora and other Linux distros (patcheswelcome)
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 3 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
What is Vdsm?
Vdsm is a node management API.
High level API for managing ahypervisor node.
Abstracts low level details of underlying Linuxenvironments
Today: RHEL-5 RHEL6 RHEV-HTomorrow: Fedora and other Linux distros (patcheswelcome)
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 3 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Vdsm Responsibilities
VM lifecycle (libvirt + guest agent).
Host bootstrap/registration.
Monitoring host and VMs.
Network configuration.
Storage management.
Policy management
schedulerksmthin provisioning (“a running VM should keep running”)storage/network/cpu QoSbalooning.
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Vdsm Responsibilities
VM lifecycle (libvirt + guest agent).
Host bootstrap/registration.
Monitoring host and VMs.
Network configuration.
Storage management.
Policy management
schedulerksmthin provisioning (“a running VM should keep running”)storage/network/cpu QoSbalooning.
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Vdsm Responsibilities
VM lifecycle (libvirt + guest agent).
Host bootstrap/registration.
Monitoring host and VMs.
Network configuration.
Storage management.
Policy management
schedulerksmthin provisioning (“a running VM should keep running”)storage/network/cpu QoSbalooning.
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Vdsm Responsibilities
VM lifecycle (libvirt + guest agent).
Host bootstrap/registration.
Monitoring host and VMs.
Network configuration.
Storage management.
Policy management
schedulerksmthin provisioning (“a running VM should keep running”)storage/network/cpu QoSbalooning.
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Vdsm Responsibilities
VM lifecycle (libvirt + guest agent).
Host bootstrap/registration.
Monitoring host and VMs.
Network configuration.
Storage management.
Policy management
schedulerksmthin provisioning (“a running VM should keep running”)storage/network/cpu QoSbalooning.
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Vdsm Responsibilities
VM lifecycle (libvirt + guest agent).
Host bootstrap/registration.
Monitoring host and VMs.
Network configuration.
Storage management.
Policy management
schedulerksmthin provisioning (“a running VM should keep running”)storage/network/cpu QoSbalooning.
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Why Vdsm
qemu is good:$ qemu-kvm & yay! we have a virtual machine (but seethe fine print).
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.0.0 -cpu Conroe -enable-kvm -m 2048
-smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name z-win7x86-1 -uuid e3e19b36-f6b7-4ab9-b604-1f8b5c471bda
-smbios type=1,manufacturer=Red Hat,product=RHEL,version=6Server-6.1.0.2.el6_1,serial=50C1C6F0-B18B-11DE-ADF1-00215EC7FC0C_00:1A:64:E7:0E:E0,uuid=e3e19b36-f6b7-4ab9-b604-1f8b5c471bda
-nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/z-win7x86-1.monitor,server,nowait
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=2011-08-04T06:17:36 -boot
cdn -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6
-drive file=....
Libvirt is even better:To manage more than a handful of virtual machines youwould need libvirt: virsh, virt-manager.
Managing a virtualization node has much more than firingup a (K)VM.
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Why Vdsm
qemu is good:$ qemu-kvm & yay! we have a virtual machine (but seethe fine print).
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.0.0 -cpu Conroe -enable-kvm -m 2048
-smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name z-win7x86-1 -uuid e3e19b36-f6b7-4ab9-b604-1f8b5c471bda
-smbios type=1,manufacturer=Red Hat,product=RHEL,version=6Server-6.1.0.2.el6_1,serial=50C1C6F0-B18B-11DE-ADF1-00215EC7FC0C_00:1A:64:E7:0E:E0,uuid=e3e19b36-f6b7-4ab9-b604-1f8b5c471bda
-nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/z-win7x86-1.monitor,server,nowait
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=2011-08-04T06:17:36 -boot
cdn -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6
-drive file=....
Libvirt is even better:To manage more than a handful of virtual machines youwould need libvirt: virsh, virt-manager.
Managing a virtualization node has much more than firingup a (K)VM.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 5 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Why Vdsm
qemu is good:$ qemu-kvm & yay! we have a virtual machine (but seethe fine print).
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.0.0 -cpu Conroe -enable-kvm -m 2048
-smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name z-win7x86-1 -uuid e3e19b36-f6b7-4ab9-b604-1f8b5c471bda
-smbios type=1,manufacturer=Red Hat,product=RHEL,version=6Server-6.1.0.2.el6_1,serial=50C1C6F0-B18B-11DE-ADF1-00215EC7FC0C_00:1A:64:E7:0E:E0,uuid=e3e19b36-f6b7-4ab9-b604-1f8b5c471bda
-nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/z-win7x86-1.monitor,server,nowait
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=2011-08-04T06:17:36 -boot
cdn -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6
-drive file=....
Libvirt is even better:To manage more than a handful of virtual machines youwould need libvirt: virsh, virt-manager.
Managing a virtualization node has much more than firingup a (K)VM.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 5 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Why Vdsm
qemu is good:$ qemu-kvm & yay! we have a virtual machine (but seethe fine print).
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.0.0 -cpu Conroe -enable-kvm -m 2048
-smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name z-win7x86-1 -uuid e3e19b36-f6b7-4ab9-b604-1f8b5c471bda
-smbios type=1,manufacturer=Red Hat,product=RHEL,version=6Server-6.1.0.2.el6_1,serial=50C1C6F0-B18B-11DE-ADF1-00215EC7FC0C_00:1A:64:E7:0E:E0,uuid=e3e19b36-f6b7-4ab9-b604-1f8b5c471bda
-nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/z-win7x86-1.monitor,server,nowait
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=2011-08-04T06:17:36 -boot
cdn -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6
-drive file=....
Libvirt is even better:To manage more than a handful of virtual machines youwould need libvirt: virsh, virt-manager.
Managing a virtualization node has much more than firingup a (K)VM.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 5 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Why Vdsm(-18)
With thousands of machines, a cluster of hundreds of hosts,multiple storage exports — what to do?
One solution is Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV).
Vdsm is its node agent, tailored for its needs.
Agile, KVM-specific.
RHEV is being open sourced.
Vdsm is moving to a more general use case, applicable toother management platforms.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 6 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Why Vdsm(-18)
With thousands of machines, a cluster of hundreds of hosts,multiple storage exports — what to do?
One solution is Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV).
Vdsm is its node agent, tailored for its needs.
Agile, KVM-specific.
RHEV is being open sourced.
Vdsm is moving to a more general use case, applicable toother management platforms.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 6 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Why Vdsm(-18)
With thousands of machines, a cluster of hundreds of hosts,multiple storage exports — what to do?
One solution is Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV).
Vdsm is its node agent, tailored for its needs.
Agile, KVM-specific.
RHEV is being open sourced.
Vdsm is moving to a more general use case, applicable toother management platforms.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 6 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Why Vdsm(-18)
With thousands of machines, a cluster of hundreds of hosts,multiple storage exports — what to do?
One solution is Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV).
Vdsm is its node agent, tailored for its needs.
Agile, KVM-specific.
RHEV is being open sourced.
Vdsm is moving to a more general use case, applicable toother management platforms.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 6 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Why Vdsm(-18)
With thousands of machines, a cluster of hundreds of hosts,multiple storage exports — what to do?
One solution is Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV).
Vdsm is its node agent, tailored for its needs.
Agile, KVM-specific.
RHEV is being open sourced.
Vdsm is moving to a more general use case, applicable toother management platforms.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 6 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Place within oVirt
Freeing Vdsm is another step in freeing RHEV-M within theoVirt framework.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 7 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Architecture and Implementation
By Daniel Schwen, from Wikipedia
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 8 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Architecture and Implementation
Written in Python.
Multithreaded, Multi-processes.
Used to speak directly to qemu, now uses libvirt for that.
Speaks with its guest agent via virtio-serial.
Implements a distributed image repository over thesupported storage types: Local directory, FCP, FCoE,iSCSI, NFS...
Maintains that on a multihost system, only one concurrentmetadata writer exists.Scales linearly in data writers.Image-aware API. (import, templates, qcow, raw)
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 9 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Architecture and Implementation
Written in Python.
Multithreaded, Multi-processes.
Used to speak directly to qemu, now uses libvirt for that.
Speaks with its guest agent via virtio-serial.
Implements a distributed image repository over thesupported storage types: Local directory, FCP, FCoE,iSCSI, NFS...
Maintains that on a multihost system, only one concurrentmetadata writer exists.Scales linearly in data writers.Image-aware API. (import, templates, qcow, raw)
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 9 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Architecture and Implementation
Written in Python.
Multithreaded, Multi-processes.
Used to speak directly to qemu, now uses libvirt for that.
Speaks with its guest agent via virtio-serial.
Implements a distributed image repository over thesupported storage types: Local directory, FCP, FCoE,iSCSI, NFS...
Maintains that on a multihost system, only one concurrentmetadata writer exists.Scales linearly in data writers.Image-aware API. (import, templates, qcow, raw)
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 9 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Architecture and Implementation
Written in Python.
Multithreaded, Multi-processes.
Used to speak directly to qemu, now uses libvirt for that.
Speaks with its guest agent via virtio-serial.
Implements a distributed image repository over thesupported storage types: Local directory, FCP, FCoE,iSCSI, NFS...
Maintains that on a multihost system, only one concurrentmetadata writer exists.Scales linearly in data writers.Image-aware API. (import, templates, qcow, raw)
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 9 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Architecture and Implementation
Written in Python.
Multithreaded, Multi-processes.
Used to speak directly to qemu, now uses libvirt for that.
Speaks with its guest agent via virtio-serial.
Implements a distributed image repository over thesupported storage types: Local directory, FCP, FCoE,iSCSI, NFS...
Maintains that on a multihost system, only one concurrentmetadata writer exists.Scales linearly in data writers.Image-aware API. (import, templates, qcow, raw)
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 9 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Architecture and Implementation
Written in Python.
Multithreaded, Multi-processes.
Used to speak directly to qemu, now uses libvirt for that.
Speaks with its guest agent via virtio-serial.
Implements a distributed image repository over thesupported storage types: Local directory, FCP, FCoE,iSCSI, NFS...
Maintains that on a multihost system, only one concurrentmetadata writer exists.Scales linearly in data writers.Image-aware API. (import, templates, qcow, raw)
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 9 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Architecture and Implementation
Written in Python.
Multithreaded, Multi-processes.
Used to speak directly to qemu, now uses libvirt for that.
Speaks with its guest agent via virtio-serial.
Implements a distributed image repository over thesupported storage types: Local directory, FCP, FCoE,iSCSI, NFS...
Maintains that on a multihost system, only one concurrentmetadata writer exists.Scales linearly in data writers.Image-aware API. (import, templates, qcow, raw)
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 9 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Architecture and Implementation
Written in Python.
Multithreaded, Multi-processes.
Used to speak directly to qemu, now uses libvirt for that.
Speaks with its guest agent via virtio-serial.
Implements a distributed image repository over thesupported storage types: Local directory, FCP, FCoE,iSCSI, NFS...
Maintains that on a multihost system, only one concurrentmetadata writer exists.Scales linearly in data writers.Image-aware API. (import, templates, qcow, raw)
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 9 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Architecture and Implementation (-18)
Robustness as a design goal:
Evaporated NFS exports.
Faulty multipaths.
Node crash.
Live-locked qemu.
Internal Python exceptions.
Self-fencing of metadata writer.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 10 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Architecture and Implementation (-18)
Robustness as a design goal:
Evaporated NFS exports.
Faulty multipaths.
Node crash.
Live-locked qemu.
Internal Python exceptions.
Self-fencing of metadata writer.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 10 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Architecture and Implementation (-18)
Robustness as a design goal:
Evaporated NFS exports.
Faulty multipaths.
Node crash.
Live-locked qemu.
Internal Python exceptions.
Self-fencing of metadata writer.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 10 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Architecture and Implementation (-18)
Robustness as a design goal:
Evaporated NFS exports.
Faulty multipaths.
Node crash.
Live-locked qemu.
Internal Python exceptions.
Self-fencing of metadata writer.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 10 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Architecture and Implementation (-18)
Robustness as a design goal:
Evaporated NFS exports.
Faulty multipaths.
Node crash.
Live-locked qemu.
Internal Python exceptions.
Self-fencing of metadata writer.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 10 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Architecture and Implementation (-18)
Robustness as a design goal:
Evaporated NFS exports.
Faulty multipaths.
Node crash.
Live-locked qemu.
Internal Python exceptions.
Self-fencing of metadata writer.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 10 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Host Monitoring API
getVdsCapabilities
getVdsStats
ping
fenceNode
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 11 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
VM Lifecycle API
Il etait une fois... la Vie, Albert Barille
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 12 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
VM Lifecycle API
create
destroy
pause
continue
setVmTicket
changeCD
changeFloppy
migrate (downtime,timeout)
hibernate
hooks
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 13 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
VM Lifecycle API (agent-dependent)
shutdown
desktopLogin
desktopLogoff
desktopLock
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
VM Monitoring API
list
getAllVmStats
getVmStats
Interesting applications installedLogged in usersCPU consumptionMemory usage...
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 15 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Network Configuration API(agent-dependent)
addNetwork
delNetwork
editNetwork
setSafeNetworkConfig
setupNetworks
connectivityCheck
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 16 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Async Tasks API
getAllTasksStatuses
getTaskStatus
clearTask
revertTask
stopTask
(currently used only by the storage subsystem)
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Storage Architecture
A Storage Domain is one of: Local directory, NFS export,VG over iSCSI LUNs, VG over FCP LUNs. Vdsm (tries to)abstract the differences away.
A Storage Pool aggregates several storage domains. Wetry to remove this concept from the Vdsm level.
Single meta data writer:
SPM lease mechanism (Chockler and Malkhi 2004,Light-Weight Leases for Storage-Centric Coordination).Storage-centric mailbox.
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Storage API
connectStorageServer
getDeviceList
createStorageDomain
attachStorageDomain
createImage
prepareVolume
(and many, many more)
repoStats
getSpmStatus
spmStart
extendVolume
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Thin Provisioning and LV extend
Disk image is created as a big empty qcow2 file within a small LV.When the guest writes, qcow2 grows.If qcow2 file fills the LV, guest stops.Local Vdsm senses that, and issues an extend requestSPM extends LV, and returns success messageLocal Vdsm continue guest execution.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 20 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Future
New, stable API. RESTful(?), similar to that of rhevm-api
Current API is not very clean (createVG,createStorageDomain)
Split Vdsm up to reusable autonomous parts.
Spin off as a generic image repository.
SANLock, Vepa, VN-Link, storage network, storagemigration, ??
Other use cases:
Single-hostLinux containers?
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 21 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
Contribution
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=vdsm.git
Ping us on #vdsm at irc.freenode.org:Saggi Mizrahi, Federico Simoncelli, Igor Lvovsky, EduardoWarszawasky, Yotam Oron, Ayal Baron, yours truly.
Come over to see our demo at Andy’s!
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 22 / 23
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Vdsm
DanKenigsberg
Vdsm is Free
What is Vdsm
Responsibilities
Why Vdsm
Architecture
API
StorageArchitecture
Storage API
ThinProvisioning
Bright Future
The end.Thanks for listening.
Dan Kenigsberg (Red Hat) Vdsm August 15, 2011 23 / 23