Fast image cloning support for Xenserver
On a Xenserver host, Openstack gets the image from glance for instance creation. There will be local copies of an image on a given Xenserver if multiple instance (of one image) are created on it.
We can avoid streaming the image and creating local copies by re-using the images that have already been streamed to a given Xenserver host. This can be achieved by using the copy on write feature provided by Xenserver. Copy on write allows an image to be cloned and re-used. Cloning of a disk is almost instantaneous and avoids the overhead of the time spend re-streaming the image.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Vish Ishaya
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- Nova Feature Parity Team
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Devdeep Singh
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for essex
- Implementation:
- Implemented
- Milestone target:
- 2012.1
- Started by
- Vish Ishaya
- Completed by
- Vish Ishaya
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Changes for supporting fast cloning on Xenserver. Implements blueprint fast-cloning-